A low-traffic neighborhood in the UK has a one-time cost of 100 UKP per person (or less) to build, and save 200 UKP per person per year by benefits to health.

I think those benefits come from (1) more exercise and (2) less pollution.

In the 1980s, the Tories used the government's intelligence agency to attack the striking miners' union, which they sought to destroy.

SCROTUS has put a budget resolution on the table, to be voted on, which would set up a secret committee to impose cuts in Social Security and Medicare.

That will serve their declared goals of less for the non-rich and more for the rich, which I refer to as dooH niboR.

US citizens: phone your representative in Congress and say to preserve funding for the IRS. Thanks to Biden it uses that money to investigate rich tax cheaters.

If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121

Tory budget cuts have forced several British local governments into bankruptcy; now they are using that as an excuse to inflict cuts on local programs that the non-rich depend on. The US did the same thing to Puerto Rico some years ago, with a financial "bailout" that turned the island's elected legislature into repo men for creditors.

Starmer-Labour supported the Tory imposition by threatening to expel members of the council if they did not rubber-stamp the cuts. This confirms once again that Starmer-Labour is actually Tory Lite. They should have quit the Labour Party right then and there.

They could start the Robin Hood Party.