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Cartoon: The Night Before Christmas

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See inside the Merry Crisis edition

“Former UK prime minister (3,5)” Photo: Carl Court/Getty

Cross words, Nat Cs and a tax attack: the best of your letters

For our final letters pages of 2023, a selection of our favourite missives of the year. Thank you to all who wrote in

A colourful sunset over military graves in Kharkiv cemetery, Ukraine, in March. The military section of this large graveyard is almost full as many soldiers fighting in the war come from the city. Photo: Paula Bronstein /Getty

Images of the year

2023 has been a tumultuous year around the world, filled with conflict, controversy and historic firsts, alongside hopes and fears for the future