Of course, the woke millennial liberazis won’t rest until they’ve wrecked Christmas. They’ve already put the kibosh on the work Christmas party by outlawing drunken shenanigans, and they’ve made everyone feel guilty about the annual Yuletide orgy of consumerism, packaging and waste. And now they’ve only gone and ruined Chris Rea’s seasonal classic Driving Home […]

The obvious question to ask, once Love Island host Caroline Flack was arrested and charged with assault before last weekend, was whether she’d be treated any differently if she was a man. The charge against Flack is assault of a man, believed to be her boyfriend, Lewis Burton, in the small hours of Friday, December […]

Last week I got new checks in the mail. It had been years since I needed any; like most people I find myself writing fewer and fewer checks these days. Cutting open the package, I was struck by the fact that where I used to receive a whole box of checks, I now got a […]

Welcome to the latest in my occasional series of conversations about Christianity. Here’s my interview, edited for space, with Philip Yancey, an evangelical Christian writer who has more than 15 million books in print in more than 50 languages. KRISTOF Merry Christmas! And let me start by asking about that first Christmas. Do you believe […]

There are strife-torn parts of the world where surviving childhood is something of a miracle. Thankfully this is not one of them, yet being young, poor and homeless here can be a deeply scarring experience as the story of ‘Ciara’ reveals today. We are one of the wealthiest countries on the planet and our Government […]

A cosy nostalgia is embedded in Christmas marketing every year: be it radio advertisements featuring men sentimentally recalling getting their first train set from their fathers or television ads of families reunited on Christmas Eve. Generally, these soft-focused confectioneries cost fortunes to make, but occasionally a magical narrative is conjured up for a tiny sum […]

Subway crime remains at record-low levels. So it was confusing that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority board voted this week to hire 500 additional police officers to patrol the subway and other parts of the transit system, diverting an estimated $250 million over four years in precious funds that should go toward improving service. While more […]

They say the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house; so no matter how insistent Health Minister Simon Harris is about addressing long-standing inequalities in the health service, there is no credible quick fix. Yet there are good reasons for reviewing our egregious two-tier system. It offers preferential treatment to those who can afford […]

In baseball, three strikes and you’re out. In many US states, the Three Strikes Law applies where a repeat offender has a harssh prison sentence if convicted of three crimes. Here we regularly read of a criminal with multiple – often as many as 50 – previous convictions and they seem to have spent very […]

To the Editor: Re “China’s Blueprint for a Digital Totalitarian State” (front page, Dec. 18): Your reporting on the acceleration of the Chinese surveillance model should set off alarm bells in Washington. The implications are far-reaching, not simply for the inhabitants of the most populous country in the world, but also for those who live […]