30 Dec 2019 - 12:00am

Our modern parenting is making monsters To make children constantly choose is to abdicate one’s responsibility for being a parent

Giles Fraser

27.12

2019: the year the West wised up to China Xi Jinping is not leading the nation on a path of slow evolution towards liberal democracy

John Gray

27.12

How liars become leaders There's a reason books such as <i>Gone Girl</i> and <i>The Girl on the Train</i> have been so popular this decade

Polly Mackenzie

27.12

Is the ‘epidemic of loneliness’ fake news? The health impacts of increasing isolation are being doomily exaggerated

Tom Chivers

27.12

Meghan and Harry are playing a dangerous game The Duke and Duchess of Woke shouldn't raise the subject of 'unearned privilege'

Douglas Murray

26.12

The dangers of festive over-indulgence As Stephan Guyenet’s <I>The Hungry Brain</i> demonstrates, capitalism is cooking up food to reprogram our appetites

Tom Chivers

26.12

How I was cancelled by Doctor Who The BBC has been taken over by the woke — and this mania has infected the institutions of public and cultural life across the West

Gareth Roberts

26.12

The town that should shame our politicians Once proud Lowestoft has been abandoned to its fate

Paul Embery

26.12

Lessons from 2018: the year of uncivil society We mustn't let 'policy laundering' stifle public opinion

Mary Harrington

26.12

2017: when the US woke up to its drugs shame The decline of the American dream was perfectly illustrated by addicts dying in their thousands

Ian Birrell

25.12

For Iraq’s Christians, this year might be their last Sixteen years after the disastrous invasion, and two years after ISIS were defeated, the community faces its end

Reine Hanna

25.12

2016: the Great Pivot Year Our correspondent imagines what future generations will make of the year western society turned on its axis

David Goodhart