Goodwill to all men

How can you tell when it’s truly the start of the Festering Season? That month that’s supposed to be about “Goodwill to all men”, “Peace to the World”, and all that shit?

It’s when you see about Church carol services being cancelled after councillors don’t get the best seats or at least ones they feel is commensurate with their supposed position. It’s when you see that Santa has been banned from appearing in two Leicester hospitals. And it’s when a war memorial gets defaced and covered in pro-Nazi graffiti.

Welcome to Advent.