It’s a Wonderful Life
It’s a Wonderful Life: the perfect Christmas film?
The 1946 classic is a timely reminder that affection and loyalty can surface in the most difficult of circumstances
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
Burying their heads in the ash
The battle against the illicit tobacco market has not been won
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
The SNP is in a Peter Murrell muddle
The Peter Murrell case has exposed the rot at the heart of the SNP’s political culture
Murders for July
Your summer holiday reading is sorted here
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures