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8 November 2011updated 26 Sep 2015 9:46pm

On Winterval and the Mail

Politicians like Eric Pickles have bought into this bogus mythology. No longer.

By Steven Baxter

All my Christmases have come at once with an early gift from the Daily Mail‘s new Corrections and Clarifications column. “We are happy to make clear that Winterval did not rename or replace Christmas,” the newspaper writes today, in response to reader complaints about a Melanie Phillips article.

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