Christmas doesn’t have to be cancelled
A Covid Christmas could be the right time to introduce new festive traditions
Celebrating Rosh Hashanah in lockdown
The coronavirus pandemic continues to disrupt the traditions of Jewish festivals
What would Terry Pratchett have made of 2020?
Hard graft and moral clarity were central to the Discworld author’s success
Fake news, Roman edition
Twisted tales are as old as time
Justice warriors
Nick Cohen says pounding the streets brings its own rewards
Boris Johnson: a quarterly report
Vaccination may have saved Boris Johnson from voters’ vengeance for Britain’s Covid disasters, but he’s not out of the woods yet, warns Nigel Jones
The Road and the fork-tongue rogues
Minoo Dinshaw fills in the gaps in an official guide to Scottish history
Who doesn’t want to be a millionaire?
Dominic Hilton contemplates the origins of his obsession with money
The thinning khaki line
What does the defence command paper reveal about Britain’s priorities for its armed forces?
Heavy weights and hurty words
Simon Evans says Andrew Doyle’s book is the toolkit you need to think about at least one side of this debate
Who regulates the regulators?
Now in power, Vote Leave politicians have forgotten about the Electoral Commission
Tragedy of the little Darlings
The relationship between J.M. Barrie and the real life Peter Pan was fatherly, friendly and perhaps something else
A Covid bounce?
The election results on Thursday haven’t proved lockdown sceptics were wrong
Race to the bottom
Although highly qualified, the views of UN race academics must be resisted