20th December 2018 - The Glasgow Guardian



The Christmas Dinner Debate

20th December 2018

Dylan Tuck Deputy Culture Editor – Food & Drink   In an attempt to bring harmony to our festive dinner tables, Food & Drink Editor Dylan Tuck explains the best (and worst) components of the divisive Christmas Day Dinner Christmas. The time of year where you can eat your own body weight in chocolate: a ...


Breaking with tradition on the festive screen

20th December 2018

    Inanna Tribukait Reporter Every year, there is this Christmas feeling all around. Or maybe it’s just the multiplication of Facebook notifications and posters for screenings of It’s a Wonderful Life, Love Actually and The Grinch. From your arthouse cinema to online platform, it’s invariably the same titles on offer every year. As wonderfully ...


Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell stop

20th December 2018

    Hannah Patterson Writer As December rolls around, our hearts, minds and radio stations are filled with Christmas spirit, and we’re graced with some classic tunes to bring us into the festive season. However, to keep the balance of the universe, there seems to be an equal number of Christmas tunes that make you ...


Diversity in December

20th December 2018

  Theodore Wilcocks Writer With growing diversity in Britain, should we perhaps pay a little more weight to other holidays around the winter season?   Bodhi Day, Pancha Ganapati, Hannukkah, Human Rights Day, Kwanzaa, to name but a few. What’s missing from this list? Of course, it was on the tip of your tongue: Christmas. ...


Unwrapping Dickens’ A Christmas Carol

20th December 2018

  Emily Hay Books Columnist “It may interest you to know that it isn’t only in the financials that Dickens somewhat resembles the pre-reformed Scrooge: he also seemed to find it impossible to practice that compassion that he so preached.” Do you wail when shops put out their Christmas stock in October? Do you despair ...


Christmas as a Non-Christian

20th December 2018

  Julia Hegele Theatre Editor Christmas is, without question, the most wonderful time of the year. Lights are twinkling, presents are being wrapped, insane amounts of food and drink are being consumed in the name of festivity – who wouldn’t want to be a part of that? However some of the most avid Christmas revelers, ...