Poland's right-wing government has backed off on plans to tighten restrictions on abortion.

The UK plans to prohibit protests in the name of Covid-19.

People should be allowed to protest if they wear masks and keep their distance.

That applies to Australia, too. Thugs in Melbourne arrested 400 protesters because anything more than a small protest is prohibited.

The article fails to clarify whether they were arrested for refusing to take sanitation precautions, or for protesting. Morally, that makes all the difference.

Based on the signs that the protesters are reported to have carried, I get the impression that they were covidiots. Very likely they refused to wear masks and refused to keep distance from each other. That means spreading disease. Arresting people for that — whether protesting or not — would be legitimate. Arresting people for protesting would be tyranny.

*Ugandan singer Bobi Wine arrested after confirmation as election candidate.*

People with long-term Covid-19 disability need to rest in order to recover. But the Tory hostile environment for working class people who are sick does not allow them rest.

*Covid has exposed the decade-long lie that benefits are a lifestyle choice.*

In the UK and the US, both run by cruel right-wing regimes, welfare benefits are so meager that it is a struggle to survive on them. And if anything goes seriously wrong, you're destitute.

Hong Kong reported Choy Yuk-ling has been arrested under the 2020 "security" law for a 2019 report on violence by Hong Kong thugs a year ago.

In the 1700s, the UK used to pass laws that criminalized past actions. They were known as "ex post facto laws", and in condemnation of that practice, the US constitution explicitly prohibits them.