Christmas
The wonder of you
This party season one can very much sport what one wore last Yule
A nostalgic Scottish Christmas
Comfort and Joy is a feel-good film in dark times
Sparkling season
Spend a bit more, and you’ll find that Cava is now infinitely better than it was
Sheer murder? It must be Christmas
Just as Ana de Armas was the heart of the first Knives Out, Josh O’Connor is this one’s
Reasons to be cheerful
A pessimist tries to summon up Christmas cheer
God of God, Light of Light
Christmas should point us towards the eternal truths of the Nicene Creed
Season’s bleatings
Christmas is almost here, but our MPs are not in the festive spirit
A shot of Christmas spirit
The Old Vic’s “A Christmas Carol” is properly affecting
The Bard at Christmas
It is impossible to appreciate Shakespeare without acknowledging his Christian foundations
Blazing a trail
Put your neck on the line with these winter picks
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Deciphering the royal dress code
Fashion, in royal hands, became a form of branding
Like a homecoming
A haunted house
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
Frivolous and doomed
Classicism still has its place at the National Theatre