Richard Curtis’s Christmas Carol

December comes in, Richard Curtis comes on. And for that dizzy month, when you go out into the world, you are able to believe that, twinkling in the lights over streets, “love actually is all around”. It feels wonderful, and you vow to treasure this knowledge in the year ahead. But the resolution is hard to keep – you might even have made it last year too. To hold on to the wisdom of Love Actually or About Time we must understand it: what does Richard Curtis know – and how did he learn it?