*Under Boris Johnson, corruption is taking hold in Britain.*

Corruption is not just starting to take hold. It was well established in 2013 in the choice of cladding for the apartment building that subsequently had a fatal fire. That was due to insufficient efforts by the state to verify the honesty of construction, which was due to a government that didn't consider this very important.

What is happening now is that corruption is practiced visibly and shamelessly by ministers.

Every market has rules, and society chooses the rules. When people advocate a "free market", what they mean is one with rules that favor the most powerful. In our times, that choice is a one for most people, and we don't have an obligation to accept it.

*Covid used as pretext to curtail civil rights around the world, finds report.*

One increase in surveillance that they may not mention is when countries encourage (or even order) people to stop paying cash. One way to defend your freedom is to insist on paying cash when you buy things — I always do.

Countries whose freedom ratings were reduced this year include the US, Costa Rica, Ivory Coast, Iraq, the Philippines and Slovenia.

*Greenhouse gas emissions transforming the Arctic into 'an entirely different climate'.*

Eritrean troops are fighting in Tigray against the TPLF and alongside the Ethiopian army.

Eritrean is famous for forcing all most men into slave labor; as a result, many Eritrean men flee into exile.