Resistance to business power in technical fields has been undermined by cyberlibertarianism, a blind faith that technology will correct injustices.

The UK's Food and Environment Research Agency is threatened with privatization, which would mean a chance to corrupt it directly.

I can think of some companies that would like to invest in FERA's research into the effects of pesticides.

In Greece and in the UK, politicians trumpet a "recovery" that is fictional.

The fiction is even deeper than what the article says. Even per-capita GDP is no measure of how well off the non-rich are in a country. It is skewed by the rising incomes of the rich.

UK prisons have banned steel-string guitars, as part of the same massive dose of irrational strictness that banned giving prisoners books.

As a result, 350 steel-string guitars donated to prisons to encourage rehabilitation can no longer do that.

The UN must be less cautious about delivering humanitarian aid to besieged Syrians.