*Poor housing harms health of 20% of renters in England, says Shelter.*

For 150 years, the British Museum has kept Ethiopian altar tablets hidden and has not allowed them to be studied or photographed. Ethiopians demand the return of these tablets.

Regardless of where the tablets end up, it would be a damned shame if they don't get photographed and studied in the mean time.

Tory supporters are starting to say that the hardship they are now imposing on millions of poor people will be good for them — it will build their character.

The people with the worst character are the rich people that lobby to impose more hardship on those who already suffer it. Perhaps they could use some character-building too.

*The Tories have persuaded voters [that "woke" is] a threat worse than fuel shortages.*

Republicans are using the same approach in the US: using imaginary or exaggerated bugaboos to distract Americans from the real threats such as Covid-19, racism, climate mayhem, and starving the poor.

A curious series of gaps in evidence about whetherKwamena Ocran did or did not shoot a gun at a group of plainclothes thugs had the ultimate effect of protecting them from charges for killing him.