Agencies that send workers to visit demented people at home in the UK have been systematically skimping.

The term "agency" might suggest that this is a state agency, but I suspect that it refers in this case to a profit making business. Can anyone tell me for a fact whether that is so?

If this is a business, I suspect it is making money hand over fist, paying its workers a pittance and charging patients' families for work not done. But I find it hard to believe that the workers initiated the practice and hide the fraud from their employer. I can't help suspecting that the business taught its workers to engage in fraud, and that the state knows about it but looks the other way.

Replacing concrete and steel in construction with sophisticated spiral plywood can reduce CO2 emissions by 40%, because the carbon in the wood never gets converted to CO2.

It can even be fireproof in temperatures that would melt steel.

Queensland proposes to legalize stop-and-search with no specific suspicion.

In the US and in the UK, this is an invitation to racial profiling.

US citizens: call on Congress to keep Ilhan Omar on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Iraq's ancient marshlands, where the Tigris and Euphrates enter the Persian Gulf, are drying out and dying due to global heating with help from other causes.