"There is risk in not spending Christmas with my elderly parents" - my latest Telegraph column

Dec 20, 2021

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Updated: Jun 10

"In this, the strangest of years, I’ve even changed my Christmas song. Usually it’s Fairytale of New York on Boombox repeat, but this year it’s Should I Stay or Should I Go?”

Read the rest of my latest Telegraph column here

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