Twitter says it has banned the bullshitter for life.

That is important. There are other Republicans who can invent a new lie every day, but they probably can't do it with same effect as he.

Some sobering facts about global heating.

178 million hectares (of lost forests) are about 700,000 square miles.

Governments that fail to support working people so that they can stay away from work are putting everyone in danger. Firstly, this spreads Covid-19, making more people sick. Secondly, it makes more chance for the virus to mutate and perhaps become more dangerous.

*GameStop Fiasco Proves We Need a Financial Transaction Tax.*

The original reason for proposing that tax was to reduce volatility of stocks and commodities. Collecting revenue from rich people is a secondary benefit.

The UK government has agreed to pay some part of the costs of replacing flammable cladding on the outside of apartment buildings.

This is a classic instance of a job that the government ought to handle. The Tories' years of refusal reflect the ideology of privatization, of business over people.