I’m with the Revd Dr Peter Hearty on this one.

Christmas should be no more, but the hedonistic midwinter festival of gluttony and other excess preserved. We could rename it “Winterval”. [er... Ed.]

For a period of four, possibly five months around the winter solstice, the Imaginary Magic Friend should be banished by edict, carol singers summarily shot, Salvation Army musicians entombed in their bunged-up tubas, effigies of Graham Norton stuck on yule trees across the land, and bishops held under house arrest for the duration, with no access to telephone lines to the BBC.

You know it makes sense.