Three carol services in one day, and I can't wait!

Do you like your name? Mine could be worse. It does mean ‘defender of the people’ which I try to remember whenever I go to a council meeting. There are many Alistairs I look up to – Alastair Campbell (much less so), Alastair Sim (the best Scrooge, more so) – but in 2024, it’s only the 592nd most popular name, and alas declining. Of course there are countless different spellings: Aleister, Alastair, Alister. If I’d had my way, I’d be Alasdair. Unfortunately, my parents didn’t hear