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On the latest Planet Normal podcast, which you can listen to using the audio player above, columnists Liam Halligan and Allison Pearson are joined by columnists Tim Stanley and Con Coughlin to look back at 2023 and look ahead to what we could expect in 2024.

On the latest Planet Normal podcast, which you can listen to using the audio player above, columnists Liam Halligan and Allison Pearson are joined by historian Matthew Parker to discuss his latest book, ‘One Fine Day: Britain’s Empire on the brink’, and some of the nuances of colonialism.

Well, I held out as long as I could against the abomination that is the chocolate Advent calendar. What is wrong with the youngsters of today (Part 37) that they need a sweet treat to induce them to open one of the 24 windows in the countdown to Christmas? I have fond memories of my younger sister and I fighting bitterly over whose turn it was to peel open the little cardboard flap before we left for school, revealing an angel, a shepherd or the baby Jesus in his manger. Each picture was a tiny,

On the latest Planet Normal podcast, which you can listen to using the audio player above, columnists Liam Halligan and Allison Pearson are joined by Professor of Engineering at Cambridge University, Michael Kelly to discuss the realities of the UK achieving net zero by 2050.

On the latest Planet Normal podcast, which you can listen to using the audio player above, columnists Liam Halligan and Allison Pearson are joined by Stephen Pound to discuss what a Keir Starmer future government could look like.

One of the reasons I loathe the Marks and Spencer Christmas advert is its contempt for tradition dressed up as liberation. One woman torches the Christmas cards (you know, the cards that would bring so much pleasure, particularly to elderly relatives who still appreciate things they can open and touch). Another throws all the party hats we wear at Christmas lunch on a fire – although that scene was cut after someone suggested the burning red and green hats resembled the Palestinian flag.

Falling inflation put a spring in the step of Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement today but as Shadow Chancellor Rebecca Reeves said, voters will be asking ‘Do me and my family feel better off after 13 years of Conservative government?‘

The only occupation I want to end is that of the UK by those who put on a display of anti-Semitism after some of the worst crimes imaginable

Former home secretary wants ministers to have power to ‘hire and fire’ by making political appointments

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