It is parliament Friday and the stampede for the airport is well and truly underway. We are taking that a as a sign to close the blog down a little earlier than usual, so that you too can be freed from the shackles of this place.

Thank you to everyone who joined us this week – we are constantly blown away by the support for this little project. Thank you. Go and switch off this weekend to help re-calibrate after another big week of news, most of it despairing and tragic. It is OK to turn off a little every now and then so you can build up your emotional scaffolding again. It’s also OK to care so much that you need to switch off for a bit.

We will be back on Monday for the second week of this sitting, which is the last joint sitting until late October (there is a week of estimates and house of rep sitting in the first week of October)

And all of that brings us one week closer to the end of the year.

So until Monday, please – take care of you. Ax