A preliminary investigation found "credible evidence of attempts by Russia to interfere with the UK’s electoral processes," but the UK has failed to investigate further to reach a conclusion. Some UK elected officials have asked the European Court of Human Rights to demand that the UK do so.

Why would the Tories choose not to investigate? Perhaps because the intervention helped the Tories.

Robert Reich: *Inflation Won't Be Remedied by the Federal Reserve Imposing Higher Interest Rates. The result is likely to be a recession.*

Scientific institutions are going overboard in cutting scientific cooperation with Russian institutions and Russian scientists.

Scientists should cooperate regardless of wars, as long as their work is not related in the short term to military use.

On the third anniversary of Julian Assange's expulsion from the Ecuadorian embassy, rally from 11am to 2:45pm in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the park opposite the British Consulate (which is 245 Main Street).

*Push for new UK nuclear plants lacks facility for [radioactive] waste.*

It is hard to be sure that a radioactive waste storage facility will continue operating for tens or hundreds of thousands of years, especially if it will require continual attention during that time. Especially since we don't know whether technological civilization will still exist 50 or 100 years from now.

Besides which, nuclear power plants are so expensive that it would be preferable to build renewable generation plus energy storage facilities, and avoid the nuclear waste entirely.