A UK citizen, prisoner in Somalia, says he is being tortured with UK connivance to pressure him to work for the CIA. He says that FBI agents questioned him in the prison where he is being tortured, including by waterboarding.

Japanese officers were executed for waterboarding US prisoners of war during World War II. I condemn the death penalty, but we must punish torture, including torture by Americans.

Bogus Johnson talks about "levelling up", meaning to raise the standard of living in the poorer areas north of London, but the measures he proposes are nowhere near adequate to achieve that.

Tories propose inadequate measures because they are not really interested in helping anyone that is poor. If Britons really want to reduce poverty in the UK, they need to make Corbyn prime minister.

A recent analysis finds the global economy following paths forecast in 1972 by The Limits to Growth.

Resource scarcity has not been a big problem thus far, but we do face challenges in resources for making batteries. Population growth has not caused a disaster, but it is still heading for one.

The UK uses a dumb automated contract-tracing app which tells the user to stay home for 10 days when it detects a possible contact. Just now it has told so many people to stay home that many of society's systems are failing, including trains, hospitals and food distribution.

Contact tracing is a very important method of keeping Covid-19 in check, but it is usable only when the infection rate is low enough that the burden of isolating the contacts is bearable. The UK has too high a level of infection.

Contact tracing in the UK never worked as well as it should have, because the Tory government applied its usual bad management and its usual corrupt contracting.

This problem is one of many consequences of the underlying bad approach: allowing Delta to run almost unimpeded through the population by ending nearly all measures to hold it back.

Canadians plan painstaking analysis of the bones of deceased indigenous children, buried next to the schools they were forced to attend. This could determine what killed some of them.

Direct physical evidence of mistreatment of specific people will make it hard to disregard the horror of those schools.