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Amid economic gloom our political leaders are laying claim to the Blitz spirit. They should also remember what happened to Churchill after the fighting stopped writes Matthew d’Ancona

Nigel Farndale tries to persuade his children that shivering is good exercise as he recalls a time of using the family tractor to cut through snow drifts.

On the 200th anniverary of Louis Braille’s birth former Home Secretary David Blunkett salutes a man whose ’secret text’ has become a lifeline for the blind around the world

Do you agree that nonprofit community clubs should be granted a rebate over drainage charges?

A personal and passionate appeal to save small volunteer clubs threatened by a potentially devastating rise in their water bills.

Labour’s multiculturalism poses a dangerous threat by pushing the white working class to the margins.

Music no longer comes in symphony or album length but in bitesized excerpts.

Those worried about Australian flu should start by getting the lingo says Oliver Pritchett.

After Britain’s toughest year in Afghanistan our defence correspondent argues that the public needs to be convinced that the campaign in Helmand is worth fighting

Che Guevara is regularly portrayed as a revolutionary icon but in reality he was a coldblooded murderer says Nigel Jones.

Vicki Woods is glad Hazel Blears has finally woken up to the needs of white workingclass boys but says their future is brighter than you might think.

Before too long there is going to be chaos in the eurozone argues Simon Heffer.

Backroom girl in Churchill’s Cabinet Office who briefed the top brass and recorded the lighter moments of the war.

Hopes are pinned on Obama to fix the crisis but without strong leaders on either side he doesn’t stand a chance.

Actress whose beauty brought Bmovie fame in the 1940s and whose comeback in 2007 saw her tipped for an Oscar

Pete Irvine on staging street party in Edinburgh for 100000 revellers.

In January 1909 Lloyd George introduced the first state pension to Britain but the pretence that the Government can afford to pay for it is wearing thin.

Michael Simkins is left philosophical after a strange New Year’s Eve encounter.

We in the West have enjoyed an unprecedented freedom to travel and run our own lives and an absence of world war pandemics and famine argues Charles Moore.

While millions of cashstrapped people shave to dig ever deeper into their pockets train operators are quids in writes David Millward.

Will this be the year that the office ‘No Email Day’ - when employees are banned from accessing their inbox - finally takes off? Paul Clements has been there done that - and thinks not

Our cashstrapped Government may be tempted to flog the forestry commission but at what cost to the environment asks Charles Clover.

Telegraph view: A new chapter in burger marketing comes with the launch of the Little Mac.

Telegraph view: Vladimir Putin has sent an ominous message to his neighbours as the global balance of power shifts.

Telegraph view: Gordon Brown made no mention of the malign impact of welfare policy in his New Year message.