The Tories have cut off welfare benefits for children after the first two in a family. Research shows that this does not reduce the number of children in a family, it only increases the number of children growing up in poverty.

Poverty often results when people lack the ability to make good plans, or the ability to stick to a plan. It is hard to fill those lacks by punishing people.

I don't know whether Tories were seriously seeking to avoid overpopulation, or only used it as an excuse to keep more money for the wealthy. No children should grow up in poverty, but it is very important for people to have fewer children.

*US power outages from severe weather have doubled in 20 years.* Mostly because severe weather happens more often, due to global heating effects.

*Sri Lanka faces medical emergency as economic crisis hits drug supplies.*

Looming behind the cheater's Big Lie is another Big Lie: that the US economy as it exists nowadays works for everyone.

The Taliban have banned opium cultivation again.

Prohibition is not a solution to the problem of opiates and opioids.