States may prohibit in-vitro fertilization, because that tends to produce lots of extra embryos that do not get implanted.

Microplastics in fresh water keep intestinal viruses alive for longer, thus helping them infect more humans.

Oxfam's head calls for a windfall profits tax to help feed poor people.

This tax could certainly do a lot of good for poor people, and I am in favor of it. In the recent past, there was indeed enough food available, so money to help poor people get a bigger share would solve the problem of feeding them. However, given Putin's blockade of Ukraine, is that still true? Would more money for the poor be sufficient now?

NHS doctors insist that the crisis of the NHS is caused by Tory underfunding, not by Covid-19.

This makes sense, since the problems developed in a slow and steady fashion over ten years, and have been reported on across that time.

Starmer boasts of moving the Labour Party to the "center". He claims it will win because people hate the Tories. They do, and it may. But the emphasis on economic growth is explicit rejection of the goal of redistributing the wealth that the rich have taken away from the rest. That's what it means to be a "centrist" party — don't make the rich any less rich.

No wonder Starmer opposes unions when they show a willingness to do more than piss and moan.

We will never get a big change for the better from Centrist Labour. It will be more Tony B'liar.