Do you think now we're in a sort of puritan period? Or, I mean, if there was a riot now, which side would you be on? And do you think the Mary England is currently being suppressed and needs to be released? Or do you think there's plenty of it? It's really hard to say because we do also celebrate Christmas. You know, Christmas is a sort of period for license. But the sensible cultures allow this kind of spirit to bubble up every now and then. They don't smash it down.
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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