New Year honours should reward achievement, not cronyism
Forget the Downton Abbey flummery – let's honour remarkable citizens who truly deserve it, not entrench the class system
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Forget the Downton Abbey flummery – let's honour remarkable citizens who truly deserve it, not entrench the class system
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We asked columnists what fills their dreams about the year ahead – share your wishes in the thread below
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There is an idle habit I picked up in childhood which I have never quite shaken off. I suspect there are other JC readers who share it too. When confronted with any kind of list of the world’s nations, my eye runs an instinctive, involuntary check to see if Israel is among them. Flags flying outside a hotel or along a boulevard: I look for the blue and white. In the lobby of an airport, where ‘welcome’ is spelled out in dozens of different languages: I search for the distinctive script that says Baruch Habah. Those bars where the enterprising landlord has collected the world’s banknotes under glass: I won’t rest till I’ve spotted the head of Moshe Sharett or SY Agnon.
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There is an idle habit I picked up in childhood which I have never quite shaken off. I suspect there are other JC readers who share it too. When confronted with any kind of list of the world’s nations, my eye runs an instinctive, involuntary check to see if Israel is among them. Flags flying outside a hotel or along a boulevard: I look for the blue and white. In the lobby of an airport, where ‘welcome’ is spelled out in dozens of different languages: I search for the distinctive script that says Baruch Habah. Those bars where the enterprising landlord has collected the world’s banknotes under glass: I won’t rest till I’ve spotted the head of Moshe Sharett or SY Agnon.
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You don't have to be a Christian to see the appeal of this season. Jews, Muslims and Hindus are getting in on the act
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As the political year draws to a close we review the year in Westminster. It ends with a new allowances furore in the House of Lords after a Conservative peer was filmed clocking in to claim his £300 day rate – then clocking straight out again. Lord Hanningfield says he was unwell when he was filmed – and that in any case, much of his parliamentary work can be done from outside the confines of Westminster.
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Cameron is hemmed in on both sides over airport expansion. Oh to be China for a day and be rid of this paralysing democracy
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Maybe it's because white-collar jobs are often the butt of the joke, but we are forgetting too many victims of the downturn
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Sport is no different from politics. There is a syndrome that means it's all but impossible for one star to follow another
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The two societies share many problems. Despite the temptation to seek authoritarian solutions, Indians still cherish self-rule
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