Covid-19 has led Australians to care more about how the state aids people's wellbeing, and to give lower priority to "law and order".

One of the nasty consequences of nonfree software is that programs become unobtainable at the whim of some company.

Nonfree software means some "owner" officially owns all copies, and has power over all who use the program. That's an injustice in itself, and it is the root of many other injustices. It even includes power over whether anyone can get a copy, as described above.

*Real constitutional reform [in the UK] goes beyond abolishing the monarchy.*

I don't think the question of whether the UK has a constitutional monarch or no monarch is very significant at all. The system of government is the problem.

*Vladimir Putin: the Authentic Leader of the Republican Party.*

*US claims Russia creating lists of Ukrainians "to be killed or sent to camps."*

I would not treat this as certain based on the unsupported word of the US. But this is what Putin does in Russia, so he will surely do it in Ukraine too.

As for dissidents (Russians or Belarusians) in exile in Ukraine, Putin will surely persecute them if he gets his hands on them. I doubt he will hesitate to go as far as his ally, Lukashenko, has already gone.

Those dissidents need to flee Ukraine right away. They can't wait and apply for asylum first -- they must travel by land and then apply for asylum. People with Ukrainian passports are welcome to visit European countries, but those in exile in Ukraine probably don't have those. Will Poland let them in?

Countries facing a guerrilla resistance in an occupied country often arrest its influential sympathizers. The US did this while occupying Vietnam.

and maybe also in Iraq -- I don't remember off-hand. (We should not equate a resistance movement with a terrorist campaign.)

Most recently, India arrested everyone in Kashmir who was in any sense a leader, immediately after converting it, in effect, from an Indian state to an occupied territory.