In the modern era, is this sort of attack on fire? Not all environmentalists because there's a big debate about this wood business. People weren't allowed to have fires or have bonfires around me because they were worried about that. And in this crisis of energy, we could kind of all do with at the moment is an open fire in our homes but we've had them all taken away. Another Christmas tradition which is seen in some quarters as sort of vulgar is that thing where people decorate their house with loads and loads of lights. It actually tastes that. The Christmas tree here, you know, everything's dead. So it's obviously natural to bring greenery inside. My Christmas
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers and Flo Read sit down with founder of The Idler magazine, Tom Hodgkinson, to discuss the fraught history of the winter festival and the moral good in having a merry Christmas.
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