Readings between meetings

On my list today:

• After Commons last night voted down every single proposal for navigating Brexit, Theresa May will bring the agreement she negotiated with the EU up for a vote tomorrow.
• Jeanne Gang has won the contract to design O'Hare's new Terminal 2.
• What's behind the generational divide over climate change?
• Whether individual European countries go off (or permanently on) Daylight Saving Time in 2021, their transport ministers will have the final say.
• The Housing and Urban Development Department has sued Facebook for housing discrimination in its ads-management program, a move I almost can't believe I agree with.
• Today is the 40th anniversary of the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant.

Back to meetings...

Oh dear. My morning was going so well, and then I read that European transport ministers will have the final say on the daylight saving time decision. Britain's transport minister is Chris Grayling, one of the most incompetent politicians in a cabinet where competition for that title is quite fierce. He's been nicknamed Failing Grayling for his role in overseeing the disastrous rail time table changes last summer, and for awarding a Brexit contract to a ferry company that had no actual ships. In his previous role as justice minister, he was responsible for equally disastrous changes to the probation service. The idea that this man gets to decide anything important is deeply worrying. We must hope that there is a change of government before the daylight saving time decision has to be made.