Spain is suffering from a surge in Covid-19 as people there act as if Covid-19 did not exist any more.

I am in Spain now, and I take care to remind the people I meet to take precautions — and to set an example by doing so myself.

Should the EU admit the remaining Balkan countries?

They do not have a long or strong tradition of democracy, so it seems likely that they will go the way of Poland and Hungary. Before admitting them, the EU needs to strengthen its ability to stop countries from going down that path.

A former CEO has been convicted of ordering the assassination of Berta Cáceres. Her activism was in the way of the dam that his company wanted to build. The murder followed years of surveilling her.

Before being the CEO of that company, he was in the Honduran military and got training from the US. I wonder: was that in the School of the Americas, aka WHINSEC and various other names?

*The Tories’ abandonment of responsibility to protect us from Covid is unmasked.*

*Brazil's Bolsonaro implicated in alleged graft scheme as lawmaker.*

Politicians who don't think corruption is wrong, in countries where corruption is widespread, will generally have participated.