*other, cheaper, non-Brexit-supporting investment platforms are available.

I’m just surprised Canada isn’t metric.

Wonder a bit if Sunak thought he could do better than that, and wanted to see if he could make a difference. It was the reason I got into politics, just his was on a massive scale compared to my weak efforts.

Much better! (Although 175ml has finally sunk in with me.)

Yanis Varoufakis is a horror show in his own right. I don’t think he should be taken seriously. Or indeed, taken notice of.

But critics argue that Ireland, awash with cash from a corporation tax bonanza paid by global firms with big operations in the country, is using its neutral status to duck its 21st-century responsibilities.

When I heard he’d died, was looking around for the obits and tributes, and found the substack he kept on writing his last book. I have great affection for him. He had a natural morality and decency that’s quite rare. A useful man to keep my own views on the right track. He’ll be missed.

I’m not totally sure, based on how basic AI works (scraping the internet for anything, nonsense or not) it’ll ever be able to replace intelligent thought.

Like British people eh?

I think I’ll be dust before that happens. Which is a strange kind of positive to take from it.

(from ‘The Shepherd’s Calendar: November’)

“At length the stir of rural labour’s still,
And Industry her care awhile forgoes;
When Winter comes in earnest to fulfil
His yearly task, at bleak November’s close,
And stops the plough, and hides the field in snows”