*Tory austerity caused misery — and now they want to make it worse.*

Refugees trapped between Belarus and Poland are dying from hunger and cold.

The construction of a pipeline — even if its contents will be gas — can cause lasting ecological damage even before anything flows through it.

If these were the only problems of pipelines, they could be prevented by building it in more expensive ways. But they aren't the only ones, of course. We can't afford the existence of more fossil fuel infrastructure.

Many organizations are working to convince the UK to tax petroleum-burning vehicles less tax and electric vehicles more.

If the government seeks to promote electric vehicles, this tax change is foolish.

Memorial, a Russian NGO, defends human rights and teaches about Stalin's crimes against humanity. It showed a movie about the mass starvation of the 1930s, and a gang attacked the showing, apparently with state backing.

Putin is teaching Russians to admire Stalin, perhaps figuring that if they admire one tyrant they will be happy with another.