Festive
Cheer leaders
Opera unswervingly believes in the potential for a divine spark in humans, says Robert Thicknesse
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
Two cheers for Trump on free speech
The President-elect cannot just protect speech that he likes
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Don’t marry your cousin
And don’t knock culture wars — they can save lives
Are all Christians monks?
George Guiver’s book exudes down-to-earthiness, bordering on irreverence
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
Labour has a conspiracy problem
Dawn Butler MP should reevaluate her eccentric ideas
Killing time
Parliament is making the world a better place, one death at a time
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
