Terry Prone: Indulging insanity for the sake of Christmas traditions

Nobody is ever going to compete to get the first slice of Christmas cake any more than they’re going to fight each other, elbows out, for the first of the Brussels sprouts, writes Terry Prone

Maintaining Christmas traditions requires, inter alia, creating desserts such as plum pudding which we know to be health hazards, while wasting good brandy in order to create blue flames which are neither here nor there. Picture. iStock.

Words such as "brat" may be more popular, in fairness, but I yield to nobody in selecting, as the most boring words in the dictionary, these two: Government formation.

The minute you hear a radio presenter use them, the very second you read them in a headline, despair hits.