Hammond Calls for EU Partners to Tango.

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Chancellor Philip Hammond went to Berlin today, to a meeting of Germna business people organised by Die Welt. In a cunning reversal, he bounced back the need to find a solution for Brexit to the EU, witht he phrase "it takes two to tango!" Thoughts of punishing Britain for leaving the EU must be banished. The aim is for Britain to achieve a Canada plus plus deal, including financial services.

The monumental news has not yet hit the German media, not even Die Welt, who organised the event. Other matters appear to have a higher priority.

Meanwhile, the NHS crisis continues in the news with even Jeremy Hunt beginning to admit that more funding might be needed. Britain wakes up to the excesses of plastic packaging as the implications of China refusing to take other countries' plastic waste are realised.

Went to the humanist memorial service for a microscopist friend today In the evening revisited the slides for crossed polar filters, this time photographing them through the microscope.