The UK is concealing thousands of injuries done to minors in private prisons. These injuries range from suffocation to broken bones. The companies falsify records and deny the victims medical treatment. But hey, they have to make money, right?

To allow a privately run prison is to invite injustice. This practice must be abolished. More generally, no government function should be privatized unless that gives the public the benefit of a competitive market.

New elections are not enough to right the wrongs of Haiti's rotten political system.

US intervention is largely to blame for the rottenness, what with forcibly removing President Aristide and imposing the former president Martelly.

Turkey has shelled Kurds (or rather some Arab allies) that captured an air base in Northern Syria.

According to Wikipedia, Azaz was held by al-Nusra (al-Qa'ida) together with other Syrian rebels; the Kurds cooperated with Russia to take it.

I can't begin to figure out what this implies.

Warner/Chappell has agreed that it has no copyright on "Happy Birthday to You", and will compensate those that it made to pay royalties before.

The song is probably in the public domain, but there is no way to prove that.

The London "Garden Bridge" boondoggle, approved in a corrupt way, would drain the public treasury uselessly at a time when the government is cutting public libraries, squeezing the NHS, and driving poor families onto the street.