Blue Monday is nonsense. Here are three reasons to be cheerful

Take one look at the formula used to predict ‘the most depressing day of the year’ and it falls apart pretty quickly

Noooooooooo!! We’re not even through the first month of 2020 and we’re already hitting the most depressing day of the year. I mean, talk about don’t start as you mean to go on.

And no, I’m not talking about Brexit, though surely that would trump this, or at the very least be a close contender. This is nothing to do with Megxit either. (Yay! A comment piece with no mention of Megxit. Well, errr, nearly. Doh!). And to all you New Order fans out there, this has nothing to with the group’s rather fantastic but gloomy track of the same name.

So anyway, I’ll put you out of your misery, or rather dump you straight in it... if you hadn’t already guessed, coming up is Blue Monday, the third Monday of the year – a day that in 2005 a certain Dr Cliff Arnall (who? Exactly!) calculated to be the most depressing day of the year. He did it using the following formula: