QOSHE - Alison Rowat: A not so silent Sunday as business leader issues warning for 2025 Just as Christmas seems to start earlier every year, so does the great rush to get away. With the Commons in recess from December 19 and the Scottish Parliament officially heading off two days later, the Sunday politics shows were among the first in the media to shut up shop. BBC1’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg marked the occasion traditionally and politically with a glorious rendition of Silent Night by the German baritone Benjamin Appl, and an interview with the Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, about Labour’s plans to “smash” the people smuggling gangs.