Christmas with JAM On It

Jamie Wrench reflects on comfort, guilt and acts of kindness

by Jamie Wrench 22nd December 2017

I’ve always been a bit of a misery guts about Christmas. It’s all so frenetic, so nervously celebratory, so… insincere. And this year, there’s an edge to it. Austerity is biting. Brexit is proving to be a shambles. Firms seem desperate to make a lot of money over Christmas so they can stay in business, and I suspect a lot of them won’t. It’s almost as if things are getting so bad it’s my duty to cast aside my curmudgeonly attitude and get down to some serious celebration. Like bran flakes, it won’t taste nice but it will be good for me.