I was going to revisit the surprisingly controversial piece I wrote last Christmas, in which I pointed out that domestic violence, suicide attempts and relationship breakdown peak over the “festive” season, and that the immense work of Christmas is primarily women’s work, unpaid and often unacknowledged. I was going to remind you about the extreme social pressure added to households in poverty by the expectations of Christmas consumption; the way children are weaponised in advertising to make us feel that better parents spend more money; how very hard the coming weeks are for folk with difficult relationships with food and drink.
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