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Select your favourite Guardian article for a G2 special issue

The cheat's guide to Christmas
From gourmet seafood starters to exotically stuffed turkeys and hand-decorated cakes, this year you can buy all your food ready made from the supermarket. But do these time-saving dishes taste any good? Top chefs test the supermarket Christmas dinners

'I'm wildly emotional - in a very quiet way'
Yisrael Campbell is not your average Orthodox Jewish comedian - he was born a Catholic, for a start. Now starring in the Guardian's new Sounds Jewish podcast, he talks to Tanya Gold about booze, finding God and his four circumcisions

A cold, cold Christmas
Unfriendly teachers and pupils made early schooldays a misery for Martha Jean Baker. After a mishap with a Christmas tree she was left frightened and humiliated by the school head. But she was to get her revenge ...

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Is community the most overused word in the language?
Michael Hann: If you've got something to say, and there's more than one of you, you're a community

Why men should give party shirts a miss
Simon Mills: Don't be tempted to wear 'party' clothes to the Christmas office do. It looks desperate, uncool, irritatingly chipper and unforgivably Brentian

Missing Cranford already? There's plenty to read by Mrs Gaskell
Kathryn Hughes: If your only knowledge of Cranford is the hit BBC production, you're going to find reading Mrs Gaskell's original text a bit of a shock

The question


Will the skiing be better this winter?
Could it possibly be worse? Last winter's heatwave was disastrous for many European resorts, especially early in the season.

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Patronising, embarrassing, lurid - the high street stores have got their Christmas ads all wrong
Charlie Brooker: In Tesco's ad Posh Spice becomes the first human being in history to be out-acted by a shopping trolley

Style


A signature look for the party season
Ask Hadley: Prom dress for the Christmas party | Sunglasses in winter

The close up
Baroness Lola Young, cross-bench peer

Arts


The Arts Council has 7,500 sculptures - why can't we see them?
Germaine Greer: When the suggestion is made that the collection should be unhoused and distributed across the land for us all to see, hands are thrown up in horror. We, the people, might touch the works.





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