The Tories have recognized that the privatized bus lines of the UK (outside the London metropolitan area) are a useless subsidy for businesses, but their proposed solution won't change much.

A former NHS nurse is telling people that vaccination is comparable to Nazi war crimes, and encouraging in a vague way threats against NHS staff.

Shemirani's absurd claims are indeed reprehensible and dangerous. Not surprisingly, there are calls to criminalize them now if that has not already been done.

However, we cannot make a free society by jailing people for expressing hostility and saying things the government designates as reprehensible and dangerous. It is not merely possible that this will lead to repression, it is virtually certain given the censorious spirit that rules in the UK. Here's an example in Fiji.

The UK must refute Shemirani's raving falsehoods with truth, not with a gag.

China is suffering a disaster of extreme rains and flooding. Will this convince Xi to give higher priority to decarbonization? We must hope so.

To call an individual "toxic" is to essentialize per behavior. It is misguided to put all the blame on one person, disregards the point that perse is responding to the structure of the situation, and denies the possibility that people can learn to act better.

Canada has accorded a river the false status of "living entity".

This concept carries a practical danger that most activists do not recognize: it will be hard to fight the idea that corporations are "persons" if we tolerate the idea that rivers are "persons."

An ecosystem is not a person, not even an organism. It can't exercise rights, but it can be worth protecting.

Let's put aside this absurdity. We can make laws to protect rivers, in whatever way we determine is needed, without endorsing flagrant irrationalism.