Michigan has used an sneaky and arguably dishonest legal maneuver to drop the criminal charges against state officials accused of poisoning the people of Flint.

An Australian lawyer, Bernard Collaery, calls for reforms in the National Security Information Act which allowed the government to put his client, a whistleblower, and Collaery himself on trial secretly.

The national shame that they revealed was that Australia spied on East Timor's negotiators in order to impose a disadvantageous deal on East Timor about undersea fossil fuel reserves between the two countries.

That deal was eventually replaced with a fairer deal, but both versions of the deal were dangerous for humanity because both permitted the fossil fuels to be extracted and burnt. The only safe thing to do with new fossil fuel reserves is keep them in the ground.

Proposed new Tory policy would make it nearly impossible to get political asylum in the UK, and violate UN treaties.

*‘Brexit freedoms bill’ could abolish all pesticide protections, campaigners say.*

*The liberal belief that diversity would have a mellowing or eradicating effect on racism has proven to be a costly fallacy.*

Instead, Tories and other powerful organizations have learned to present their "diversity" as an excuse for policies that contribute to systemic racism, as they actively boost systemic class prejudice.

Is Kwasi Kwarteng "superficially black"? Anyone's skin color is superficial. Rupa Huq's error was in treating that superficial characteristic as determining what a person ought to think and feel. In effect, a form of stereotyping that denies people's diverse forms of lived experience and the values they develop.

I don't think it was necessary to formally punish Huq for expressing that erroneous concept. Surely there was a way to help her clarify it in her mind.

Kwarteng has a duty to have a heart for the poor and those that the powerful mistreat. But the reason is not his skin color. If that were the reason, it would follow that white Tories were excused for lacking one.

The valid reason is that everyone has this duty.