Since the Tories took power in 2010, they have cut local government funds especially in the poorer areas, which (perhaps not coincidentally) had elected local officials from the Labour party.

The Tories did this by making numerous changes in the formulas, and most of the changes tended to privilege wealthier areas. So they could punish Labour — or was it, punish the poor? — in a disguised way.

*Fear mounts bullshitter may pressure FDA to rush Covid-19 vaccine by election.* In other words, approve it without proper testing.

You can see how powerful the anti-vax conspiracy theory is even with no factual basis. Imagine would would happen if the saboteur in chief contrives to give it a factual basis.

*Report finds not one police department in the 20 largest American cities are compliant with international rights laws.*

These failings relate directly to the killings that Americans are protesting now.

Bolton's book describes the conmen as betraying the US, now to Russia, now to China. There is almost nthing to prevent a president from doing this except if per party will desert per for it.

Some of the refugees that arrive in Greece from Turkey find that Greece denies that they ever arrived. What really happens to them is not known.