The New Era low-rent housing in London has been sold to a foundation that will keep the rents low.

This is a victory for public protest, but it is a small one. Bad laws in the UK are pushing house prices and rents up, just as bad laws have pushed wages down 10% since the financial crisis. Bad laws encourage the well-off to occupy more space, leaving less for the poor. Bad laws have enabled privatization of the housing that was built to provide homes to the poor, while other bad laws reduced the tax on businesses and the wealthy so there are no funds to replace what was lost.

All these laws need to be changed.

Western mining companies gladly accept slaved labor from the Eritrean government.

In Ireland, a brain-dead pregnant woman's body is being kept on an incubator so as to make the fetus turn into a baby born motherless.

A dead body on an incubator is not a human being, and has no rights. A fetus of 17 weeks is not a human being, and directly has no rights, but causing it to develop into a human being in disadvantaged circumstances would be harm or cruelty to that human being. That's what Ireland is trying to do here.

The UK government is doing a subtle but effective job of undermining the development of ocean-wave-powered electric generation.

It offered huge guarantees for new nuclear plants, so that uncertainty would not hold back investment, and could do the same for wave power, but renewable is not its priority.

Meanwhile, it gives big subsidies to fossil fuels.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.

The accusations against him cannot be credited, coming from Putin.