We speak your mind. Enjoy free-thinking comment that champions your values. | | If you’re lucky enough to find a moment of calm today, gather your loved ones and challenge yourselves to our 2025 Christmas Quiz.
Split between the five rounds, it includes the big moments of the year, arts and culture, sports, “who said it” and some fiendish festive facts.
We’ve included some of our favourite questions below, but click the link to play the full quiz. It’s free, so why not share it with your friends and family to see if they can top your score? 10 of our best questions
1. In which city did Oasis kick off their record-breaking reunion tour this year?
2. What year were Christmas crackers invented?
3. What had Celia Imrie done just moments before in this iconic clip from Celebrity Traitors? 4. Which of these 12 Days of Christmas gifts is incorrect?
a) Seven geese a-laying
b) Five gold rings
c) Ten lords a-leaping
d) Three French hens
5. The royal house movers have been busy this year, but where have the Prince and Princess of Wales moved?
6. Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has joined the cast of a Christmas pantomime – but what is the show a parody of?
7. In January, Luke Littler became the [what] world champion in darts history? 8. Which politican blamed “legal advice that [they] received” for their failure to pay a £40,000 stamp duty bill?
9. The phrase “Nothing beats a Jet2 holiday” is probably ingrained in your consciousness after this year – but why?
10. Who was on the panel with Gary Lineker for his last episode of Match of The Day?
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Continue reading ➤ | | | When London grinds to a halt on Christmas Day, its open-top tour buses keep moving – carrying tourists, families and an eclectic cast of characters. Our reporter joins one festive loop to see who’s on board, and why Dec 25 has become one of the capital’s strangest working days. Continue reading ➤ | | | After all your hard work on the turkey, your beautiful bird deserves to be handled with care. Here is our easy-to-follow guide – complete with pictures – to carving up a turkey. Make sure to catch the juices! Continue reading ➤ | | | BBC One/iPlayer, 3.10pm The Scarecrows’ Wedding A new animation based on one of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s much-loved picture books has become almost as traditional as plum pudding. This heartwarming tale, of two devoted scarecrows whose wedding plans go awry, is as charming as any. Rob Brydon, Jessie Buckley, Domhnall Gleeson and Sophie Okonedo provide the voices. BBC One/iPlayer, 8pm Call the Midwife Christmas Special It’s 1970, so the idea of long-distance air travel shouldn’t be a shock, but it’s still a surprise to find the sisters of Nonnatus House, so rooted in Poplar, upping sticks and heading to Hong Kong for Christmas. Not that they’re away on a festive jolly. A deadly landslide in Kowloon has wiped out one of the nuns’ colonial outposts. Help from the mother country is desperately needed to tend to the sick, the wounded and the soon-to-give-birth. BBC Two/iPlayer, 9pm; also available on Disney+ Jaws (1975) For those who’ve already had their fill of tinsel and festive cosiness, escape with the film that, 50 years ago, terrified a whole generation. Steven Spielberg’s film remains one of the most revered blockbusters of all time. Roy Scheider plays a police chief desperate to kill the great white shark terrorising his East Coast resort and its ailing holiday economy – but he's gonna need a bigger boat. BBC One/iPlayer, 9.15pm Amandaland Christmas Special Possibly the funniest thing you’ll see over Christmas, this festive special finds Amanda (Lucy Punch) and clan – including mother Felicity (Joanna Lumley) – heading out to the sticks for a “traditional” Christmas dinner with Aunt Joan (Jennifer Saunders). Here, some shocking revelations about Amanda’s origin story emerge.
The full guide to what to watch on TV
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Gone is the calm, and instead you find yourself sandwiched between your slightly-too-tipsy sister swigging yet another glass of fizz and your rambling uncle who clearly left all grace and tact in his own home.
But with these difficult personalities also comes advice on the actions to take, from a gentle chat with your ungrateful cousin to calmly shutting down unsolicited relationship advice from your aunt.
Read on to find the seven people you’ll encounter round your table this Christmas – and a psychotherapist’s tips on how to deal with them.
Read the full piece here ➤ | Breaking bread Every weekday, Orlando Bird, our loyal Reader Correspondent, shares an off-piste topic that has brought out the best of your opinions and stories. Orlando writes...
Good morning, and a very happy Christmas one and all. Wherever you are – and whether you’re catching some early-morning quiet before festivities commence, sitting amid the debris of an unwrapping frenzy, persuading your loved ones to go for a “bracing” walk, getting ready to go to church or (my personal preference) sinking into a sofa with a glass of something sparkling – I hope you have a wonderful day.
To those putting in a shift in the kitchen later (as I am), I wish you strength. What’s on the menu? In recent days, there’s been much discussion among readers about one accompaniment in particular, a medieval mainstay that now tends to divide the crowd: bread sauce. Personally, I don’t really see the appeal (though it’s possible I’ve only had bad batches; I take it that it’s not supposed to glue your mouth shut). Many, however, have rallied to its defence.
Julia Smith writes: “Yay for bread sauce: a tradition in our family. I can remember making it under instruction from my Gran in a beat-up old porringer to go with roast chicken or a large duck at least once a month, and it is an absolute necessity with turkey at Christmas.”
Phillip Hay adds: “I spice mine with cloves, a cinnamon stick and cardamom. Beautiful Christmassy aromas.”
For Mark Murray, context is crucial: “Bread sauce is obligatory with the following poultry: turkey, capon, chicken, guinea fowl, pheasant, partridge and woodcock. It is not to be recommended with goose or duck, which require a citrus element in the accompanying sauce.”
In the sceptics’ corner is John Mulvany: “Bread sauce was historically just a way of filling people up with anything other than protein. My elder sister (who couldn’t cook) insisted on following the family tradition of making the stuff. My other sister (who can cook) and I (who can cook) were both ambivalent. The best thing about it was the solitary bay leaf.”
F A McWeeney is similarly unpersuaded: “My mother always made bread sauce, but I’ve never been a fan. I do make apple sauce when we harvest the apples from our tree, and freeze it for Christmas. It’s slightly tart but not sour.”
Bread sauce or no bread sauce, enjoy your meal (we’ll save the “lunch or dinner” debate for next year). I’ll be back tomorrow to bring you the best Telegraph talking points. In the meantime, you can contact me here. Please confirm in your reply that you are happy to be featured and that we have your permission to use your name. | | Find as many words as you can in today’s Panagram, including the nine-letter solution. Visit Telegraph Puzzles to play a range of head-scratching games, including PlusWord, Sorted, and Quick, Mini or Cryptic Crosswords.
Yesterday’s Panagram was BOOKPLATE. Come back tomorrow for the solution to today’s puzzle. | | 1. Cardiff
2. She farted
3. 1847
4. Seven geese a-laying
5. Forest Lodge
6. Wicked
7. Angela Rayner
8. It became a viral meme
9. Alan Shearer and Micah Richards
10. Youngest | | |
Thank you for reading. Have a fulfilling day and I hope to see you tomorrow. Chris Evans, Editor
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