The UK government goes to great lengths to investigate welfare fraud, even demanding information from the NHS.

Investigating benefits fraud would be legitimate if the support one could get by being honest were adequate to live on. As in the US, what motivates the overemphasis on poor people's frauds rather than rich people's frauds as well as the push to reduce welfare for the poor in order to increase welfare for the rich is the cruel attitude of despising poor people and blaming them for their poverty.

Florida's governor, DeSantis, took the initiative to offer special "pop-up" vaccination for two zip-codes whose residents happen to be particularly wealthy.

DeSantis was previously known for covering up statistics about deaths from Covid-19, and prosecuting the whistleblower who arranged to leak the true numbers.

Texas's gas-fired power plants failed due to cold.

Republican deregulation enabled and encourage Texas's electric utilities to save money by not preparing for winter storms.

The power grid should be run by the state so it will be accountable.

Texas cities kept the electricity on in downtown areas because of the critical facilities there. This had the side effect of keeping power on for business that wasted power on lights for publicity.

Maybe there needs to be a law that the city can order a building to turn off all external lights and all light in rooms that no one is in. This will make more power available to keep the current on in other neighborhoods.

Cavities in Siberia, filled with methane, are producing large craters when they explosively release the methane into the atmosphere.

Britain, Canada and Norway pretend to be leaders in reducing greenhouse gas emissions while exporting lots of fossil fuel.