Supply-chain woe, looming Covid restrictions, Boris Johnson in charge: Christmas may be weird again, but let’s try to enjoy it
Well, we’ve done it: we’ve successfully navigated the goth autumnal chicane of Halloween and Bonfire Night, and now, crackling distantly in the air, can you hear it – a jingling of the bells? Christmas looms, and though in traditional years even mentioning the C-word at this point in November might instigate a round of groans (and, in shop workers, an electric jolt of Mariah Carey-shaped PTSD), there has been a notable loosening of the law: Christmas trees have already gone up, lights adorn the exteriors of houses, mince pies have been consumed. Is this normal? No. Has anything about the past 20 months been normal? Also no. These two things are connected.
I do not know if you recall last Christmas, or if it’s just been balled up into the brown plasticine wad that is remembering the last almost two years your life, but it was, historically, one of the most underwhelming Christmases on modern record. Boris Johnson announced an inter-tier travel ban in England about 100 hours before Christmas Day itself, leading to a mass of people rushing to train stations to desperately travel to the home counties before the ominous midnight gong forbade them from doing so.
Joel Golby is a writer for the Guardian and Vice, and the author of Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant
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