We play the Christmas music through the holidays, Thursday 21 December, the year of

Lord 2023. Welcome back to the War Room. I'm going to bring in all three.

Don't those...

The carols and we could play hundreds of these.

But from the 19th century, maybe the early 20th, but definitely from the 18th and 19th century,

don't they show a culture that's confident in themselves,

these complex and beautiful.

I'll start with Rahim and then I want to hear Brett and

Ben before we get down to the more mundane topics of geopolitics and money.

Rahim First, that's one of the reasons I love the Christmas season. You play these

these carols that are just absolutely incredible. Your thoughts? Yeah, well not

just that and you're absolutely right about that but they also show you know

know it more than about the nation but about the civilization right this was a this was a him that was

constructed off the back of a 300 year old Finnish poem I think it was that itself

went on the back of a another 300 further year old Carol that was being

or song that was being sung and that was predicated on the story of a 10th century bohemian king

King wenceslach and of course, the only, not to put a lump of coal in the stocking, as Andy Big said last night,

but the only statue to St. Wencesloss now in the world is in Prague and unfortunately we have terrible news

coming out of Prague this morning with what's happening there and that is kind of everything

coming home right the chickens coming home to roost because that's where it started, that's how it started, that's what it sounded like, and the carnage today is quite some way away from that.

We'll come back to that in a moment. Ben Harnwell, your thoughts.

I think Rahim said what I was thinking. It shows a confidence in a civilization, a confidence in a culture

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