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I’ve finished my Christmas shopping. You can do this when you have no extended family you care about and no friends at all. Strong recommend.
If you start cutting off the latter (begin by accepting no invitations to Christmas parties is my top tip) and arguing with the former (if you do so in the run-up to 25 December then really get into it over the turkey dinner then you will get maximum estrangement bang for your bellicose buck), by this time next year you too will be in a position to do a quick dash to M&S for a new blue jumper for mum, buy some online gift cards for all the under-18s, pick something concordant with your personal budget from your sister’s email full of links to desired items from Wolf & Badger, choose a book/contribution to his latest stupid hobby for your husband and then sit back and relax with a boxful of peppermint creams while you apply yourself to the important business of searching the internet for the perfect new beds, outfits, toys and treats for your pets. Happy Christmas 2026 to you all.
Collins Dictionary has announced its word of the year. It is two words, which seems about right in this faithless, degenerate age. Those words are “vibe coding”. What do they mean? Well, in one sense they mean the practice of telling AI what you want your computer to do and then having it write the code necessary for it to do so. In another sense, it means we have all lived too long and, collectively, quite badly.
