Tracking all the way: Santa Trackers help us keep tabs on the most important global circumnavigation of the year

Gone are the days when Santa travelled incognito with supernatural stealth. Thanks to digital technology, the jolly old elf now has his Christmas journey closely monitored, writes Ed Power

When I was a kid, Santa Claus travelled by night and with supernatural stealthiness. Every Christmas Eve he would creep into the room I shared with my brother and, like a magical Deliveroo agent, drop off his urgent consignment of Fisher-Price sets and Star Wars figurines.