"As humans grow more comfortable with their chatbots and outsource parts of their thinking to machines, what still counts as a person’s opinion?" | The Economist

"The Pentagon’s own manual on the law of armed conflict points out that it is 'dishonorable and inhumane' to attack people incapacitated by shipwreck." | The Economist

You need only recall that in the depths of their slave-owning ways, American slave-owners (of yore and today) still rose to dazzling heights of religious piety, to understand the role religion plays in desensitising both victims and perpetrators of the ills it rail against.

From The Economist's Espresso.

Birds of Lagos (Common Bulbuls - Pycnonotus barbatus).

Reading about this disclaimer, and I could not but reflect on the vacuity of our political class: "I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm sure you realise that what you heard is not what I meant".

When Richard Hughes (he used to head the Office of Budget Responsibility in the UK) resigned, he took "full responsibility" for a leak at the OBR. Until our public officers learn to take full responsibility for failures in their MDAs we won't get ahead quickly.

From The Economist's Espresso.

Birds of Lagos (male Variable Sunbird - Cinnyris venustus).

"San Francisco may not yet have seen job losses, but that is likely to change as costs fall. America is home to 1m taxi and bus drivers, as well as over 3m truck drivers—adding up to 3% of the working population." | The Economist

"The war in Yemen has slipped down the global agenda over the past two years. It may not stay there." | The Economist

"Despite the suffering caused by human trafficking, it remains low on governments’ lists of priorities." | The Economist

"Israel’s prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, requested a pardon for corruption charges from the country’s president. Mr Netanyahu has been charged with fraud, breach of trust and receiving bribes, all of which he denies." | The Economist

From The Economist's Espresso.

Ó rí ẹnì tí ó nkan ‘ju lọ sí Ilorin, ó ni kí ó ba ọ ra tiró bọ, ojú ọtun l'óo lé si, àbí t’òsì?

Birds of Lagos (Splendid Starling - Lamprotornis splendidus).

The Reds have started their siege on The Hammers' goal area, which has this season left them open to their opponents' counter-attack being rewarded.

Watching The Hammers celebrate the passing of William Arthur Bonds MBE (who died this morning), I cannot but wonder what sustains some of us on this side of the globe in the belief that "the White man has no culture".

The wil​li​waw over some of Mr. Tinubu's ambassadors-designate ought not to becloud how distinguished one of the nominees is. This nominee is the only person on record to obtain a PhD with a first class upper.

The truth is that even folks like myself, who couldn't find a reason to vote for him, out of deep concern for Nigeria's outcomes and outlook, expected far more from Mr. Tinubu than we knew he could (or was willing to) deliver.

"Post offices all over the world have seen the volume of letters collapse over the past two decades, as email, text messages and social-networking sites replace paper." | The Economist

With Chinese firms accounting for a growing share of the world’s clinical trials, and Africans unlikely to be properly represented as patients in these trials, how do we play in the coming round of blockbuster drugs?

The Federal Government's list of ambassador-designates removes the final hurdle in the path of my appointment as the next Federal Reserve governor.

When it comes to politics (backing the conservative National party in Honduras' presidential election tomorrow), Mr. Trump's war against narco-terrorists takes back seat (pardoning Juan Orlando Hernández, a formerpresident of Honduras, in jail in the US for importing cocaine).

From The Economist's Espresso.

Nigeria at night.

Birds of Lagos (Common Kestrel - Falco tinnunculus).

Birds of Lagos (African Thrush - Turdus pelios).

Birds of Lagos (Splendid Starling - Lamprotornis splendidus).

Birds of Lagos (Laughing Dove - Spilopelia senegalensis).

Birds of Lagos (Speckled Pigeon - Columba guinea).

"Short of engineering a recession and outright deflation, the absolute level of prices almost never falls." | The Economist

From the Financial Derivatives Company Limited, as of November 27, 2025.

To pause permanently? Must be an amazing capacity.

"Major-General Horta Inta-a became Guinea-Bissau’s interim president, a day after a military coup...to save the country’s democracy from a plot by 'narcotraffickers'." | The Economist

"Mr Trump said a National Guard member shot near the White House had died. Another guardsman remains in hospital. Earlier Kash Patel, head of the fbi, said the suspect was a 29-year-old Afghan man who had worked with the cia in Afghanistan." | The Economist

Birds of Lagos (Common Kestrel - Falco tinnunculus).

Birds of Lagos (Broad-billed Roller - Eurystomus glaucurus).

From The Economist's Espresso.

Oh well...

"The budget was further proof of a strangely overlooked fact in British politics: Ms Reeves is a chancellor in the most economically left-wing government of the past five decades." | The Economist

Never stop thinking. Always in search of new ways of doing new things differently. That’s what culture and traditions are about. Not the calcifying uniformities that we plight our troth to and seek to guard from change.

From The Economist's Espresso.

It's going to be a long way back from this defeat for Arend Martijn "Arne" Slot.

With the look on the faces of the home crowd at Anfield, ought Arend Martijn "Arne" Slot to have his back to them?

That Virgil van Dijk mule-kick is all shades of wrong.

The thing is, Virgil van Dijk thought he was in a volleyball match.

Such is the extent of the federal government's sympathy for "the families who have lost their loved ones in recent attacks on soft targets in Kebbi, Borno, Zamfara, Niger, Yobe, and Kwara States", that it repeated this phrasing in the same press statement.

Looks like the incumbent administration at the centre will grasp at any straw that's within reach at this moment.