The Unite labor union will cut its donation to the new, "centrist" Labour Party.

I am sad to say I don't think this will change Starmer's politics. He must have a powerful reason to have chosen the mission to ensure that no one like Corbyn ever leads the Labour Party again.

British parents asked the thug department to help them get their daughters back from PISSI. All the thugs cared about was interrogating the parents then they exiled the daughters without talking with them.

Fossil fuel companies such as Exxon are running big ad campaigns on podcasts, claiming that they will cure global heating with carbon capture — which is unlikely ever to work well enough to make a difference.

Climate defenders have sued the UK government for establishing a plan for billions in subsidies for fossil fuel extraction.

Nevada's Supreme Court ruled that a gun company cannot be liable if a person uses its product for murder.

I think the judge's ruling is the only proper decision. For any product that can be used as a weapon, society has basically two choices: permit people to make, sell, buy and own that product, or forbid it.

If society decides to permit the product, it must not hold the maker liable for crimes committed using it. To do that would make production so dangerous that no one would dare produce it; in practice, production would be indirectly prohibited. This applies not only to products that are weapons, but also to other products which are not intended as weapons, but are dangerous -- for instance, table knives.

It is wrong for society to prohibit _anything_ indirectly via unpredictable third-party liability. (Can you name something else that is now being prohibited indirectly in parts of the US?) If society decides to prohibit making, selling, buying and owning a certain kind of product, it should do so explicitly and directly, not by letting others sue the makers into bankruptcy.

I support prohibiting AR-15 rifles, and other guns that can be converted in effect into machine guns with a convenient add-on. Those guns make more danger; as far I can see, there is nothing good about them that could outweigh that reason to prohibit them.