* Vaping is substantially less harmful than smoking, according to a major review of nicotine products, but action is needed to tackle the sharp rise in e-cigarette use among [minors].*

The article says "children" referring to students in "secondary schools", people who are teenagers, not children. I support efforts to discourage them from using nicotine, but calling them "children" is not going to win their cooperation on this or anything else.

* Environmental damage of producing [Bitcoin] averages 35% of its market value over past five years.*

Crown Prince Bone Saw is switching to the Putin camp.

It makes some sense, in terms of pure selfishness, that two major oil exporters with no goal other than greed would get together in this way.

George Monbiot: *Rightwing thinktanks run this government. But first, they had to capture the BBC.*

Monbiot explains that these "think tanks" are effectively lobbyists that conceal their clients. I suspect they are called "think tanks" because they are the equivalent, in the field of political persuasion, of armored vehicles with treads and cannons.

Liz Truss follows the doctrinaire dooH niboR philosophy introduced by Margaret Thatcher, who promised increased total economic growth in exchange for greater poverty. She delivered the poverty but economic growth went down.

Now Labour needs the courage to reject the bogus assumptions and values underlying that plutocratist plan.

It could get that courage from Corbyn.

*House Democratic Leadership Designed Stock Trade Ban to Fail, Negotiators Say.*