Things to avoid when you’re anywhere near me.

There are many irritating things about modern living.

In order to save some time in the future, here’s a short and incomplete list of things that irritate me.

Avoid them and we’ll get along just fine.

• Over-entitlement
• Platitudes
• Wilful ignorance
• Expectation of empathy
• Demands for respect
• Bandwagons
• Opportunism
• Professional victims
• Populism
• Religion – all of them
• Clichés
• Hand-wringers
• Virtue-signallers
• Shallow thinkers
• “Inspirational” stories
• Trial by social media
• Instagram “models”
• Assumptions
• Under-analyses
• Bureaucracy
• Videoing things instead of watching them

And finally…

• Lists.