Suzanne Harrington: If you want to escape the hell of aggressive Christmassing, just leave civilisation

"How can you detach when Christmassing is shoved so squarely in your face? When the shops and telly have weaponised I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day and turned it into reality, so that for a chunk of the year there is no escape from it?"

Suzanne Harrington, at Santa school a few years back.

Ah, the early onset Christmas ads, blaring into our sitting rooms from early November, persistent as chlamydia.

The corporate mini-films are designed to suck us in, representing something that doesn’t exist. Playing us like Pavlov’s dogs with access to ApplePay.