Few things are considered truly sacrosanct in friendships: never reveal their darkest secrets, never bring a partner to a girl’s night, never pull an embarrassing story out of the archives in public—and, for most people—never date their ex. As the world gets flatter every day with more dating apps than can fit on your phone’s home screen, there seems less justification than ever for going out with a friend’s former partner. This isn’t the 90s, where we are forced to function on a 5km social radius. We have limitless potential dates just a swipe away, a Friday night paramour conjured up in minutes, a ‘looking to look it down’ waiting in the wings on Hinge. How then, in a scenario where you can date beyond
