*How [government PR about] "living with Covid" is helping keep England's infections stubbornly high.*

This applies more or less to the US as well.

(satire) *EPA Closes Down After Running Out Of Salvageable Environment To Protect.*

If an Onion page appears blank, try disabling JavaScript entirely or telling LibreJS to blacklist all scripts on the page, then right-click and select the item "Reveal hidden HTML". Or use a browser such as lynx that doesn't implement JavaScript and CSS.

The Tories plan to promote more flying in the UK, presuming that future technology will eliminate the greenhouse gas emissions of all those flights.

Betting on future technology to reduce the greenhouse emissions of common activities is utterly foolish. Lobbyists always present such a bet as a sure thing, or close enough one can treat it as a sure thing. They are surely exaggerating, and we must not trust them.

A New Zealand company sued a US web service demanding it identify the people who posted harsh reviews of the company as an employer. The US court decided the case based on New Zealand's laws, which don't protect free speech as the US does.

The weakness of protection of freedom of speech outside the US is one of the main reasons I have been reluctant to live outside the US. The other countries are not getting better, not at all, but the Christian Taliban threaten to make the US far, far worse.

Republicans are lying about and threatening the Indiana doctor who carried out an abortion on a 10-year-old rape victim, who was compelled to go Indiana because Ohio's right-wing law did not allow her to get an abortion there.

Many Republicans now actively defend forcing people who have been raped to have babies. It is consistent with their religious beliefs, and it shows how cruel and arbitrary those beliefs are.