It has festive treats, Christmas carols, decorations and costumes – as well as death-defying stunts, a wise-cracking and foul-mouthed hero, an inimitable villain, an ending that…you have to watch for yourself – and a cottage industry of argumentation over whether it is in fact a Christmas movie. John Phelan in American Experiment writes that Die Hard is that, plus a lot more besides – with a core character and message that inspires conservatives to stand tall.

A Spite That Knows No Bounds
Gratingly awful global scold Greta Thunberg’s latest stunt is to turn on her own motherland. Sweden has been very good to her, but the former social-democratic paradise’s mugging by the realities of uncontrolled immigration do not sit well with the keffiyeh-clad rabblerouser. “For years, Sweden took more asylum seekers per capita than any other country in Europe,” writes Fredrik Karrholm in The Spectator. “Now asylum numbers have fallen to their lowest level since 1985.”


