Spreading in the UK: boroughs where no state school even offers the advanced high school classes that universities expect entering students to take.

This results from the combination of two aspects of Tory plutocracy:

• Children of low-income families are not worth spending money on.
• They should be content with precarious low-skill jobs on zero-hour contracts.

China is considering blocking access to all non-Chinese internet domains.

This would amount to cutting China off from most of the world's internet entirely.

US Girl Scouts' rules say that even high school students are not allowed to sell cookies without an adult's supervision.

Israel has adopted higher taxes for bank executives' pay above a certain limit.

It is a step in the right direction, but I would do it in a more general way, by adding higher tax brackets with higher tax rates.

Breaking the Silence, which organizes former Israeli soldiers to witness the crimes they committed or saw other soldiers commit, is now the target of a right-wing phony scandal, comparable to the one cooked up against Planned Parenthood and previously against ACORN.