I thought we were supposed to be getting rid of brain-dead, ill-conceived legislation imposing limits on what time of day we can buy things? I blame Dickens for his absurd Christmas fetishisation…

Most of the people I know who work in big shops are delighted to work on public holidays, since they get paid double time. Admittedly, they tend not to be the unionised shopworkers who lobby against sensible things.

This reminds me: when are we going to abolish the loopy Sunday trading laws? Given that there are more practicing Muslims than Anglicans in the UK, they’re more than a little archaic.