[rmccullo]

What I get from this article, besides some prime examples of the nanny-state apparatus in a full-court press, is that many Britons are living in fear. Fear of themselves more than anything else.

[escapefromboston]

Christmas isn't our main festival Mr.Muslim it's Easter, but thanks anyway.

I am guessing no religious person, no matter what faith, is offended by any other religious person celebrating their holidays.

[Paul Atreides]

In Clydach, on the outskirts of Swansea, the local council has banned festive lights in case they electrocute vandals.

Someone explain to me the downside of electrocuting vandals.

[Edgerunner]

Looks like Scrooge is winning in Britain...to bad for them...

[wildcatf4f3]

The men of the RAF in '40 are gone.

[JesseHousman]

"We respect the rights of Christians to celebrate their main festival."

How kind of these agents of satan.

[Unam Sanctam]

Santa

Shouldn't that be Father Christmas over there? Why don't people value their traditions? There is no need to import crass American commercialism of "Santa" when you have the beautiful Father Christmas legend famed in song and story.

[beaversmom]

Some of London's biggest stores have abolished Santa's grottos, fearing they could act as magnets for pedophiles.

Savage had me laughing on Friday's show. He was talking to a Santa in New York and started talking about how he never really liked Santas. He said you could smell the alcohol on their breath or you feared they were deviants. "One blink from your mother and you could end up butchered in a basement!"