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4th January. A weekend supplement promotes '24 easy ways to be healthier this year'. Another lifestyle piece suggests that if you are on a train and a child behind you repeatedly kicks the back of your seat, then you should not remonstrate but should meditate on your own childhood.

Enough. 

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I can only reproduce verbatim this hilarious message via LinkedIn from Checkatrade:

'Fancy getting more local work?'

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.