Daily Rundown for 2026-08-21
Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing…
On Friday, 21 August 2026
- The average temperature today is 11.06˚C,
- With highs of 12.01˚C and lows of 10.39˚C,
- It may feel like 10.68˚C with scattered clouds
- The wind speed is 0.45m/s and visibility is 10000m
- The pressure is 1012hPa and humidity is 94%
- The sun will rise at 05:02 and set at 19:21
MI5 Status
- The current threat level is SEVERE
- It has been 112 days since the last change (2026-04-30)
Today’s tasks
- Farmers Market in town
Daily Doctrine
Seek the best.
Fixture List
- AFC Bournemouth U21 v Chelsea U21
- Everton U21 v Liverpool U21
- Arsenal v Coventry City
Stocks
- VWRL.L : 137.4600067138672
- ^FTSE : 10748.2001953125
- ^FTMC : 24508.69921875
Just for fun
I am going to start looking for jobs with yoghurt companies as I hear they have a great culture.
Top News
- No nicotine-containing products are safe for your heart (Euronews, 5 minutes ago)
- Australia charges man over trying to inform Russia of Ukrainian military activities (Euronews, 14 minutes ago)
- Can’t sleep on planes? Try this newly opened Malaysian hotel with suites inside two Boeing 747s (Euronews, 18 minutes ago)
- Heatwaves and wildfires: Which EU countries have the most firefighters? (Euronews, 21 minutes ago)
- Latest news bulletin August 21st, 2026 – Morning (Euronews, 21 minutes ago)
- Germans could save over €12,000 by ditching gas boiler for solar, battery and heat pump – analysis (Euronews, 21 minutes ago)
- Europe’s hollowed-out armies: The race to find 100,000 soldiers (Euronews, 22 minutes ago)
- Japanese inflation rises as BoJ weighs rate rise (FT, 27 minutes ago)
- Scott Bessent takes on bond vigilantes in $32tn Treasury market (FT, 1 hours ago)
- Feminism didn’t kill the male breadwinner model, the economy did (FT, 1 hours ago)
- The battle over golf’s future (FT, 1 hours ago)
- Ukraine seeks Musk’s help to hit Russian missile launchers (FT, 1 hours ago)
- HSBC spends $68mn on biggest cull of senior bankers since financial crisis (FT, 1 hours ago)
- Swiss village lives in the shadow of an unstable mountain (Euronews, 1 hours ago)
- North Korea’s economy enjoys rare ‘dash for flash’ (FT, 2 hours ago)
- Shanghai’s answer to Nasdaq outstrips Hong Kong amid Chinese tech frenzy (FT, 3 hours ago)
- What is Bessent doing with the $32tn Treasury market — and will it work? (FT, 6 hours ago)
- Go updates may delight diehard gophers but displease AI overlords (Register, 8 hours ago)
- OpenAI chases Anthropic’s biz customers with zero data retention pledge (Register, 9 hours ago)
- Waymo has designed a robocar chip to stay ahead of Tesla (Register, 9 hours ago)
- Finland suspects Russian aircraft of violating its airspace, defence ministry says (Euronews, 9 hours ago)
- Emergency crews struggle to bring wildfire burning for weeks in Serbia under control (Euronews, 9 hours ago)
- Training Gallery: Close to the start (CFC, 10 hours ago)
- Leeds United, Nottingham Forest, Everton in £40-50m ‘race’ for Liam Delap — report (WAGNH, 11 hours ago)
- US Bank investigates LockBit’s claims as ransomware crims set pay-or-leak deadline (Register, 11 hours ago)
- Microsoft gives Task Manager another task: Watching AI workloads (Register, 12 hours ago)
- US claims 15 of the world’s top 20 hyperscale datacenter locations (Register, 13 hours ago)
- Researcher tricks Apple’s Find My into sharing location data with Linux (Register, 13 hours ago)
- Slack Code taps into collective vibe, puts AI agents into the group chat (Register, 13 hours ago)
- Premier League ticket news: Hull at home (CFC, 14 hours ago)
- Thunderbird to flap twice as fast from September (Register, 14 hours ago)
- Ransomware crook poses as recovery firm to steal payments from fellow extortionists (Register, 14 hours ago)
- Xabi Alonso delivers the latest Chelsea team news ahead of Fulham (CFC, 16 hours ago)
- The Daily Hilario: Thursday (WAGNH, 22 hours ago)
- Chelsea confirm 2025-26 squad numbers, including a cursed choice by João Pedro (WAGNH, 22 hours ago)
Word of the day
gangway - noun: A passageway, especially a narrow or temporary walkway, such as a gangplank, a jet bridge, or an aisle between rows of seats. interjection: Used to tell people to clear the way.
Quote of the Day
After you plant a seed in the ground, you do not dig it up every week to see how it is doing. - William Coyne
Oblique Strategies
Fill every beat with something
Film Archive
- Bad Boys Ii (Rated: 6)
- Released in 2003
- Summary: Miami narcotics cops Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett investigate the flow of Ecstasy into Florida from a Cuban drug cartel.
Countdown Numbers
- Target: 845, using [3, 4, 8, 9, 25, 100]
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Answer: 15 solutions.
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Solution: ( ( 25 + 9 ) x 100 - 8 ) / 4 - 3Solution
