I USUALLY make a couple of gentle resolutions at the start of each year.

None of them particularly demanding, so I won’t be preparing for park runs, marathons, gym sessions, a holier-than-thou dry January, or a trek to ‘find myself’ in the middle of a jungle in Borneo (anyway, I did my own version of that on my 70th last August, when I climbed to the top of the Reichenbach Falls and pondered Sherlock Holmes while eating a banana split birthday cake).

My resolution this year – and I suspect it may actually prove to be much tougher than I’m thinking right now – is not to write about the Executive for the remainder of 2026: apart from this mid-January column, obviously.

And the reason I’m not planning to write about it is that there’s no point writing about it. It has no impact. None of the parties are listening.

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