Friday 23 October, 2026

Et in Arcadia ego… Walking back from lunch yesterday I looked over the bridge and saw this. The weather currently is what used to be called an “Indian Summer”, possibly by people who had never been in India in the summer. Quote of the Day ”You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.” Leon Trotsky Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Leonard Cohen | Hallelujah, arr. Tom Hodge | Sheku Kanneh-Mason Link Long Read of the Day Too Big to Nationalize A really powerful blast by Mike Brock about the mess the world is now in — where a single, unaccountable, individual is wielding the kind of power that once was the prerogative of nation states. When a business becomes critical infrastructure, its relationship with society alters. If SpaceX builds a near-monopoly on satellite internet, no matter how objectively good the product is, and its CEO then uses it to conduct foreign policy according to his own politics and against the interests of the United States, the…