A brief Googling suggests Rishi Sunak, Emmanuel Macron, Olof Scholz, Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky are all 5'7, it's an unprecedented consolidation of European power in the hands of short kings

The first British PM to have paid tuition fees at university.

Me when they announce Rishi as PM youtube.com/shorts/5TIT63F…

A dispatch from Hikelandia. The central banks which raised rates early are doing no better than the laggards at crushing inflation. economist.com/finance-and-ec…

Romania offers cautionary tale on pitfalls of energy subsidies ft.com/content/af21a9…

A spurious correlation?

Unseasonally mild weather in Europe continue to push down gas and electricity prices -- bringing quite a lot of economic relief.

In late October, Berlin and Zurich may see 20 Celsius this week, and Paris and Madrid almost 25 Celsius.

From the Hundred Days to a short weekend.

I will never tire of this website. Someone will say “i love spending time with my husband” and the replies are all like “WOW that’s great for you but I am ALLERGIC to BEES”