This week, James and Toby discuss James’s profound sense of loss now that the hunting season is over and Toby’s concern that James’s pessimism about the future is making him mentally ill.Among the news items covered: Whether Bill Gates really is an evil mastermind, the inevitability of ’15 minute’ cities, the Global Warming Policy Foundation’s damning new report on wind power, Humza Yousef becoming the new leader of the SNP and the mobbing of Kellie-Jay Keen in New Zealand.In Culture Corner, the new season of Succession (HBO Max), The Night Agent (Netflix), the first of Anthony Trollope’s Palliser novels (Can You Forgive Her?) and Royal Flash, the second of George MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman novels.