Clive James: ‘My behaviour at the Christmas table is based on hard-won learning’

For years, I took it to be mandatory that I should be as entertaining as possible, so as to ensure being given first crack at the goose’s legsNot enough research has been done on the close relationship of our gathering for Christmas dinner to the classic waterholes of the world’s great deserts. Even the omniscient David Attenborough has been slow to examine the connection. In his current multi-part survey of the planet, there is a constant theme hammering: the deadly danger