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1 April 2020

You leave me no choice

One of life’s enduring mysteries concerns the existence of free will. Do we have it? Don’t we have it? Feedback desperately hopes we don’t, as that makes our columns much easier to justify to the subeditors. (“We’d have loved to make it funnier, honestly, but it’s out of our hands. Take it up with management.”)

That’s why we were so pleased when John Stephen Rymell forwarded us an advert he had come across while browsing the internet. Paid for by the charity Macmillan Cancer Support to promote one of its many laudable patient services, it reads: “Macmillan free will service: Register…

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