Like many men in their mid-forties who have yet to bag a Booker prize, a Silicon Valley career or a seat around the cabinet table, I start the morning confronted by my own failures and the impending collapse of civilisation. The day generally goes downhill from there. I spend the first half hour of the day shouting at the radio, and the idiots being interviewed on it, while I aimlessly doom-scroll and avoid getting up. Yesterday I shook off the weighted blanket of lockdown London life and my own shortcomings and embraced my inner-Californian — I decided to live like Orlando Bloom. The Lord of the Rings actor, now living in Los Angeles, has attracted some

Source: The Times March 23, 2021 18:45 UTC