*Millions in Britain have struggled for years. Only in a pandemic are they seen.*

I have a hunch that, for Bogus Johnson, starving the poor is not an ideological commitment, merely a consequence of enriching the rich.

Orbán is moving to take control of the last radio station and last theater in Hungary which are independent of state power.

Physicians for Human Rights calls for banning the use of rubber-coated hard bullets against protesters, citing 115 instances of protesters that suffered grave head wounds from them.

It is against the rules to fire those bullets at people's heads, but it is clear that they often do it anyway. Perhaps some of them were firing wildly. Others, I suppose, hit protesters' heads intentionally. Many thugs are right-wing extremists, and if they see opportunities to maim protesters and not be punished, they may go for it eagerly.

Oil companies (which are also plastic companies) have worked hard for decades to make the public think that used plastic products would be recycled if we handed them in, knowing this was not true, so that we would buy and discard plastic without hesitation.

Most of what we hand in goes into landfill because recycling it is not feasible.

Did they know, decades ago, that plastic products would damage wild animals and ecosystems?

Perhaps not. (It would be interesting to investigate what they knew about this and when.) In any case, we know it now. We must reduce drastically the amount of plastic waste that does not in fact get recycled, so we do not leave our planet full of toxin dispensers.

A car with cameras looking in all directions could in principle avoid all collisions.

It could also give the state, or Clearview AI, a chance to identify all other cars and people it passes near. We must make sure that only highly processed data gets out of the video processor.