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Charity shops are for the most part either full of dismal tat; or, are like Oxfam’s specialist bookshops: stocked with the crème of the haute bourgeoisie’s discarded… crème

There was something inherently British about Ngozi Fulani and Lady Hussey's reconciliation

Jacob Rees-Mogg isn’t what he seems

Christmas will be along soon. Celebrate it with this brilliant venison Welly recipe

Boris Johnson - the man who brought himself down not once, but twice

Brussels is gripped by fears that Qatargate might expand, with populists and Putin ready to capitalise

From Westminster and European parliament to film and TV, test your knowledge with our fiendishly tricky quiz of the year

This is achievable. However, it will take an effort which seems alien to those in public life

England may do better in the future if their fans and media stopped going into every tournament fixated on the past. As is often the case, attitudes need to change

There isn’t a member of the cast who isn’t firing on all cylinders but, at two-and-a-half-hours, this portrayal of telesales women feels much too long

The play divides critics, but this production will convert any punters

The former prime minister is plotting his return to power after May's local elections

Leaving the EU has left the wine import/export business with a shocking hangover

A backlash against looking perfect on social media has led to “goblin mode” becoming the word of the year

The melodious singing by Wales fans at the World Cup reminds us that their language was around many years before English

Can this British mercantile mentality ever be changed? Or perhaps the EU is simply better off without us

An eagerness to put ourselves on the ‘right side’ is reassuring. But dragging the dead before a moral tribunal is pointless

We are talking about Christmas and excess is the order of the day: give me a juicy Cumberland and wrap it in thick bacon

Britain can no longer avoid the blindingly obvious. But our leaders seem intent on doing so

As Sherlock Holmes put it: we see, but we do not observe. This needs to change or we risk repeatedly confirming our prejudices

The government are still asking the wrong questions and finding the wrong answers about migrant crossings

As Christmas approaches, things don't quite feel festive. What can the government do to rally the troops?

Brexit was always going to be a recipe for the long-term decline of London as a financial centre Any ideas that suggested otherwise were ludicrous

It paints a picture of post-Brexit life that Michael Gove and others don’t like. But what if America’s leading newspaper is right?

The National's Christmas folie de grandeur is simply unforgivable

This adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel is funny, seditious, intelligent, courageous and beautiful

Less of a political slogan and more of a statement of fact, Britain's decline under the Tories is now recognised well beyond our shores

Earlier this year, MANDRAKE advised the shadow health secretary to pose some questions in the Commons about what a drain on resources Genomics England was. Yet, he never asked a single question

What does Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter really have to do with our 21st-century complex over free speech?

Forget the rejoin label, we need to start again with our rhetoric