UK PM May will step down after Brexit is finalised. And so it's a great pity that there is not a wannabee UK PM named June. But there's not, so after May will come...

2018 saw brainlessness raised to previously unheard of heights, the new peak being achieved by Andrew Broad, a National Party MP of small IQ but large, err, ego.

Global share markets have got a bad case of the jitters: the year's gains on the ASX have gone.The Australian parliament has descended into a scene from The Party.

On Tuesday NASA landed a vehicle of some sort on Mars. On the same day, the Liberal Party crash landed onto Mars; 20 million kms from Liberal reality.

This is the worst 5-month start to a fiscal year since 2011. But investors who have at least a 5-year investment horizon shouldn't worry about 5 months.

Brexit: UK PM May is a thick-skinned pragmatist. Not an ideologue like the whingeing Boris Johnson or the delightfully named but ambitious Jacob Rees-Mogg.