PETER HITCHENS: Merry? No, this year we need an Angry Christmas!

This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column

Some of my past Christmases have gone spectacularly wrong, from the festive point of view. In 1989, I spent Christmas Eve courageously hiding under my bed in a Bucharest hotel, as tracer bullets whizzed by my window, and the snowy city echoed to the sound of crazy gunfire.

Christmas Day wasn���t much better and when I eventually made it home I promised my family and myself that I���d try not to let that happen again. But how can you tell?

That p...