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How to have a healthy Christmas
Stay safe and eat sprouts
Spare me your “Books of the Year”
Or, how to come across as a person of taste and refinement in the annual back-slapping fest
Arty types: Gary Lomax
Since the band broke up, Gary’s second career has proceeded in fits and starts
The worst reply guys on Twitter
A taxonomy of tedious Tweeters
Bring on the clowns
PMQs seemed remarkably appropriate for the pantomime season
Why can’t we all wear stab vests?
They are affordable, stylish and surely a small price to pay to uphold diversity and inclusion
Rachel’s Christmas drinks are off
Until we get better numbers in from the Office for Budget Responsibility
I regret choosing a llama-friendly school for Hector
Just meekly approaching Google Classroom burnout …
Oil on troubled waters?
Only two fellow baby boomers required urgent medical attention on an 11-day voyage
Sebastian Mode
Provincial arts administrator
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Giles Treadwell
Old-style literary agent
Critical briefing: energy price shocks
The shocks from the Iran War are yet to be felt, but are sure to be powerful
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
The Mexican baby business
In UK courts, parental orders for children born overseas outnumber those born to surrogates here
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party