Does anyone remember a channel called Sky Travel? It was a satellite TV channel in Britain that showed various documentaries and advertisements for travel destinations, which ran between 1994 and 2010.
Why am I mentioning this? Around 10 years ago, Sky Travel commissioned a dubious piece of ‘research’ to find ‘the most depressing day of the year’. Which turns out to be the third Monday of January, and that’s today. It’s been called ‘Blue Monday‘. Ben Goldacre calls it ‘churnalism’.
Note, this blog post used to be longer, but the original version was lost and isn’t in the Web Archive.