From mistletoe and wine to misanthropy and whingeing
Read spiked editor Mick Hume's Notebook in The Times (London).

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‘This year I take the theme of my godless, atheistic Christmas sermon from Luke ii, 14. For those unfamiliar with the pre-Disney original of the Nativity story, this is the bit where the multitude of the heavenly host is supposed to deliver unto the shepherds the classic Christmas message, ‘On Earth peace, goodwill toward men….’
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