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An email to me from Lawyer2B. A top City law firm is promoting a (paid - laudable) work experience scheme.The text starts: 'You have ambitions to be a world-class lawyer'. I jumped, but then thought it's a bit late.

The language is interesting. It could have started as a rhetorical question, but the drafting team went for painting a word picture of how a person might see themselves and their potential - classic aspiration marketing. Hopefully it will result in plentiful applications, though one should always be chastened by 'Many are called.....'.

I have a reputation in certain quarters for being grumpy, so this seems a perfect subject for these times.

To prepare for my diatribe I have first checked the Johnson entries in 'Late Life Crisis', a series of articles I did over the pandemic up to August this year. I will reproduce some of them below. They form an aide memoire for developing my arguments. They are also a snapshot of 18 months of UK Covid world. 

The Review

March 2020

'Retail queen' Mary Portas has been interviewed on her 60th birthday. The part that interested me was where, her history of sexual relationships being fluid, she was asked whether she was single now. I thought her reply as reported, was spot-on. She laughed and turned to an assistant: 'What's my answer?'. 'You are very happy in your personal life'. Thus: 'I am very happy in my personal life'.