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Letter from the editor: 4 January 2011

Blimey, it's a bit of shock, isn't it? And I'm not talking about the rise in VAT. Or the double episode of The Archers. Or, indeed, Manchester City being joint top of the Premier League. No, for a large part of the working population, today signifies something much more of a jolt to the system: the return to paid employment after the Christmas break. Offices, factories and workplaces all over the nation will resound this morning to reunions of colleagues. "How was it for you?"; "Did you have a good one?"; "What presents did you get?" ; or, in my case, "Did you get your wife any good receipts?"

There is, however, another refrain that will be heard here and there: "I'm glad to be back at work!" That's not usually meant as a sour reflection on the precious family time we have during this period, it's spoken more from weariness of the consumer-crazy, calorie-guzzling, sofa-slumping aspects of the Christmas holiday, which, in my opinion, seem to intensify with each year.

So, we've made it through to the other side, and now we're ready to be much better people. Thinner, fitter, more sober, more socially conscious, less materialistic, and better husbands (the last one's obviously just a personal one). Yes, we're up for a spot of self-improvement. I had my last alcoholic drink for six weeks yesterday. For sure. No messing around. And then as soon as I'd taken the last glorious sip of my pint of Guinness, and waved adieu to a faithful companion, I had a text message from a friend who's going to New Zealand for a year on Thursday. Come to a farewell drink, the message implored. But I've just said farewell to drink! I can't possibly go back now. Or can I?

I now realise what the resolution bit of a New Year's resolution means. Please, God, stiffen my resolve so that I may not be the weak-willed, lily-livered pathetic excuse for a human being that I clearly am. Oh, I'd forgotten the other thought for the New Year: greater self-esteem! Welcome back to work, Britain.


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