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Saturday's are for having your mind read. Or, at least, this Saturday is because I'm seeing Derren Brown's new show. I'm a little self-conscious about it, not because I'm worried the mentalist will hypnotise me and make me profess a false love for consoles over PC games but because my partner and her family have never seen me at a magic (or magic adjacent show).

Reader, I am an awful audience member for conjurors, illusionists, and psychics.

Throughout their performance my face is fixed in an almost angry glare, my eyes narrowed, brow furrowed, and lips drawn thinly. It's not that I'm not enjoying myself, it's that I'm so intently trying to work out what the trick is before it happens or how it was done afterwards that I forget to smile.…