The Shallow end Available to Purchase

It seems to me that nobody talks much about making New Year resolutions nowadays, and newspapers and magazines no longer publish pieces on the good intentions of famous people. Those features have been replaced by others made up of the hopes and predictions, for the forthcoming twelve‐month, of politicians and media‐personalities—an Old Bores' Almanac. (You may be wondering what's so new about a year that has now reached March, June, or whatever, according to your position on the periodicals circulation list. Well, at this end of the production line, it's only January.)