Merry Christmas to all who celebrate, and good tidings to everyone else — my gift to you is one last sack full of links to send off the year. Mx Tynehorne’s Link Roundup®™ will return in 2023.

• Tom Scott fesses up to a mistake
• The state of Tennessee adopted an official “Bicentennial Rap” in 1996. This has never been repealed. It’s everything it sounds like it would be.
• Kate Bush’s annual Christmas message
• The folklore of winter
• ’Tis the season for giftgiving, so why not buy a piece of Russian figher-jet shrapnel impaled on the state symbol of Ukraine?
• How the hajj might change alongside its climate