Merry...er

It's often said the Oliver Cromwell banned Christmas.  Of course, he did not (and could not) do any such thing.  What he did was to ban the celebration of Christmas.  And his spirit apparently lives on - a school in Yorkshire has cancelled Christmas celebrations on the basis that the whole thing has become too commercial and that, if the students want the ban lifted, they will have to convince their RE teacher.  Watch this space.