Christmas is Dead

Every single night, in the days and weeks before Christmas, the evening news featured someone or other representing the hospitality sector or retail; hoteliers, pub owners, restaurateurs, shop owners – people linked by class and marriage to the decisionmakers in government – telling of the woes endured by business through lockdown, as though their suffering bore the slightest relation to the suffering endured by the thousands in this country who have perished from this sickness and the suffering of their families – most of whom couldn’t even attend their loved one’s death beds or funerals. The dial on the media manipulation was turned up to full volume to ensure we could ‘save Christmas’ by easing the restrictions, opening the bars and cafes and restaurants and what have you, and getting the cash registers on the high street ringing like the bells on Father Christmas’ sleigh in time for a good ol’ fashioned family Christmas.

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