On the futile demand for "climate justice".

The supporters of this demand are responding to the level of disaster that we have seen in the past few years — disasters that civilization, countries, and international trade can for the most part survive, albeit with considerable pain. To rebuild after these disasters is well within the capabilities of wealthy countries.

After a disaster of that level, a country can find those responsible and make them compensate those who suffered the most. It would be right to do so.

Global heating disaster is going to be far too bad for compensation. To measure the damages in money would give a meaningless number, far beyond what anyone could pay. The countries that today are wealthy will by that time be struggling to save the lives of most of their own people — and eventually fail to do so. If you had that much money, in Africa, say, you couldn't buy feed the hungry with it, as food will be scarce globally.

Our priority for action, and our main demand, must be to reduce the extent of the coming disaster.

The CIA predicted the Putin forces would rapidly conquer Ukraine. Asked to explain this failure to predict correctly, they say they underestimated the effect of the pervasive corruption in Russia.

The US also suffers from pervasive corruption — less than Russia historically, but Republicans' by-hook-or-by-crook attitude is boosting it. The military-industrial complex is a major center of corruption. I hope Congress thinks about this when funding more F35 airplanes.

Dissident TV journalist Marina Ovsyannikova has fled from house arrest in Russia. She faces possibly 10 years in prison for criticizing Putin on live TV in March.

Much like his some-time American ally, the corrupter, Putin any reports that contradict his propaganda "fake news". Putin has made that a crime and prosecutes people for it. The corrupter would do the same, if he could.

High School girls in Iran are now protesting against clothing restrictions.

The Iranian regime is nonplussed by masses of young women, even girls, who are burning their veils in public and chanting "Death to Khamenei."

I speculate that it is a mistake for the US to apply additional sanctions — surely minuscule in their practical effect — since that lends justification to the regimes' claim that the protesters are in cahoots with the US. As far as can see, there is nothing effective that the US can do to help the protesters.

* The RSPB, National Trust, green farmers and anti-frackers all got it in the neck at the Conservative conference.*

Is "growth" a desirable goal? Putting aside the deeper long-term questions about whether further economic growth is sustainable, it is clear that "growth" under plutocratist Tories would go to the wealthy, and would not benefit most Britons. Why should that kind of "growth" be a valid goal for government policies?

Greenpeace activists: *No one voted for Liz Truss's policies. That's why we stormed her conference speech.*

That statement is basically true, but it exaggerates: some small number of Britons did vote for them. Truss is an MP and won that seat in a district election. A minority of the Tory MPs agree with her, and some Britons voted for them. But these voters add up to far too few to win a national election.

*Greenpeace UK analysis has identified at least seven areas across environmental protection, climate action, workers’ rights and tackling inequality where policies either confirmed or being considered by Truss and her ministers are at odds with the 2019 Conservative manifesto.*