*Chinese doctors and nurses reportedly told to work while infected as Covid surges.*

In the US, this is achieved by denying workers paid sick leave. They can't afford to do the right thing and avoid infecting follow workers, even customers.

The infection is spreading very fast. I presume it is one of the recent Omicron variants. At least that will reduce the number of deaths and serious injuries.

Drivers in London forcibly moved Just Stop Oil protesters out of the road.

I agree fully with the Just Stop Oil's arguments for these protests. If you think being delayed for half an hour is painful, wait and see what food rationing feels like, or a flood or wildfire smoke or heat prostration.

But if this approach to protesting inspires the passersby to fight the protesters, it is not useful or constructive.

Here are suggestions for new tactics for climate protesters.

Ukraine's plans to reconquer Crimea militarily may be impossible or unwise.

The places that Russaian troops were stationed since 2014 include, as a fact, parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, but Putin always denied that this was the case. He should not be invited to acknowledge it belatedly now and reap any benefit.

To negotiate the fate of Crimea is more sensible. An honest election would have been a legitimate approach in 2014, but Putin drove out or exiled those who supported Ukraine, then (according to this article) lost anyway and lied about the result.

Putin's elections in Russia are blatantly dishonest.

The population of Crimea today is different from the population in 2014. If an election is to be held now about which country Crimea should belong to, which people should vote in it? To give the decision to the current population would mean that Putin (or anyone else) can conquer territory and legitimize that with an unfair election. To give the decision to the 2014 population might be asking for further violence.

The incredibly complex history of reprocessing and disposing of nuclear waste in the UK.

In theory, the process is clearly simple. In practice, it keeps getting more complex.

*Flying insect numbers plunge 64% since 2004, UK survey finds.*

Some years ago, a similar decline was observed in Germany.

This portends ecological disaster.