The company that makes James Bond films gets millions in subsidies from the UK and pays no tax in the UK, since the profit from the films is all assigned to other companies in other countries.

If the UK wants to pay, in normal times, for people to do work, why not pay them to do work that the public needs, such as medical care for the NHS and home assistance for people who are sick or handicapped?

Under my global progressive tax scheme, those companies would be treated as one entity for computing its tax rate, and the UK part would pay that rate on its gross income.

*Wichita man arrested for threatening to kidnap, kill mayor over mask mandate.*

Some of the kooks who would murder because of hatred for masks are also nuts enough to say so. But we cannot expect that to protect us from all of them. We need to stop officials from inciting violence.

*With Zuck's Blessing, Facebook Quietly Stymied Traffic to Left-Leaning News Outlets.*

The sites that suffered were not very leftist. One example cited was Mother Jones.

People who were prisoners in North Korea describe violent torture including rape, used to force confessions.

One of the reasons the US must eradicate its own torture is so that it can speak with moral authority when condemning torture by North Korea and other countries.

The US has not taken steps adequate to ensure that the CIA doesn't torture prisoners in the future. On the contrary, appointing Gina Haspel to head it was an indirect but clear endorsement of torture.

France is investigating 50 Islamist organizations on the suspicion that they promote hatred and violence.