British teachers are fed up with the cruelty that thugs stationed in schools display towards students, and voted to call for the thugs' removal.

In my view, the race of the students who are treated cruelly is an insignificant detail, because it would be wrong regardless of who is the victim. But it doesn't surprise me that bigotry and cruelty tend to go together. That pattern is widespread: bigotry brings out a person's tendency towards cruelty.

*Sunscreen chemicals accumulating in Mediterranean seagrass… UV filters absorbed by Posidonia oceanica may have damaging effects on ecosystems, scientists warn.*

Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice O'Connor is a Republican who still has an idea of civic duty. So she rejects gerrymandering designed to rig elections. Modern Republicans want to impeach her for that.

The difference between the two parties is clear. Democrats will impeach you for trying to steal an election. Republicans will impeach you for not trying to steal an election.

*Herd immunity now seems impossible. Welcome to the age of Covid reinfection.*

I am glad to see some attention given to the problem of long Covid. If vaccination continues to make death unlikely, I think the main long-term harm done by Covid-19 will be the steady accumulation of people disabled by it.

However, treating and helping those disabled by it, as the author proposes, is not enough. We need to reduce the number of people that are disabled by Covid-19 over the coming years.

The global food shortage threatens a quarter of a billion people with extreme poverty.

The more stressed our food systems become, the smaller the margin of safety. Increasing production increases environmental damage. Each increase in efficiency is harder than the previous one.

The long-term solution is to reduce the human birth rate.