The National Emergency Briefing outlines the need for urgent action to address environmental crisis, says PAUL DONOVAN, warning that there’s no time to indulge the arguments of the fossil-fuel-funded climate-change deniers
There seems to be a sort of end-of-term mania sweeping the country this week. From peers to politicians to pastors they've all been at it.
Christmas is of course a time when we look back and reflect on what has gone before, so here goes.
We've had bent lords a-leeching, vain MPs chiselling, late greaseballs preying, serving coppers lying, sacked Serco whining, live spooks a spying, more fawning berks, three dense Lib Dems, a slew of Tory twerps and apartheid deniers on the TV.
Peter Murrell’s weakness for the allure of prestige goods is symptomatic of modern consumer culture, says MATT KERR
SYMON HILL looks at Tommy Robinson’s bid to use Christmas to spread division and hate — and reminds us that’s the opposite of Jesus’s message
‘Honest’ Tom Wharton’s 1682 drunken rampage through St Mary’s church haunted his political career, but his satirical song Lillibullero helped topple Catholic James II during the Glorious Revolution, writes MAT COWARD


