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As a new year dawns, Alan Bennett reminds us what it means to live through the calm before a storm.

I warned nearly a decade ago that our Continent was headed to destruction. Our leaders carry on regardless

‘In the midst of war, raging and roaring over all the lands and seas, creeping nearer to our hearts and homes, we have tonight the peace of the spirit.’

When the world’s most successful writer honored Harvard with a commencement speech, she reminded us all what imagination can do.

It is especially important not to do Mary’s talk with the Archangel Gabriel in a ‘character’ voice

For the past 45 years, the Revolutionary Islamic Government in Iran has been the main destabilizing force in the region, against pretty stiff competition.The ayatollahs have colonized vast swaths of the Middle East, though you won’t hear the dolts on American college campuses hollering about that.

The great novelist told the class of 2005: Education isn’t about success. It’s about humility.

It’s troubling that Britain should have welcomed the leadership of a sordid, terrorist-supporting statelet

I just can’t see how any person in their twenties or thirties is expected to get on the property ladder

The only thing that made Harris’ message different from a late-night conversation with a very drunk friend was that at no point did Harris actually say “I love you guys” and then burst out weeping.

Six days after JFK was assassinated, LBJ brought hope to a broken nation with a powerful Thanksgiving address.

‘I can’t emphasise enough what a bad idea it would be for the UN to use the transition to attack Israel’