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Spoiler: we end with walks covering Legal London.

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LinkedIn offers me the chance to have my posts rewritten using AI. There is a promise of enhanced engagement. Inspection shows the deal to be £0 for a one month trial. Don't know how much after that. This might sound arrogant, but I think I will take my chances.

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I write this item on the eve of the US Presidential Election, and will not change it whatever the outcome. I do not always agree with Lionel Shriver's views, but she writes incisively.

It is fun watching right of centre political commentators settling into five years of bitching against the Labour government's policies. Charles Moore had spotted the 'leather-lined wellington boots' worn by Steve Reed, the new Defra Secretary, who is piloting legislation to ban trail hunting. 

Lord Moore is not amused at the Government's decision, but takes comfort from noting that the boot brand is 'Chasseur'. Moore interprets this in terms of the hunting lobby doing the chase; I fear that in truth it is Moore's clan that is being pursued. Tally Ho...

So many have a view, with varying degrees of knowledge of the Middle East. The mainstream media are challenged over their objectivity in reporting. 

American Riviera Orchard. Literal me wondered where was this Orchard on a Riviera somewhere in America.

I was not getting it. Neither, it appeared, were the punters, with The Times reporting that five months after launch the Duchess of Sussex's lifestyle vehicle had yet to put any products (kitchenware; jellies; drinkware; jams) on the shelves.