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’Tis’n’t the season to be jolly

A fun-loving atheist's take on Christmas.

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David Waywell
Dec 19, 2024
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’Tis the season to get hot and frothy about it being the season to be jolly.

Yes, less than a week away from The Big Day when the more enlightened among us will be recovering our Government Gateway ID passwords to do our online tax returns. As I tell friends, it might be a miserable way to spend the holiday, but the alternatives could be so much worse. Mince pies with Aunt Gretta and Uncle Timothy and his nasal whistle are not everybody’s idea of festive fun.

Gavin and Stacey will be on the BBC on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, giving us not one but two chances to remember how much we hate the loathsome James Corden, followed by a “special” Mrs Brown’s Boys to remind us how much we hate humanity which has turned out to be a terrible experiment in organic chemistry and somebody should have pulled the plug on the primordial soup before these monstrosities crawled onto land.

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