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Flaming cocktails, tasty decorations and what kids want for Christmas — rediscover the festive joy of childhood
In the 1960s, this relentlessly English meal included Bisto gravy, dodgy cream liqueurs and straining waistbands — but it was so good
Forget about the traditional turkey roast . . . it’s (almost) all about the sweet stuff
Meringue snowmen, white chocolate wreaths and chocolate, orange and almond fudge
Our ‘Round on the Links’ quiz tests your ability to draw connections. Thinking caps on!
A Q&A with the award-winning Noma chef
‘Recent polls shows most Democrats and young Americans now believe in “socialism”’
‘The option of selecting a line can create uncertainty, stress and competitive anger’
The free food and perks are great, but recent controversy means fewer likes from employees
‘Coming home needs to feel like no big deal to him, even while seeing him after a long interval is a great deal to us’
Clementine or satsuma? Bee Wilson on how these small fruits can divide a family
Alice Lascelles: ‘Christmas isn’t Christmas without the smell of burning in my nostrils and a mild sense of jeopardy’
From a vintage Subbuteo team to a musical biscuit tin . . . here is something for everyone on your Christmas list
Seasonal tipples, from classical structures to something that dances on the palate
From Guy Savoy in Paris to Angela’s in Margate, our critic’s culinary highlights of 2018
Daniel Humm, Anne-Sophie Pic, Ollie Dabbous, Niklas Ekstedt and Judy Joo wave their magic wands
‘In my family, Christmas dinner is the one remaining token of ritual Englishness’
The guitarist and other musicians reveal their secrets for the perfect gig running order
Ezio d’Agostino documents the sources of the tiny country’s outsize wealth
‘Perhaps DeepMind’s powerful AI decided the privacy pledge was best ignored for the wider good of humanity and Sergey Brin’
‘Ridiculously underpriced. Smoky fresh with a lively green streak enriched by a marzipan note’
Introduce exotic dishes. Ban the phrase ‘I don’t like it!’ And never mention dieting
From Sweden to Tasmania, George Koutsakis selects his five favourite whiskies
‘A piece of shortbread is evidence of the existence of God’
‘For most of history, chronological age mattered so little that the song “Happy Birthday” was barely known until 1934’
Chloe Cornish reports on a scheme to make Beirut’s camps safer for families to live in
The true impact of social media? Economists are approaching the question from a different angle
‘A good doughnut should leave you with stains on your shirt and sticky fingers’
Known as ‘Annie’, new software aims to relocate migrants to maximise their job prospects
After years delaying a trip, Lilah Raptopoulos made the emotional journey to her ancestral country
The artist talks to curator Russell Ferguson about turning fragile models of familiar objects into unnerving photographs
For a working-class girl, swinging sixties London made culture accessible for the first time
‘Like teenagers, these trees rarely rise before noon and are prone to lengthy bouts of inactivity’
