Wednesday 28 October, 2026

Stairway to…? And if that reminds you of Led Zeppellin, then join the club. Quote of the Day “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.” Groucho Marx Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Mozart | Laudate Dominum, KV 339 | Patricia Janečková – Soprano Link It doesn’t get any better than that. Long Read of the Day Posterior Analytics The US mid-term elections are next Tuesday and there’s a lot of wishful thinking about them delivering an electoral hiding to Trump, MAGA and the Republicans. And maybe they will. But even if they do, Trump will still have two years in office, and anybody who thinks will be chastened hasn’t been paying attention. Arthur Goldhammer, however, has, and in this piece paints a picture that isn’t pretty. There is good reason to fear the form that narcissistic decompensation might take when the discombobulated ego in question belongs to the commander-in-chief of a nuclear-armed power. The Financial…