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In today's newsletter: Homelessness as a lifestyle choice, extreme sex ed and Rishi Seven Bins' Sunak - we round up the best of 2023's culture war chaos

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Good morning. If the season of confected fights over phantom Christmas-haters isn't the right time of year to reflect on the impact of the culture wars, I don't know when is. In 2023, as the Conservative party ran out of ideas, voters and halfway plausible candidates to replace the latest prime minister, they naturally intensified their interest in the next best thing: picking weird symbolic fights about nothing anyone really cares about that might garner a bit of coverage in the Daily Mail.

You have probably lost track of these, what with everything else. Today's newsletter therefore brings you a seasonal review of 2023's most risible political pantomimes, and at the end, you can gratefully say that it's behind you. Here are the headlines.