Russia's economy is hardly vulnerable to economic sanctions.

Some Russian oligarchs give or route money to the Tory Party.

When several southern states adopted "stand your ground and kill" laws, the rate of deaths by shooting increased immediately by 16 to 32 percent.

Curiously, there was no such increase in states elsewhere in the US that did the same thing.

* "For the one in four people in the U.K. who are clinically vulnerable, the current approach appears a perilous and politicized pandemic response," wrote more than 2,000 physicians and scientists.*

London trains and buses no longer require people to wear masks.

This means considerable danger for clinically vulnerable people who don't have cars, if they travel anywhere. And this is for the sake of a small degree of comfort for the other passengers.

Starmer declares that the UK Labour Party will treat business as a "partner", which will put non-rich people in second place. Labour will become the milder plutocratist version of the Tories, just as "mainstream" Democrats are the milder plutocratist version of the Republican Party before that turned into the right-wing extremist party.