Jo Wolff

I’ve changed my header photo to this one. It shows my father Herbert and his sister Lotte with their parents Fritz and Marta in their Frankfurt apartment before Herbert and Lotte were sent to England on the Kindertransport, and later Fritz and Marta transported to Lodz Ghetto, final fate unknown.

Here’s my boring news. What’s yours?

Disappointed to learn that Cheesecake Factories are real things. I thought it was Obama’s surreal imagination.

Nebbish.

Here’s my boring news. What’s yours?

Looks like Trump needs a refresher course at Perky Political Banter School.

“I don’t know much about AI.” “That’s unfortunate. AI knows a lot about you.”

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Can’t say I have a strong view about the future of doubles in tennis, but this line jumped out: “The ATP says the proposals are based on data-led analysis centred on costs, revenue and viewership.” www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis...

OMG. I googled ‘The Magic Mountain’ and the first result was a Vermont Ski Resort.

250 academics around the world drafting emails to their publishers proposing “against the grain” new book entitled “The Resurgence of Democracy”.

Saw this on the canal yesterday. Merlin tells me it’s an Egyptian goose. Looks like a child’s impression of a colourful duck.

The Economist indulging in playground insults? Classy.

250 academics around the world drafting emails to their publishers proposing “against the grain” new book entitled “The Resurgence of Democracy”.

Thinking of taking a walk down Oxford Street to view the absence of busses.

Saw this on the canal yesterday. Merlin tells me it’s an Egyptian goose. Looks like a child’s impression of a colourful duck.

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

The Economist indulging in playground insults? Classy.

It’s that weird week when there’s only 4 hours time difference between Washington DC and London, though in political time DC feels about 90 years behind sometimes. www.youtube.com/live/06hCYej...

Serbia finally got rid of Vučić, just like Hungary got rid of Orbán a few months ago. It's always encouraging to see, especially as both were supported by both the Kremlin and the White House, and still lost pathetically

I flew too close to the moon. Nothing really happened though.

What is true is that in their early platforms in the 1920s the Nazis strongly advocated for workers’ rights (how else do you get the workers on your side?) But of course they never came close to delivering. Remind you of anything?

Quoted on BBC - Lula said voters should choose the candidate who kisses the Brazilian flag, not the American flag.

Incredible gender difference in voting intention in Brazil.

I saw that ad and expected Alexa to say ‘That’s because of the structural injustice of monopoly capitalism that puts intolerable time pressure on everyone making them juggle multiple tasks and roles to serve the insatiable need for profit of the billionaire caste.’

Slight edit. “We can’t do it because it’s completely inhuman.” And then he does it.

"All over the world I have 'pupils' I have never met.” Attributed to the pioneer of classical guitar, Segovia.

The enormity of the Spurs win at Chelsea yesterday was brought home to me by my brother saying it’s only the second time it’s happened since Maggie Thatcher.

Quoted on BBC - Lula said voters should choose the candidate who kisses the Brazilian flag, not the American flag.

What is true is that in their early platforms in the 1920s the Nazis strongly advocated for workers’ rights (how else do you get the workers on your side?) But of course they never came close to delivering. Remind you of anything?

I saw that ad and expected Alexa to say ‘That’s because of the structural injustice of monopoly capitalism that puts intolerable time pressure on everyone making them juggle multiple tasks and roles to serve the insatiable need for profit of the billionaire caste.’

Is the swamp gas is leaching out of the Reform vote?

Just call them Super Centers …

It’s that weird week when there’s only 4 hours time difference between Washington DC and London, though in political time DC feels about 90 years behind sometimes. www.youtube.com/live/06hCYej...

My uncle had this shop. I win.

Boelo???

Brazil’s Lula, Bolsonaro draw thousands to election-eve rallies https://aje.news/v0d65k

Slight edit. “We can’t do it because it’s completely inhuman.” And then he does it.

Hope he’s chosen the perfect moment. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/u...

Unexpected pleasure. I once asked for an online quote for repairing a hole in a sweater. I seem signed up to their mailing list which shows me their ‘repair of the week’. This week a hand-embroidered rose on a Burberry bag with unremovable stain.

Mike Penders (Chelsea goalkeeper) equal top scorer for Spurs so far this season.

Legal equivalent of the Ring of Gyges.

Victor Klemperer, in Russia occupied Dresden, immediately after WW2, July 1945.

“Every couple of minutes, every couple of lines, no matter where I start I end up with the same sentence: everything is uncertain, everything is in suspense, there is nothing solid under one’s feet, in one’s hands . . .” Victor Klemperer

Harrods cunningly rebranding their Xmas hampers as Premium Stockpiling Kits.

Over-assessment of students (or anything in fact) is like constantly digging up a sapling to check its root growth.

Drinks too much tea and talks only about the weather and the price of things these days.

Unexpected pleasure. I once asked for an online quote for repairing a hole in a sweater. I seem signed up to their mailing list which shows me their ‘repair of the week’. This week a hand-embroidered rose on a Burberry bag with unremovable stain.