The experiences of a school librarian who right-wing book banners tried to cancel.

Aged Britons are being cut off from many activities that now require a snoop-phone,

There are utilities that won't accept payment by check. That problem is easy to fix: pass a law that important businesses must accept payment by check and must make appointments by phone.

The author takes for granted that snoop-phones and online dis-services are fine things, and the only problem is that they are hard for poor Doris to adapt to. It never crosses her mind that they might be unjust as well. I don't use them because they are unjust and unacceptable. I'm sure I could learn to use them, but I won't yield to them. I suffer some of the same annoyances, though not as many -- the US is not cutting off the traditional non-digital options for old activities such as paying bills.

A thug with a pattern of violence and cover-ups killed Kumanjayi Walker, an aboriginal man, while trying to wrongly arrest him.

The arrest was wrong because it was based on mistaken identity. Everyone makes mistakes like that, but members of disprivileged groups often learn to expect brutality to follow such mistakes. And it appears that that particular thug enjoyed the opportunity to brutalize someone.

Planet roasters claim that policies to curb global heating make energy more expensive. Actually, these investments do the opposite.

If we had started pushing hard for renewable energy 15 years ago, we would not be having much of a price spike now.

What does increase prices is a carbon tax — but that money should be handed out to poor people. All in all, the carbon tax will reduce the cost of living for them, when you count the increased support they will receive.

The article refers to planet roasters as "conservatives", but that term is misleading.

*French court convicts former Liberian rebel commander over atrocities.*