Christmas was banned in Scotland by the Presbyterians. The Reformation saw it as a popeish superstition, says Lord Tebbit. And so maples were kind of put up by Satan - they said Christmas was a satanic festival.
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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