very slowly until mid-January) is the Economist's traditional "Christmas Double Issue", designed to get the staff of a weekly magazine a week off during the drinking season.However, in the American edition, as delivered to Peter Brimelow recently—he's been a subscriber for years—the "Christmas Double Issue" is a " Holiday Double Issue": However I looked online at the Economist Asian edition and the Middle East and Africa edition, and in spite of all the non-Christians in Asia, the Middle East and Africa, they get a Christmas Double Issue, which I believe they still get in the UK: That means that the