Even the Grinch can find some joy at Xmas

This is our last issue of the year. Christmas is here, my friends, and it is — more to the point — soon going to be over. That means your least favourite columnist can give up thinking of pithy yuletide nonsense for a few weeks, and return to his typewriter when everyone around me has rid themselves of that special type of holiday excitement that my wife would call childlike, but I, more accurately, would call childish.