What we learned this week

Apologies for a slow week on the blog. I have spent this week writing the last 20,000 words of a children’s novel, which I finished yesterday. I really needed to write something funny after spending so long working on climate change and racism. No idea if it will come to anything at this point. Here are some things that happened this week while I was up in my attic, writing in the persona of an eight year old.

In a speech to the UN, Chinese president Xi Jinping announced that “China will scale u...