The future?

[The vice-president boards Air Force Two in Houston, Texas, this week. Harris’s candidacy for the White House has given fresh energy to what had been a downbeat Democratic party © Brendan Smialowski/POOL/AFP/Getty Images]

A striking shot of the new Democratic candidate for the Presidency to be found at reference 1. From a photographer who appears to have an eye for it, but does not seem to need to trouble to put a lot of effort into his website.

PS 1: maybe President Biden got the timing of his decision just right after all. Reflecting the fact that he is a very experienced operator?

PS 2: the next piece, at reference 4, was not so encouraging. Just business as usual, with our hospitals, prisons and so forth continuing to fall apart, with Labour no more able to bite the tax bullet than the Tories before them?

References

Reference 1: How Harris turned the tables on Trump: Many voters had been dreading a rerun of the 2020 election between two ageing men. Now they are being presented with a much sharper contrast - Lauren Fedor, Financial times - 2024.

Reference 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Smialowski. How much time did he spend on his ancient history?

Reference 3: https://smialowski.org/.

Reference 4: Reeves to delay infrastructure projects to address ‘fiscal hole’: Chancellor’s problems exacerbated by recommendations that public sector workers should get pay rises that are well above inflation - George Parker, Sam Fleming, Gill Plimmer, Sarah Neville, Jim Pickard, Financial Times - 2024.