An interview with the last resident of the village of Wollar in Australia. Everyone else has sold per property to Peabody coal mining.

If the new use of the town's land was something necessary for Australia and the world to survive, I would say that what has happened in Wollar was not so bad. At least people are getting bought out and they can move to other communities.

But given that mining more coal is death, the state should not have permitted a new coal mine at all. Laws should prohibit new coal mines.

A thug went mad and attacked a teenager who had surrendered, for not obeying every violent demand.

Thousands protested peacefully in London against Tory plans to repress protesters if they cause inconvenience to anyone.

I fear this will not be enough. The Tories figure they will win the next election, with some help from voter suppression, and aside from that they care about nothing and no one.

Unionizing the workers in charter schools prevents some of their usual kinds of exploitation. Is that enough to make them harmless?

The UK, by outsourcing regulation, has demonstrated that this practice encourages corruption that defeats the regulation, with results that sometimes kill and often ruin people.