The new owners of low-income housing in London, who plan to evict the poor to raise the rents, will evade taxes on the increased income.

I hope the victims organize physical resistance to the evictions, and to further use of the building by the anonymous new owners.

Hong Kong thugs arrested two of the main protest leaders.

The multiple traumas inflicted on Americans are causing a massive breakdown.

The Atlantic mackerel catch limit has been reduced 25%. Since the fish stock is at quite a low level, I think it is nuts to allow people to catch any of them. To try to fine-tune catch levels presumes more knowledge than we really have. We should do everything possible to give the fish a chance to bounce back; if they do, then we can start catching them again, with luck much more of them than now.

US targeted 24 specific men in Pakistan with multiple drone bombings each. The bombings killed only 6 of them, but killed 868 other people including about 140 children.

Some fraction of the other people killed may have been Taliban soldiers, but clearly a large fraction were bystanders and relatives.