Letters: The sick now resort to drastic measures to get treatment through GPs
Plus: British-made steel; vital school libraries; Baroness Deech on the BBC; Met Office catastrophising; and Eton's obscurest club
Plus: British-made steel; vital school libraries; Baroness Deech on the BBC; Met Office catastrophising; and Eton's obscurest club
Plus: Attacks in the Red Sea; the point of university; prejudice in cricket; operating music; and an NHS that can’t compete with Amazon
Plus: Standing with Taiwan; a ceasefire in Gaza; stressful headlights; the cost of visiting a cathedral; and tunes to live by
Plus: Britain and the Houthis; Tory Rwanda rebels; ruinous insurance rises; give wood-burners a break; and a canine bon viveur
Plus: Net-zero targets; obstacles to palliative care; remembering JPR; dogs in hotels; and why not all musical genres are created equal
Plus: How the MoD failed to stop the rot in the Navy; assisting suicide; dog-friendly hotels; heating old houses; and an abundance of olives
Plus: Chris Skidmore and energy security; Armed Forces recruitment failure; using computers in exams; and Sir Rod Stewart’s socks
Plus: The end of the SNP; a fight for a meadow; British Airways’ shame; driverless cars; and missing out on the Jimi Hendrix experience
Plus: Post Office injustice; flood chaos; Nicholas Winton's heroism; heating beautiful old homes; and surprising encounters in a small world
Plus: A junior doctor writes; strange meetings; control for the dying; a time of abstinence; is darts a sport?; and driving delusions
Plus: Overhauling the NHS; the threat from AI chatbots; palliative care; Turkey’s allegiance; and the true meaning of MBE
Plus: Asylum claims; setting doctors' pay; why politicians can't communicate; new year's resolutions; and unexpected meetings abroad
Plus: Clueless HMRC; the decline of motoring; brutal British Airways; the perks of daily walks; and Denmark’s naval oaks
Plus: Churchill's lager; dignity in death; Royal Mail mess; EV range; and travelling across Canada via memory lane
Plus: What it means to be a Conservative; pain at the end of life; threats from AI; junior doctors’ pay; and Churchill on champagne
Plus: Scrapping inheritance tax; junior doctor strikes; the West's duty to Ukraine; Sinatra's shtick; and how the Queen Mother ate asparagus
Plus: Sir James Dyson and growth; shame on James Cleverly; the problem with barristers' cab-rank rule; cats and birds; and festive rum sauce
Plus: modern GP services; invisible cyclists; Keir Starmer in uniform; unfair road tax; cats in the garden; and cracker classics
Plus: pothole problems; speaking to Jesus; the trees that built the Navy; and a superior Christmas stuffing
Plus: Western dithering over support for Ukraine; councils raking in cash via LTNs; teaching tax to teenagers; and how to blow out a candle