We learn this week that Halloween is now the third-largest retail event in the UK each year, after Christmas and Easter. It's rapidly squeezing out the uniquely British celebration of Guy Fawkes Day, in another example of the Americanisation of our culture.
Just what is Halloween? Well, in its modern form it involves sending young people onto the property of strangers, to threaten them and get them to hand over something that you want. I just can't imagine why something like that would be so popular in the United States.
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