Artillery Row

Christmas doesn’t have to be cancelled

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

A fanatic heart

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

Wolf in sheep’s clothing

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

The Scottish Conservatives – what is the plan?

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

John Longworth: My role in Brexit

…and why I broke away from Nigel Farage

Murder stories for December days

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

Time for the Covid-19 protest kiss

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

Getting a television changed my life

Living without a TV had several notable side-effects: we’d read more, and sometimes, even have conversations

Data limits

It appears Kier’s tiers’ fears draw near

The extraordinary life of Jan Morris

The end of one writer’s life as a vivid dream