Enough moaning. Our destiny is what we make it

Let's all look forward with a Jewish sprit of hope

Hope in a Prison of Despair; Evelyn de Morgan, 1887

On the last edition of BBC Radio Four’s Moral Maze before the holidays, my co-panellists and I discussed whether there was a right to Christmas.

This was before the crisis over the new strain of the virus. At that stage, the tightening restrictions and fear that “Christmas might be cancelled” were causin…