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In Charles Dickens’ famous 1843 ghost story, A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet to Come. However, we do not need supernatural powers or a ghostly escort to travel in time to holidays past, present and future, at least not in our minds. The ability to remember our past and imagine our future relies on the uniquely human gifts psychologists call retrospective and prospective memory. What memories are we thinking of as we head towards a holiday season unlike any we’ve had before? What memories will we think bac...

Here are a few excerpts from the article that is, in xanthe's opinion " total crap!" IMHO these excerpts indicate the article is not total crap. On masks, lockdown, managed isolation and a centralised Public Health Agency, he has lobbied for new and more innovative measures to fight Covid-19 and ultimately succeeded in getting the Government on-side. Perhaps his greatest achievement, however, was convincing the Government to go for elimination. " It was so easy to turn the tap off. They finally regulated the allowable levels of Campylobacter in chicken and our rates halved in three months....