A rundown of the year, from Charli XCX and Jeremy Clarkson to the incumbency curse and floods in Valencia.

You might have missed it in amid the non-stop travails of the Labour government, but Kemi Badenoch is not doing well. Week ...

Donald Trump has promised he'll achieve peace in the region. We'd be foolish to believe him.

I saw the final (but is it?) episode of Gavin & Stacey a few days before most at a star strewn screening in a flashy London ...

And thus Chanukah, which usually takes place somewhere between late November and mid-December, so all eight nights are done ...

Is it possible to believe that love actually is all around? By George Monaghan December comes in, Richard Curtis comes on. And for that dizzy month, when you go out into the world, you are able to ...

As an extension of Carrie Bradshaw, she straddles the middle and high brow. By Ella Dorn The literary world is in uproar because the Booker Prize has its newest celebrity judge. It’s Sex and the City ...

Not everyone has a family to return to at Christmas. Those of us who do shouldn’t take it for granted. By Jonn Elledge “It is with a very heavy heart,” then prime minister Boris Johnson told a press ...

Keir Starmer is paying the price for failing to distance himself from a Corbyn-era promise. By David Gauke It is the season of goodwill and all that and one should try to end the political year with ...