Daily Rundown for 2026-11-01
Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing…
On Sunday, 01 November 2026
- The average temperature today is 7.75˚C,
- With highs of 9.83˚C and lows of 7.75˚C,
- It may feel like 5.45˚C with fog
- The wind speed is 3.6m/s and visibility is 3000m
- The pressure is 1034hPa and humidity is 93%
- The sun will rise at 07:02 and set at 16:41
MI5 Status
- The current threat level is SEVERE
- It has been 185 days since the last change (2026-04-30)
Today’s tasks
- No tasks today
Daily Doctrine
Exploit the landscape.
Fixture List
- Arsenal Women v Aston Villa Women
- London City Lionesses v Manchester City Women
- Birmingham City Women v Tottenham Hotspur Women
- Brighton & Hove Albion Women v Crystal Palace Women
- West Ham United Women v Liverpool Women
- Charlton Athletic Women v Chelsea Women
- Liverpool v Arsenal
Stocks
- VWRL.L : 135.9600067138672
- ^FTSE : 10729.7998046875
- ^FTMC : 24453.400390625
Just for fun
Out on a long bike ride, I went miles down a long winding road until I arrived at a churchyard and only then did I realise it was a dead end and I had made a grave mistake.
Top News
- Gen Z protests turn violent in Germany (FT, 11 minutes ago)
- Bulgarians head to the polls in tense presidential runoff (Euronews, 36 minutes ago)
- Latest news bulletin November 1st, 2026 – Midday (Euronews, 48 minutes ago)
- UN demands urgent investigation after death of staff member held in Houthi custody (Euronews, 1 hours ago)
- Binance restarts customer withdrawals after $6.3bn heist (FT, 2 hours ago)
- Landline phones will switch off across Britland in 100 days, no extensions – Openreach (Register, 2 hours ago)
- Kärcher CEO warns Europe faces ‘perfect storm’ as he calls for economic reforms (Euronews, 2 hours ago)
- France taps strategic diesel reserves, diesel prices fall (Euronews, 3 hours ago)
- FBI blames North Korea for $6.3 billion Binance crypto hack (Euronews, 3 hours ago)
- Maxence Lacroix ‘feared to be out’ until January — report (WAGNH, 4 hours ago)
- The world according to Ellen von Unwerth: Glamour, sensuality and photography (Euronews, 4 hours ago)
- Russia says ‘massive’ drone attack targeted ‘industrial enterprise’ amid reports oil refinery hit (Euronews, 4 hours ago)
- The Daily Hilario: Sunday (WAGNH, 4 hours ago)
- Hooray for Houdini: Budapest celebrates 100th anniversary of escape artist’s death (Euronews, 5 hours ago)
- EU Commission: Polish Parliament has right to appoint judges to the Constitutional Court (Euronews, 5 hours ago)
- Xabi Alonso happy with Chelsea’s second-half response, Estêvão and Roméo Lavia impact (WAGNH, 6 hours ago)
- Quant hedge fund to spin out of Tudor in record $9bn launch (FT, 6 hours ago)
- Russia forced to ship grain via Arctic as Black Sea battles rage (FT, 6 hours ago)
- Military briefing: what would another US-Iran conflict look like? (FT, 6 hours ago)
- EU leaders risk breaking their promise to help European start-ups (FT, 6 hours ago)
- New Zealand’s kingmaker could be a 38-year-old ex-KPMG consultant (FT, 6 hours ago)
- Romeo Lavia on hard work paying off with ‘statement performance’ (CFC, 11 hours ago)
- Xabi Alonso reflects on a ‘very important’ clean sheet and stable Mike Penders (CFC, 14 hours ago)
- Charlton Athletic WFC vs. Chelsea FCW, Women’s Super League: Preview, team news, how to watch (WAGNH, 19 hours ago)
- Alonso reveals Estevao plan after Brazilian’s ‘best response’ against Man United (CFC, 20 hours ago)
- Google’s AI satellite sends a very expensive haiku to Earth (Register, 20 hours ago)
- Evacuees from Russian-occupied city arrive in Ukraine (FT, 20 hours ago)
- Chelsea 2-0 Manchester United, Premier League: Post-match reaction, ratings (WAGNH, 21 hours ago)
- Goth aesthetic gone wild: a user’s self-inflicted black screen of non-death in Windows 3.1’s (Register, 23 hours ago)
Word of the day
priapean - adjective: 1. Phallic. 2. Lewd; salacious.
Quote of the Day
Great Product Owners keeps options open. - Geoff Watts
Oblique Strategies
Give the game away
Film Archive
- Alien (Rated: 7)
- Released in 1979
- Summary: After investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin, the crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform.
Countdown Numbers
- Target: 828, using [2, 9, 10, 25, 75, 100]
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Answer: 11 solutions.
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Solution: ( 100 + 2 - ( 75 + 25 ) / 10 ) x 9Solution
