Human affections, and the spirit of the season, can make paradise of a clerk’s lodgings
The new version of A Christmas Carol, written by Stephen Knight, creator of the period drama, Peaky Blinders, is awful on lots of levels
The genius of Dickens was to make us see how human affections, and the spirit of the season, can make paradise even of a clerk’s lodgings in Camden Town
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