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 ...

How did we get here? By Wolfgang Münchau Unless something unexpected intrudes, Vladimir Putin is on course to win the war in Ukraine. His troops are now within military spitting distance of the city ...

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

Political sentimentalism was never enough to overturn patriarchal beauty standards. By Sarah Manavis There is one word that best describes the language of the body positive movement since the 2010s: ...

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 ...