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In defence of frivolity in a world of suffering

Those of us who are spared horror have so much to be grateful for that it seems criminal — and somewhat insincere — to set our faces to despair.

I received an email last week from a reader, unhappy about my byline picture in this paper because I wear too wide a smile.

“You know JOLLY well your grin is inappropriate,” she told me. Over the course of several emails she also pointed out the world was “too horrid” for such levity. “May I suggest you give your face a rest,” she said, before signing off.

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