OF all the bizarre professions a man might adopt, Podsnap had chosen to work as a designer of application forms: for jobs, for credit, for club membership, you name it. He died on the operating table ...

Mr. Podsnap is the caricature of a purse-proud and pompous Englishman — perhaps Dickens’s finest caricature, enormously exaggerated, of course, but yet true in the groundwork of it.

And it's a book with heart - the stories of petulant but vulnerable Bella Wilfer, traumatised and gullible Georgiana Podsnap, and the resourceful survivor Lizzie Hexam are all powerful journeys of ...

JOHN PODSNAP is a minor character in Dickens’s last completed novel,“Our Mutual Friend”, but he is impossible to forget. He is convinced that England is the best of all possible countries ...

John Podsnap is one of Charles Dickens’ minor characters. Mr Podsnap, we learn in Our Mutual Friend, “was well to do, and stood very high in Mr Podsnap’s opinion”. He “was quite ...

After spending years painting the media as the “enemy of the people,” Donald Trump is ready to intensify his battle against the journalists who cover him, David Remnick writes.

Mr Podsnap was in no doubt whatever about the reality of a constitution that nobody could actually see: ‘And Do You Find, Sir,’ pursued Mr Podsnap, with dignity, ‘Many Evidences that Strike You, of ...

Podsnap is moved to invoke a murky Providence as the source of his precious constitution, because he cannot point to any human agents or, indeed, to any specific document. Nor, of course, can his ...

Podsnap’s views reverberate around the Tory world. Gavin Williamson, the education secretary, told a radio audience that, among various nations under discussion, Britain is “a much better ...

Airbus getting ready to fly away, Brexit means "f– business," the rebels that are pussycats and rediscovering John Podsnap. "In the absence of any clarity, we have to assume the worst-case ...