Choice is a funny thing. It’s generally considered that more choice is a good thing, yet there is a point at which too much choice paralyses your decision-making process. (We are in the process of redecorating our house, and while these days it’s technically possible to have more or less any shade of paint imaginable, we only made proper progress once we found a store offering just a few dozen colours. Make of that what you will.)

He may not have filmed a single second of it, but Mr Christian Marclay’s “The Clock” is a masterpiece of video art: 1,440 minute-long, painstakingly researched clips from thousands of different film and TV shows, depicting a peripatetic 24-hour day, in real time – whether it’s a close-up shot of a character’s watch, a clock in the background, or an alarm clock “kerchunking” from 5.59 to 6.00 (Groundhog Day, natch).

Ask your financial manager what you should do with this year’s bonus and they’ll doubtless tell you to invest it. Ask MR PORTER and we’ll offer much the same. It’s just that our definition of an investment might differ. You may question why you’d ever come to us with such a request. Look, we get it. We may not have all of the necessary qualifications to offer financial advice – to be absolutely clear, we have none – but hear us out. If you were lucky enough to have landed a sizeable bonus or raise this year – and by all accounts, you did have to be quite lucky – then there is certainly an argument in the current climate for exercising a degree of fiscal responsibility.

Choice is a funny thing. It’s generally considered that more choice is a good thing, yet there is a point at which too much choice paralyses your decision-making process. (We are in the process of redecorating our house, and while these days it’s technically possible to have more or less any shade of paint imaginable, we only made proper progress once we found a store offering just a few dozen colours. Make of that what you will.)

He may not have filmed a single second of it, but Mr Christian Marclay’s “The Clock” is a masterpiece of video art: 1,440 minute-long, painstakingly researched clips from thousands of different film and TV shows, depicting a peripatetic 24-hour day, in real time – whether it’s a close-up shot of a character’s watch, a clock in the background, or an alarm clock “kerchunking” from 5.59 to 6.00 (Groundhog Day, natch).