Christmas
Candles in the cold
Hopeful thoughts in dark times
A hellhole Noël
Stalag 17 followed by Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life is an ideal festive double-bill
The twilight of British Christianity?
In the dimness of the secular gloom, the Christmas message shines brightly
Ghosts of Christmas past
Why Brits love their yuletide horror
A winter of missed content
Is Britain going to be over by Christmas? Will our brave author survive the coming frost?
No room at the premier inn
Britain is fully booked this Christmas and won’t be accepting any more lodgers
Norse mode
How John Gabriel Borkman is a hard Ibsen play to like
Mistletoe and whine
What is the real reason for the season?
How to drink port without the storm
There is nothing more agreeable than a glass or two of fine vintage port at Christmas. As long as it agrees with us!
Happy Gothmas
Get your festive Morticia Addams on
Down the primrose WPATH
Responsible medical authorities must reject the dangerous nonsense of gender-affirming care
Jolyon’s little investigation
Questions have emerged about the founder of the Good Law Project’s approach to privacy
Good cops and bad spies
Intelligence services as portrayed on-screen are pretty ghastly places to work
Postcards from before the war
It is no longer possible to reflect upon Israeli culture as if the “Question of Palestine” could be brushed aside
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
Smartphones are not the source of all social ills
Phones and social media are easy scapegoats for our all too human follies
The Boy who never grew old
Eric Ravilious’s ethereal watercolours chime with today’s sensibilities
All in the family
Most likely, we live in a comfortable nest of light fictions
Do hurt people hurt people?
This popular cliché attempts to be generous but ends up implying that victims are tainted
The arts are under threat in Scotland
New legislation endangers freedom, but the arts have been enabling its suppression for some time
The lies of Sinn Fein
Sectarian smears against Unionists have been exposed as the falsehoods they always were. Will anyone bother to say sorry?
