If MPs felt the cut to foreign aid was today’s worst news then they were not listening

First have Christmas, then pay for it

The prime minister sees himself as the greatest unionist that has ever occupied Downing Street, yet it is he who is bringing the Union to the brink

A Covid Christmas could be the right time to introduce new festive traditions

On the 50th anniversary of his public suicide, Nigel Jones reflects on the strange life and bizarre death of the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima

What are we supposed to do when “Brenda the sheep” gets hungry?

Douglas Ross is proving a better critic of Boris Johnson than of Nicola Sturgeon

…and why I broke away from Nigel Farage

Jeremy Black makes his way through the British Library’s Crime Classics collection

You don’t have to rush the Bastille to regain some freedom; a French kiss will suffice