*"Surely a chancellor wouldn’t choose to do the wrong things, knowingly, when he has the power to set the country in a better direction?"* Oops, he's a Tory.

Thousands of Cubans are seeking asylum in the US, or in Mexico.

*US man charged in Capitol attack gets asylum in Belarus.* This further demonstrates the alliance between the wrecker and Putin.

Edward Snowden must be extremely embarrassed to be stuck in Russia. He isn't there by choice. He never intended to stop there — he simply had a flight connection through Moscow. He was blocked from boarding his next flight because the US had revoked his passport.

The US contrived to block his later efforts to travel onward; the US had its allies violate the diplomatic rights of Bolivia by forcing a search of the president's plane to look for Snowden. (He wasn't in it.)

This was just one step less nasty than what Lukashenko did to seize a Belarusian dissident from an airliner that was crossing Belarus.

* A Tennessee [thug] fired his stun gun at a food delivery man who had begun recording his traffic stop for speeding and asked to see the officer’s supervisor.*

The UK is planning to follow the US and Australia in making it a crime for refugees to go there and ask for asylum.