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In amongst the personal limitations, upsets, doom-scrolling and separation from loved ones, many of us are starting to see that we’ve been freer, more open and grown more this year. When the Collins Dictionary picked ‘lockdown’ as the word of the year for 2020, they tapped...

In history, there have been periods so bleak we’ve called them the ‘dark’ ages. What makes 2020 different? Not the scale of the disaster, nor the nature of the pandemic, but the one thing that’s stopped it being a “dark” year.

It can be easy to forget that every tradition was a response to current conditions, and that what we do this year will become traditional by the end of the decade. We all know that this Christmas will be like no other we’ve lived through...