Hello and welcome to the TCC Weekly – the Friday bulletin for people who know their Befana from their Ded Moroz.
This is the first Xmas Weekly since 2019 which does not (fingers crossed!) come to you in the midst of a festive season disrupted by COVID-19. Instead, it merely arrives accompanied by a cost-of-living crisis, an energy crisis, a democratic crisis and a war in mainland Europe. But, for the next couple of weeks, we hope you can relax with family and friends and forget all of that.
To see you through the season period we bring you a Christmas stocking of a Charlie’s Attic – packed with political and social goodies. And, poking out of the top, is a yuletide-themed Values heatmap.
Have a fantastic break everyone, and we look forward to seeing you all again in 2023!
With the cost-of-living crisis affecting almost everyone, we wonder if this year will see more people forgo expensive presents, in favour of gifts they’ve made themselves. We thought we’d take a look at which of the three values groups say they like to do this, so that you can work out who the homemade gifts are likely to be coming from this year.
The results are interesting and, to us, surprising. While you might expect Settlers to score highest here – their being more traditional and less driven by the esteem of others – the fairly strong agreement among status-conscious Prospectors is not what we expected. Likewise, we’d have imagined that post-materialist Pioneers might be more amenable to a thoughtful homemade gift than they are!
At any rate, this is festive proof that, even after years working with Values Modes, the tool can still deliver a turn-up for the books!
And finally this week, Charlie's Attic is transformed into a Santa’s Grotto:
Have fun with the World Cup of Microsoft Excel then find out, in advance of this Sunday’s World Cup Final, why footballers lie behind the free kick wall [Ed: Allez les bleus!].
