Culture War on Christmas Trees
Michael Mosbacher writing in the Telegraph (where else aside from the Times or Mail) has claimed that the ‘woke mob’ has declared war on Christmas trees. Expect several hours of ‘debate’ on GB News later.
Mr Mosbacher has visited some of the great cultural institutions of London such as the Tate and found that they either have some other form of seasonal display not involving a tree or nothing at all. Reassuringly he found a tree and lots of Christmas baubles at the Ritz.
His assumption is that a lack of Christmas Trees is due to wokery though he doesn’t seem to have checked. It may of course be down to environmental concerns or simply that trees make a lot of mess with dropped pine needles and then have to be disposed of.
Like so much else at Christmas the tree is an invented tradition. It came to Britain in the early 1840s which may explain why Scrooge got a giant turkey for the Cratchits but not a tree. Dickens published the Christmas Carol on 19th December 1843.
It was Prince Albert who popularised the Christmas Tree with Royal celebrations in 1848.
Mr Mosbacher has clearly failed to notice that the traditional Christmas tree from Norway stands in Trafalgar Square. It a tradition invented after the Second World War and every year people like Mr Mosbacher complain that it looks too much like a tree and not what Prince Albert had in mind at all.
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