Detail of a drawing I found once, pasted to a wall, while I was out walking. Unsigned. My photograph, and I wish I could credit the artist.

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“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results.” Albert Einstein said that. Or he didn’t. My Google Search Results are split on the attribution.

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As I write, COP 27 is getting under way in Sharm el-Sheikh. After twenty-six COPs, they should get it right on the twenty-seventh attempt, surely? [The numbers in that sentence, if you prefer them as numbers, look like this: 26 previous COPs; this is the 27th attempt.]

“Politicians making promises. That’ll work.” I don’t want to disappoint you, but Albert Einstein didn’t say that either.