In just 20 years, Britain went from 80% of children going to school on their own, to just 9%.

When foreign academics working for UK research institutions make work-related visits to other countries, the UK rigidly cites that as an excuse not to renew their visas.

I doubt anyone thoughtfully considered the question of how to treat people in that situation. I suspect, rather, that higher officials wrote down a simple policy, with no mention of this kind of situation, and told lower officials that "the priority is to find people to kick out".

Such rigidity generally leads to this kind of problem.

An FSF staff person wanted to work remotely and reside in Germany. Germany refused permission, due to laws intended to stop foreigners from coming there and taking jobs away from Germans.

I understand the reasoning behind that law, but this person did not want to take a German job; on the contrary, person had a US job and wished only to spend the money in Germany. By the same reasoning, Germany should have said, "Please don't leave!"

The troll is reducing the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument specifically to permit coal mining to destroy priceless fossils of the last dinosaurs, just before the last mass extinction.

The coal mining will hasten the next mass extinction.

US exports and export policies encourage obesity; watch out for treaties with the US, since they could block measures to limit obesity.

Everyone: Call on the Delaware River Basin Commission to ban fracking in the Delaware basin.