The residents of Brixton (near London) have fought a series of projects to gentrify their neighborhood. The latest project which they oppose is a 20-story skyscraper.

I conjecture that this project was planned before 2020, in a world in which there appeared to be great need for additional housing space in London, even if only to buy as an investment and leave empty.

Covid-19 has eliminate that appearance; an enormous amount of office space will be vacant. Surely some of that can be converted to housing, especially with some flexibility in building codes. Then there would be a sufficiency of residential space and of business space, and building additional tall buildings would make no sense at all.

*Tanzanian opposition figures arrested after disputed election.*

Powerful people are blocking journalism by threatening libel lawsuits in England against journalists investigating them.

*The [Bully's] War on Dissent Is Using Trumped-Up Federal Charges.*

*It's not just Trump — to much of the world, the US is a bully whoever is in charge.*

Biden won't change this much, but Sanders would have.