"After a year such as this, even shocks now fail to surprise"

"After the Brexit vote I was thrilled by the feeling of being on the right side of history"

"If this man makes America great again, I will eat a sombrero"

"The UK has had an overvalued currency since monetarism became the fashion in the 1970s"

"The president-elect deserves the benefit of the doubt"

Donald Trump says he wants the US to be energy-independent. Opec should take heed

Gogol's The Nose is mesmerisingly surreal

A recent resolution passed by Unesco denies the Jewish significance of the Temple Mount

We should encourage more young people to take up apprenticeships, not force them into universities

The war poet Leslie Coulson has been undeservedly forgotten