Worried about buying the perfect present? A Chancellor of the Exchequer had the right idea – leave it till the last minute
My favourite day of the year is 27th December. Christmas is over, Boxing Day is done, and, if you have planned it properly, 27th December can be all yours. No visitors, no emails, no phone calls. A day to yourself to do as you please, finishing up the leftovers (the leftovers, in my experience, somehow tastier than the original thing) and dipping into those books you’ve been given to decide which you are going to keep on the bedside through January and which need to go straight into the charity box or the re-gifting drawer. My second-favourite day is 24th December. In my late teens in the late 1960s, I got to know the great Iain Macleod, One Nation Tory and mentor to many of my generation of aspiring politicians. In the run-up to Christmas 1969, Macleod explained to me that the only way the busy thinking man should do...
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