Suggestions come from US intelligence that a pro-Ukraine group was responsible for the Nord Stream pipeline explosions. We learn that the UK government had an undisclosed position to reject the lab leak hypothesis to keep good relations with China. Massive farmers protests in Brussels underline how the EU’s. Farm to Fork sustainability policy is falling in the face of the Ukraine war. And in this week’s short thought, the horrifying realisation just how badly served today’s youngster have been by the teaching of history.