Thomas Gradgrind - from Hard Times - is one of Charles Dickens's coldest characters and is the twelth in the Telegraph pick of the best Charles Dickens characters. Granada's critically acclaimed ...

A man of realities. A man of facts and calculations. A man who proceeds upon the principle that two and two are four, and nothing over, and who is not to be talked into allowing for anything over.… ...

While some writers like to imagine what Plato would have said about the Googleplex and other aspects of current society, when it comes to life regulated and shaped by data and algorithms, Charles ...

Thomas Gradgrind, in Dickens’s novel Hard Times, is obsessed with unambiguous facts and numbers. When I asked a press officer at HMRC for an estimate of how many “open cases” it plans to write off, ...

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Dickens’s 'Hard Times' feels newly urgent as a classic reply to hustle culture, exposing how facts, work and usefulness can crush imagination, tenderness and human worth today too easily now.

Simon Jenkins’ attack on the test culture imposed on our schools by the government is right (A Gradgrind ethos destroys good schools, 26 October) – except that it destroys all schools. The pressure ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. IN 1853, Charles Dickens was concerned that the circulation had dropped for his periodical Household Words. To stem declining readership ...

Deborah McAndrew puts an intelligent new slant on a classic novel as Northern Broadsides add extra oom-pah Charles Dickens’s 1854 novel of life in a northern English mill town opens in the schoolroom ...

Sissy Jupe, from Hard Times, is a one of Charles Dickens's fine sorrowful characters and is the fourth in the Telegraph pick of the best Charles Dickens characters. Gradgrind in Hard Times identifies ...