Ben has distilled our piece, renamed London Tide, round probably the most modern components of Dickens’ passionate and campaigning prose. London seems as the primary mega-city, in which there’s little trickle down of its monumental wealth, held in a fraction of its elites, and an increasing underclass make a residing in a nineteenth Century gig financial system, from handbook labour to dolls’ dressmaking and even physique retrieval from the river.