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ALEX BELL: Blame Charles Dickens for unleashing a winter ritual of magic versus reality © Universal/Dna/Working Title/Koba Sign up for our daily Politics briefing for political exclusives, analysis and debate. Thank you for signing up to our Politics newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Dickens ruined Christmas for writers. He invented the sentimental form of the holiday, a schmalz-fest for the crippled Tiny Tim. On this eve, what to write about but Christmas? It lures you in, like a shopfront of magic, only to reward you with cliche. Still, here goes. Th...

A Christmas Story I posted this, my favorite Christmas story, in 2012. It harkens back to a better time, or, at least, a more inspiring one. Some years ago, the sportswriter Rick Reilly wrote: You can take all your Tiny Tims and your Grinches and your Miracles on Whatever Street and stuff them in your stocking. The best Christmas story is about a boxer. It starts the day in 1918 when a doctor tells a slender heavyweight named Billy Miske that his bum kidneys give him five years to live, if he’s lucky. Turns out he’s dying of Bright’s disease. This comes as rotten news to Billy, who’s ...