Christmas
Christmas doesn’t have to be cancelled
A Covid Christmas could be the right time to introduce new festive traditions
2020: It’s no place for the old
The debate over Fairytale of New York is proof that 2020 is the year in which woke doctrine went into overdrive
‘Tis the season to be Zooming?
After months of misery and lockdowns, the prospect of losing Christmas would be disastrous for so many
Crucified again
Marcus Walker laments the new antisemitism
Party pieces
Thomas Woodham-Smith sees out the antique year
Don’t marry your cousin
And don’t knock culture wars — they can save lives
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
Bluesky thinking?
The honeymoon phase of the X alternative could be short-lived
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
Exilic yearnings
Miklos Rozsa: violin concerto (LSO Live)
One of the greats
Bathos, fatalism, heartbreak: these are the pillars of a MacColl song
An open letter against assisted dying
118 academics oppose the Leadbeater Bill
British universities should stop using foreign students as a crutch
Its short-term benefits are obvious but it is not a long-term solution
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
Violence is a feature of porn, not a bug
Aggression towards women permeates the most popular pornography
