UK "academies", somewhat like US charter schools, tend to have the same problems as the ordinary state schools they replace.

In the US, the impetus for school privatization comes from those who desire to divert public funding into their pockets. I suspect there is an ulterior motive in the UK as well.

Thailand's dictatorship plans to restrict foreign journalists like China.

A part of President Clinton's "welfare reform" is about to take delayed effect, cutting off food stamps for at least half a million long-term-unemployed Americans.

We have not yet seen the full damage that that law will eventually do, but Hillary Clinton still supports it.

Sanders endorses a carbon tax and banning fracking.

Obama is arranging for various government agencies to look through the NSA's data collections to fish for opportunities to prosecute Americans.

The lesson is, "emergency" powers that the government takes to cope with some mind-clouding threat will tend to be used for everything.