It’s bad form I’m sure to put a second consecutive post from the same person but Charlie Brooker does know how to skewer the shallowness and depressing nature of advertising with some humour – certainly better than me ranting angrily about it for several lines! Here is his article about the glut of ’emotional’ xmas TV ads currently being chucked out by the large chains.

Check out Life Squared’s free publication Xmas² for ideas on how to avoid too much commercial nonsense at Christmas.