Sip: on a Queen Elizabeth Cocktail. Happy 96th birthday, Ma’am (although this drink is named after the wife of a Philadelphia bartender).

Weekend browsing:

• Post-Brexit liftoff: Britain prepares for its first space launches since the Seventies

• France’s doomed love affair with state power

• Ignore his tweets from the toilet: Elon Musk is giving the world a brighter future

• As China heads for decline, both demographic and economic, dangers mount

Listen to: Sarah McLachlan singing Rainbow Connection

“Some day we'll find it

The rainbow connection

The lovers, the dreamers, and me.“