The UK's intentional hostility towards immigrants is keeping out Ukrainians refugees like everyone else.

Putin has proposed to allow civilians to flee from some Ukrainian cities that his army is bombarding; but those fleeing certain cities would be allowed only to go to Russia or Belarus.

Inside Putin's prison is hardly a place of safety.

This offer not serious. It is meant only to carry a message -- but what message? To Ukrainians, it will display contempt, but it will take more than that to demoralize Ukrainians.

It carries a different message to the Putin's supporters around the world. They will take it at face value and present it as the deepest magnanimity.

That could offer us an opportunity to identify some disinformation sites. Anyone who presents this offer of "safety" seriously is one of Putin's disinformation repeaters.

*Our climate solutions are failing - and Big Oil’s fingerprints are all over them.* Oil companies are big participants and sponsors of the work that is supposed to stop them from destroying our ecosystems.

Mikhail Shishkin: *My dear Russians –- the Ukrainians are fighting Putin’s army for their freedom, and ours.*

Almost 200,000 immigrants being considered for deportation from the US are subject to a system of electronic tracking whose operation is outsourced to a company.

Outsourcing government activities to a private company normally leads to lower pay, worse working conditions, and doing a hurried, lousy job. This activity is no exception.

All such outsourcing should be prohibited.

A separate issue is whether tracking people like this is justified. It can be legitimate to place special rules on people present in the US without authorization, but there is still the question of whether it is necessary.