This coming Christmas, more than any other I remember, is being beset with doom and gloom in the media who seem, as one, intent on having the kind of miserable time once reserved purely for the Eastenders Christmas special.
If it's not bird flu killing all our turkeys, or supermarkets hiking prices of Christmas essentials (perhaps as a result), it's the looming "credit crunch", falling consumer confidence and an imploding housing market which the media faithfully inform us all mean we'll be making do with a piece of coal in our stockings this Christmas. (And don't even get the Mail or Express started on Eastern European types eating our swans and carp.)
On top of the weightier issues I've also lost track of the number of Christmas-themed 'political correctness gone mad' stories, from a ban on nativity plays and flammable angels wings to local councils banning Christmas decorations.
Not to mention the charity Christmas carollers who have been hit with a bill for copyright infringement.
Of course the media is only telling it like it is (with a nod towards the fact 'doom and gloom' makes for better copy), but what are the chances of a little lightening of the mood before the 25th?
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