Tories blame the failure of British state schools on "decades" of bad policies, but the policy under funding schools, and food and shelter for the students in them, was started by the Tories in 2010.

It is still true: the Tories are lower than vermin.

Since 2014, the Australian government has campaigned forcefully against recognizing how global heating and fertilizer runoff are destroying the Great Barrier Reef.

Now UNESCO plans once again to label the reef as world heritage "in danger".

Trevor Aaronson has reported on the FBI practice of prosecuting Walter Mitty terrorists, people whom the FBI has led by the hand into a trying to commit a crime which was never a real possibility. Thus it can prosecute people who would never have committed any terrorism if left alone.

This makes the FBI look very effective, but it may not prevent any terrorist plots that would really have been carried out. It's also unjust.

Right-wingers have used that truth as the basis for fiction, claiming that the attack on the Capitol was brought about by FBI entrapment.

Aaronson refutes part of their argument about this.

In addition, if that were the case, the FBI (1) would not have built up the group to be big enough to do real harm and (2) would have arrested the participants before they got in a position to do real harm.

More details about San Jose's proposed gun insurance and fee law.

Covid-19 may have pushed millions of Americans into irrational rage while other millions practice denial of what they went through.

The denial is spreading the Delta variant, while the irrational rage pressures people not to take precautions.