Introduction

Get 12 issues off the spectator for just 12 pounds when you subscribe this christmas. You can get a free bottle of tattinger champagne. Just go to spectator dot colo k four slash celebrate. This week we'll hear from laura prendergast on why she's planning to party hard this Christmas. Christopher house on those helping to preserve the uks mediaeval churches. Lionel schreiver on the covet heretics she admires most. Peter hitchins on christmas in russia in the last days of the soviet union. Anna lumley on getting the keys to the sistine chapel. And caroline more on how ghost stories became a brit