The Tories have delayed the plan to repeal thousands of EU-derived laws en masse.

That doesn't mean the laws won't be all be repealed en masse.

Thoughtful and proper proceedings would be to allowing Parliament to examine each of these laws, one by one, and judge whether the UK would be better off keeping it, repealing it, or changing it. That would be the way to improve life in the UK. Evidently that is not the goal.

Australia's not so environmentalist government approved a new coal mine.

That is playing with fire. Every new fossil fuel investment acts to accelerate global heating and increase the chance that we cross a tipping point that tips the world into disaster.

*Senate Judiciary Democrats No Longer Have an Excuse: It's Time to Subpoena Clarence Thomas and Harlan Crow.*

Australia has approved the construction of new facilities for handling natural gas near Darwin, which will surely push the Earth closer to busting the carbon budget and collapse of civilization.

The facilities are supposed to include producing "blue hydrogen", which means hydrogen gas generated by consuming fossil fuels and generating carbon emissions. They also include carbon capture and storage, will encourage using more fossil gas but is unlikely to actually eliminate its greenhouse emissions.

If that were not bad bad enough, the currently approved development area comes pretty close to an aboriginal rock art site. If development extends, it could reach that site and endanger it.

Australian rock art is amongst the oldest cultural relics of humanity and no one should have the power to authorize damaging it.

Some people love paradoxes and seek opportunities to claim that they are the whole of reality. For instance, it turns out that color perception is partially socially constructed. One writer leaps from that to the claim that color perceptions are arbitrary mental constructs which have nothing to do with reality.

Plenty of aspects of human perception, thought, and behavior are partially socially constructed, but that doesn't mean they are arbitrary or that they are not constrained by reality.