Sometimes it’s extremely hard to mind your own business. However, we all know that ideally we should, and most of us give it a bloody good go. So when the universe rewards us with an opportunity to do the opposite, it must be grabbed with both hands and cherished like the precious gift it is.

New dating app Rivet lets a random group of volunteers pick users’ matches, AKA gives interfering busybodies who think they know best free rein over strangers’ love lives. I mean, where do I sign up? This is the chance frustrated matchmakers like me have been waiting for, once their supply of single friends has been exhausted (in both senses).

Launched last week, Rivet “surfaces a lot of people that you may otherwise swipe past”, explains founder Taru Kapoor, a former Tinder exec. It tells prospective daters who has been selected for them slowly, a few options at a time: think one or two episodes a week rather than the whole season being available to binge-watch. The idea is that this........

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