Well yes, apart from half term weeks. But that’s still not enough to save February. Also skiing is v close in November… most high resorts you can ski from next week! (Or now in lots of places. Friends already went this weekend in Engelberg)

Not if you live in northern Germany 😭. Treacherous March and April.

I like November. How anyone could say any month is objectively worse than February - cold, bleak, and nothing to celebrate except the awfulness of Valentine’s Day - I do not know.

Paranoid espiocracy negotiates with corrupt plutocracy = chaos.

That’s basically the (most benign) encapsulation of Trumpism isn’t it?

This, written by Teddy Roosevelt just prior to US intervention in WW1, seems apt to quote re. America:

“The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first, and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.”

The Swiss have upset me.

Unlike my cursed handheld Dyson, which looks so sleek hung discreetly in my cupboard but still only deigns to perform for ten continuous seconds within any two hour period of time.

I could solve the West’s rare earth crisis with the number of lithium batteries I’ve bought to try and make it go.

Paging @katie0martin.ft.com