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
Books to look forward to this year
There is a great deal to look forward to this year, and hopefully not that much to dread
We must get serious about being intolerant of intolerance
History is clear: excepting blasphemy from freedom of expression causes far more and far greater suffering than it prevents
His race is run
ASH Smyth remembers Ben Cross, Harold Abrahams, and the impact Chariots of Fire had on his 10-year-old self
Woo-woo wins out
I’ve succeeded in keeping Will in London… for now
Starting pistol
Brexiteer anger is beginning to spill over into actions
Is British democracy poised to become a more equal fight?
Will equal sized constituencies redraw the electoral battle map?
A local lockdown for local people
You can’t have a Whitehall farce if you close the Whitehall Theatre
Why contemporary feminists are wrong about policing children’s television
Once we start using the political concerns of the adult world to moralise about the imaginative realm of children, we’re in trouble
Perhaps Black Lives Matter was right about the nuclear family
James Jeffrey explains why he won’t be signing up for a BLM-mandated commune anytime soon
Stonewall take another hostage
The head of Ofcom thinks it’s “extremely inappropriate” to have guests that disagree with trans activists