We wish you a merry… ?

So, if you’re one of those first readers at the DoubleTree by Hilton Warsaw, with the magazine in one hand and a glass of bubbly in the other, you can now turn your thoughts from celebrating this year’s top achievers to the next celebration on the horizon: Christmas. I say ‘Christmas’, even though in your case, the festivities at this time of year might not have a Christian or even religious significance for you. But I’m not hung up on insisting that it should always be referred to by that name or that it has to be observed in a specific way. And I say this at the risk of adding further fuel to the tiresome culture wars that currently rage about what the day should always be called. But I do want to examine what the true meaning of “Christmas” might be. Yule in Northern Europe and Saturnalia in pagan Roman times certainly preceded the institution of Christmas prior to the Christianisation of the continent and the subsequent absorption of their