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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Helen Coffey

Why New Year’s Eve is actually the best night of the year to go out

Forget Netflix and chill: Make 2026 the year you go out for New Year's Eve - (Getty/iStock)

Oh, I’m not fussed about New Year’s Eve. I never do anything, I’ll probably be in bed by 11pm!”

While I’d begrudgingly tolerate such words from my septuagenarian mother, these days it’s just as likely to be a twenty-something who is giving me the world-weary “I can’t be doing with New Year’s” schtick.

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