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Adrian Hamilton: Anti-Europeanism has become the new consensus

Published: 16 December 2005

Rarely can the EU have been so in need of leadership and rarely has it been so bereft of it

Tracey Emin: My Life in a Column

Published: 16 December 2005

He carries me to the bed and lays me across it. My eyes are opening and closing...

Terence Blacker: Why pornography and free speech are bedfellows

Published: 16 December 2005

Discouraging people from watching sex films through taxation is censorship by stealth

The Sketch: They ganged up on him, but Sir Chris saw them off

Published: 16 December 2005

What a duffing up that was going to be. "Ladies and gentlemen, you see before you, cowering in the dock, the indigenous toad!" What wasn't the committee going to do with the sneering, patronising, reeking, red-socked fop?

Miles Kington: Gold, frankincense and murderous video games

Published: 16 December 2005

You are on a mission to find the king of the world who will save us all. The evil Herod is out to kill you

Johann Hari: The sick joke that keeps the French farmer fat while his African equivalent goes hungry

Published: 15 December 2005

Why are there no protests in France about their government prolonging starvation?

Bridget Jones's Diary

Published: 15 December 2005

'My father hurled himself against the literally flame-haired guest, wrestling her to the ground'

Alex James: The Great Escape

Published: 15 December 2005

Life, the universe, and football

The Sketch: At last - a good word to say about Charlie

Published: 15 December 2005

Eager as always to keep a promise, I have to find something nice to say about Charlie Kennedy (there may not be another chance). I have two things to say. First: he was the finest student debater of his day. Too limited a compliment, you feel? Very well: he was the finest student debater of his year. Second: last week, he produced a question that floored the Prime Minister. We were so excited by the Tory debutant that we missed it.

Miles Kington: Cultural icon or seasonal entrepreneur?

Published: 15 December 2005

The North Pole is just an off-shore address for tax purposes. Most of our work is done in Asian sweatshops

Philip Hensher: We shouldn't be terrified into giving up liberties

Published: 14 December 2005

It might be as well if those in charge of our security could be a little more open with us

The Sketch: They're not lying, just telling the opposite of the truth

Published: 14 December 2005

"Unless we all start to believe in conspiracy theories; that I'm lying, that officials are lying, that Condoleezza Rice is lying..." Our Foreign Secretary smiled urbanely at the committee (it smiled back, I fear).

Miles Kington: Murder in the cathedral: a seasonal ghost story

Published: 14 December 2005

The Japanese visitors were martial arts experts, and they killed the axe-man in self-defence

Miles Kington: 'Tis the season to be non-faith-specific

Published: 13 December 2005

If there is a preponderance of male carol singers, some of them should sing falsetto

Johann Hari: Tortured logic and twisted arguments

Published: 13 December 2005

He saw feet being smashed with axe heads and flesh being burned with lighters

The Sketch: Correct the typos? Pity we can't amend the legislation

Published: 13 December 2005

An amendment order was made to the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act, yesterday, to correct its typographical errors. The cost may have its own line entry in the Budget. Three or four civil servants, a minister, eight government backbenchers, two opposition members, a chairman, a policeman, a doorkeeper, Hansard, and Her Majesty's Sketch all convened in Committee Room 12.

Terence Blacker: I'm feeling sorry for Lady Thatcher

Published: 13 December 2005

It was at this point that Carol, exercising the twin's right of revenge, stepped into the spotlight

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: The betrayal of Richard Pryor's legacy

Published: 12 December 2005

His death marks the passing of a fiery, authentic black American political generation

Bruce Anderson: Cameron need only tell the truth to overtake Labour - that public spending is too high

Published: 12 December 2005

Labour has to come up with an alternative, although Gordon Brown thinks this is unnecessary

Miles Kington: Super sleuth on the case of the exploding vase

Published: 12 December 2005

'Sir Paul Medway?' said Inspector Braid. 'I can think of lots of people who would like to blow him up'

Dom Joly: Goth to golf addict: what's happening to me?

Published: 11 December 2005

There are three Gs to avoid in life: golf, gardening and gonorrhoea. Until recently, apart from a scare in Bangkok, I'd managed to avoid all three. Sadly I fear that my battlements are about to be breached, allowing the mighty River G to flow through.