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16 December 2022

The woke brigade isn’t cancelling Christmas

Complaints about Christmas inclusivity are designed to stoke grievance and division.

By Jonn Elledge

Mike Chubb is the most influential cultural figure you’ve never heard of. Every year at this time we debate or deride his work. Every year, his legacy receives vast acres of newsprint.

That’s because Mike Chubb is the man who invented Winterval. This unassuming council administrator is the man who stole Christmas. 

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