The expectancy of healthy life in England is now almost 20 years less for poor people than for better-off people.

This is surely due to the ever-increasing privations imposed by plutocratist politicians, specifically Tories.

I wonder how large this difference was in 2005, during the last time Labour was in power.

*How bad do things have to get in Britain before we start to see solidarity emerge?* There is no telling how bad, because the right wing flies into mad hatred when anyone shows a hint of supporting a left-wing cause.

It is no longer possible to give the Human Rights Press Awards in Hong Kong. Giving the award would be considered a crime. The winners would very likely have been charged already.

I would suggest that the club continue to have a press freedom committee, and state publicly that it no longer has any members.

Rebecca Solnit: *Ukraine has taught us all a lesson in moral courage.*

This lesson is applicable to any cause that requires making sacrifices for the general good — even when they are smaller sacrifices that don't generally involve violence and wounds. Climate defense, and defeating nonfree software, are two of many examples.

Erdoğan displays his Humpty Dumpty idea of justice: the nonviolent protest in Gezi Park declared "trying to overthrow the government".

The world is about to have a shortage of the main kinds of vegetable oils. Global heating is implicated for most of them.