Thank you - I'm glad you liked it!
I think people have forgotten Santa Claus' ferocious origins, things like Old Nick and the Krampus, he's definitely a judge first and a present-giver second once he's decided who deserves them.
Also, I'm sad and do actual research when I'm writing near-future stuff. I used to work in the Whitgift Centre, and the Raven is a new design of drone that British Aerospace are just starting to design for the RAF. Did you spot how they lost them ? The rapidly repeating high pitched interference tone was the sleigh bells as Santa zipped past them on the way from the North Pole to Croydon 😁