Friday 4 September, 2026

The decisive moment Well, a provençal moment anyway. Quote of the Day ”The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.” Ernest Hemingway Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Edward Elgar | Enigma Variations, Op.36: IX. (Nimrod) Link Something calming before you get to what lies below. Long Read of the Day Mike Brock on the significance of Trump’s renaming a lake — and the way giant corporations bend to his will. Mr. Orwell, if he were here with us, would recognize what he was looking at. Moving past the fascinating advances in technology he missed during this absence, the general outlines of the epistemic tyrannies he warned about are all around. What he would be looking at, this week, is a lake. One of North America’s Great Lakes. On Tuesday, Apple renamed one of them — Lake Ontario — on its…