The brilliant new idea for our plutocratist medical system is an Uber for nurses.

Imagine getting treated by a nurse that has no sick pay and therefore desperately needs to work even when sick. In principle, it is not much different from eating a sandwich made by a cook that has no sick pay and therefore desperately needs to work even when sick. Both are plutocracy at work and we should not allow them to occur. But we need to make it safe to go to a clinic.

At least the nurse will wear a mask.

Norway demonstrated the way to make electric cars catch on fast: with lots of financial incentives.

Watch out for the efforts to eliminate one financial incentive to reduce fossil fuel consumption — by replacing the fuel tax with "road pricing".

Daniel Ellsberg argues that it would make no strategic sense to retaliate for a large nuclear attack.

Rich people overestimate the income of most Americans, and underestimate what they need to pay for housing.

*Oligarchs from authoritarian countries use London law firms to intimidate journalists, MPs say.*