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• DON’T waste time devising New Year resolutions to break.

Better use your energy before Friday preparing a multi-purpose soundbite ready for the day in 2021 when you are approached by a reporter with a microphone and asked how you feel about the big news of the day.

I’m afraid I’m adopting one I heard on the BBC News this week as my very own: “I thought things were getting better, and let’s hope they do, but if it gets really bad, we’re going to be in serious trouble.”

Perfect!

D WARD,
NW1