Where we are before the market opens in the US…and heading down. The politics of vaporising pensions - 401k plans - is going to be interesting #Trumptariffs

One of the most bizarre things about the Oval office shakedown was the Churchill bust in the background: Trump is Chamberlain the appeaser not Churchill the fighter. Grok image hat tip Ilia Pomorenko.

Sunset in Paris: the Eiffel tower from the rue de Belleville, just near Edith Piaf’s birthplace

Everything except the vast rise in (non-EU and therefore controllable) immigration was predicted. Note Brexit has particularly hurt the farm, food and fisher folk who were misled by Farage and Johnson

Are baby boomers the last boozers? Wine drinking plunging in France, says FT

An idea for Pres Donald J. Trump: Qaddafi had an all-female bodyguard handpicked for their gunmanship

Quite right too. If only the UK on Brexit and the US on Trump 1 had taken intelligence service warnings more seriously

Paris - the city of light - announces the rebirth of Notre Dame to the night sky