APPS THAT ARE A PAIN IN THE A***

THE DVLA is considering scrapping physical driving licences and replacing them with digital ones, to be accessed via an app on your phone. Once again, the relentless march of digitisation, allegedly designed to make our lives easier, is actually just a monumental pain in the you-know-what.

The other day I had to rescue a tearful friend from a car park where she had become trapped after her payment card was stolen. Being fully digitised, there was no parking attendant and no way of paying in cash – so I had to physically hand her my card to get her out.

Needless to say, in the time it took for me to come and rescue her, the tariff had doubled.