Humiliation of Spurs Is a Tradition That We Can All Count On

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AT A TIME when the old rituals are under such sustained threat that nine out of 10 Christmas cards apparently don't mention Christmas (I say apparently because I can't do this research myself; there are four cards on our mantelpiece, and two of those are from Indian takeaways), let's all get behind one tradition we can unashamedly relish.

I refer to the one a renaissance painter might know, after the Adoration of the Magi, as the Humiliation Of The Spurs.

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Humiliation of Spurs Is a Tradition That We Can All Count On

Each mid-December, three faded stars appear in the sky, or at least on Sky, to foretell this midwinter festival. One asks the other two to jigg...

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