My favourite prime minister Jacinda Ardern is at it again as New Zealand adopts the world's most ambitious climate action targets, while the Collins Dictionary adopts the term 'climate strike' as its "word of the year."

Meanwhile, the British Labour Party is promising menopause workplace policies if it wins the general election.

Here, most outlets carry news of the CAB raid on the homes of (among others) two Irish hauliers suspected of human trafficking.

The Irish Times gives RTÉ chair Moya Doherty space to blame the national broadcaster's woes on Government indecision, as Siptu vows to fight any compulsory redundancies at the station.

Elsewhere this dead news day, the number of Dublin houses built fell by 14% in the second quarter of this year, two more big companies have introduced paid paternity leave, and Ireland's was absent from the group of nine finance ministers calling for green taxes on air travel.

I've given you no music Zen since before the August break, despite having seen Richard Thompson in Vicar Street on one of those long, light evenings (remember them?). Here's Steve Pilgrim's favourite (that's not him in the picture, by the way).

Have a good weekend.

Bernard