The Tories policy towards disabled Britons amounts to war.

The new prison for the Manus refugees is "still a construction site".

Since they were put there by force, and since envoys such as Costello are blocked from entering, it is clearly a prison.

Richard Cordray, resigning as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has named a deputy director who will automatically run the agency until Republicans formally install a saboteur to wreck it. Even then, the saboteur will face a fight.

Proposed order: a 1000-pound fine for sleeping in a tent on a street in a town in England.

Homeless people can show their contempt for this cruel order by daring the court to fine them again, again, and again — and each time, responding, "fat chance you'll ever get that money out of me."

Many companies engage in veiled advertising by paying celebrities to promote their products and pretend to be disinterested.