Digested week: who gets to keep their gong? Let the public decide | John Crace

<p>There’s a dirty election campaign on the way and my clothes smell of skunk, but I’ve got an idea to cheer us all up</p><p>We last went abroad for Christmas back in 1989. That was the year my wife and I decided we might be ready to start a family and we wanted to treat ourselves to one last mega holiday before we were too broke and too tired to enjoy it. So we went to Australia to visit friends and family for two and a half weeks, spending Christmas Day on the beach outside Melbourne and Boxing Day at the Test match. That last outing might not have been quite Jill’s idea of fun. This year we went off to Minneapolis to see our daughter. Anna has been living in Minnesota for five years now and what with lockdowns we had never got round to a Christmas visit. So it was about time.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/12/digested-week-who-gets-to-keep-their-gong-let-the-public-decide">Continue reading...</a>