It’s coming up to an extremely busy time of year for many people. It doesn’t matter that for most things crammed into one month, they can be spread more evenly throughout the other eleven months of the year. December may allow more free time for people who have holidays from work, but the advance of technology and how our society works nowadays means that the majority of us don’t actually get that well-deserved rest. Fearne Cotton sums it up in her column for Red magazine (December issue, page 51).