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Never Listless
The Top 3 of almost Everything

Hello

This week it’s a wide ranging celebration of …

Parisian calm,
Influencer bans,
Irritating nomenclature and
Seismic budgets.

All this and more in your weekly dose of the Never Listless newsletter.

Andrew Weaver
https//3ology.fun

(Personal)
My Weekly Top 3

1. Pass the Wine

As France burned this week, I’d like to celebrate the sang-froid of this Parisian couple … “Gardons notre sang-froid. Et passons le vin.”

2. Bear Witness

My favourite living poet is David Whyte who captures the essence of friendship in a gorgeous essay, where he acknowledges the many wonderful things about a long term friendship and that ultimately it’s about bearing witness to each other’s lives.

This week, after 22 years, I reconnected with Sara.
She’s known me longer than almost anyone still on the planet.

Her witness statement might make for uncomfortable reading,
but it’s likely the most reliable you’ll find.

Anyone you haven’t been in touch with for a long time, who you should have?

3. Hang the blessed Influencer

I have an aversion to photographs on demand.

That unnatural pose. The manufactured happiness.
One perfectly lovely moment interrupted by an insistence on photographic proof.

Influencer culture has simply deepened my distaste, as we're often forced to negotiate an army of pouting propagandists promoting their artificially perfect lives.

But as Martin Luther King almost certainly didn't say about influencers,
the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.

And this week, justice arrived.

Hotels, restaurants and beauty spots are banning influencer photoshoots, reclaiming their spaces for people who simply want to enjoy the moment.

(Music)
Top 3 songs that reference the Hurricane

This weekend we're being visited by Storm Boelo.

For most of the world, a storm in a teacup.
For the Brits, front-page news.

My concern isn't about the danger of low-flying detritus.
It's the modern nonsense of naming every bloody storm.

Hurricanes? Absolutely.
They have the scale and menace to deserve proper nomenclature.

But a minor Atlantic squall barely capable of disturbing Grandpa's allotment?

In protest I give you my three favourite songs celebrating the hurricane...

1. Hurricane - Bob Dylan

Eight magnificent minutes of righteous anger, storytelling and Dylan at his most gloriously indignant - perhaps his last moment of genius?

2. Hurricane Laughter - Fontaines D.C.

My new favourite band and an early track of Dublin post-punk, with the subtlety of a hurricane tearing through your living room.

And their new album is off the scales good …

3. Bad Moon Rising -
Creedance Clearwater Revival

OK i may have over reached here but what’s not to love about this classic as John Fogerty pairs his dark, apocalyptic events (including our hurricane) with a brilliant rock melody

(Politics)
Top 3 seismic UK budgets

The new chancellor finally unveils his first budget this week.

Despite difficult choices, will it make a significant difference to our lives?
Probably not and certainly not the impact made by my top three seismic post-war budgets;

1. Hugh Dalton - 1945

Britain emerged from WWII virtually bankrupt, yet Attlee's Labour government embarked on an extraordinary social transformation.

Dalton's first Budget helped lay the financial foundations for the welfare state, NHS and nationalisation.

When Britain could barely afford to rebuild itself, the government decided to rebuild society too.

2. Kwasi Kwateng - 2022

Only a mini-budget but as it led to financial meltdown it has to be included.

Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng, the comedy duo handed to us by the Conservative Party, unleash £45 billion of unfunded tax cuts that send the pound plunging, borrowing costs soaring and pension funds into crisis.

The Bank of England intervened, Kwarteng was sacked after 38 days and Truss soon followed. I suspect a lettuce might have done a better job.

3. Nigel Lawson - 1988

At the height of Thatcherism, Nigel Lawson cut the top income tax rate from 60% to 40% and the basic rate to 25%.

Supporters hailed a boost to enterprise and ambition; critics saw it as a giveaway to the wealthy and a defining moment for a decade of growing inequality.

3ology - for those stormy winter nights?

Winter is closing in.
You've stockpiled the essentials.
Storm Colin is lurking around the corner.

Time to dust off the 3ology box and remind yourself what a splendid birthday, Christmas, housewarming or wedding present it makes.

Yes, the happy couple will love you for it.
And who needs a £400 cutlery set anyway?

Find more lists and purchase more copies …
from the 3ology website

And if you fancy taking a look at our earlier newsletters

Never Listless #6 : Poker, Betrayal with New Boots and Panties
Never Listless #5 : 2nd Brain, Lennon's Molar, Women in Tech
Never Listless #4 : Bad Sporting Fashion, Unsung Pacemakers
Never Listless #3 : Scottish Shortbread, Ways to Spot a Liar
Never Listless #2 : Reasons I Love About The Dutch, Autumn Equinox
Never Listless #1 : AI Features You’ll Find Useful, Hanks by Hanks

Never ListlessThe Top 3 of almost Everything

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