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This year, you may enjoy spending a few moments of Boxing Day last weekend’s Financial Times ‘Life of a Song’ column, in which Helen Brown examines the history of ‘We Three Kings of Orient Are’.

I suspect describing someone as ‘of Orient’ would be deeply offensive these days, but I liked the article for its straight-laced headline (‘Popular carol has been subject to mischievous variations’) and also for its intriguing final line:

Today my own teenage son, raised in Essex, rejoices each Christmas in a version which ends with the Magi “necking Stella Artois”.

It’s sure to raise a Boxing Day smile.

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