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👋Good morning. If you're reading this with a cup in hand, congratulations: you're officially celebrating something. Today is the first UN-recognised International Coffee Day, which means the world's favourite legal stimulant now has diplomatic paperwork of its own. Fitting, really, because yesterday felt like a day running on a double espresso. Watchdogs woke up and started asking awkward questions, boardrooms reshuffled the chairs, and the AI race kept sprinting while a few voices shouted "slow down!" from the touchline. Your morning brew is a neat reminder of how the whole machine works: a bean grown by a smallholder thousands of miles away, shipped, roasted, priced and poured before you've even found your keys. Everything is connected, and yesterday everyone seemed to notice at once. It's Thursday, the week is nearly done, but nobody told the news. Top up and let's get into it.
