* If Britain had a functioning democracy, Jeremy Corbyn would be leading a socialist party and Keir Starmer a centre-left one.*

*Taxpayers Subsidize Poverty Wages at Walmart, McDonald's, Other Large Corporations, GAO Finds.*

This would be perhaps acceptable if these corporations paid plenty of income tax (not payroll tax), enough to cover the costs of the shortfall in worker's wages plus what they ought to be paying otherwise.

But since that is not the case, we should raise the minimum wage and charge those companies more taxes.

We should stop using payroll taxes: companies' must not be able to reduce their tax bills by replacing human workers with robots or paying them less.

Starmer has refused to readmit Corbyn as an MP of the Labour Party. His refusal declares a fight between his centrist wing (taking after B'liar, perhaps a little to the left of Bill Clinton) and Corbyn's wing of the party.

I expect Corbyn's supporters would rather make peace than fight. But I must suppose, from this action, that Starmer prefers a fight. I don't think that Corbyn's numerous supporters will give in.

More than Corbyn's own career is at stake. So I expect Corbyn to prepared to run again in his district, with or without Labour backing.

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The global Red Cross warns that climate mayhem will be much worse than Covid-19.

Covid-19 is unlikely to kill more than 100 million people around the world even if we do nothing to interfere — and we can, and will, save many of them. Climate disaster will be far worse, and it will keep on getting worse.