*Last chance for the Persian leopard: the fight to save Iraqi Kurdistan’s forests. Minefields left over from the Iran-Iraq war are one of the last bastions against illegal logging and poaching.*

China seems to have engineered a bizarre gunless border skirmish with India. Medieval weapons that were deadly hundreds of years ago can still be deadly today.

My theory is that Xi figures that the world is already disgusted with China, and can't get much more disgusted, so why not do every disgusting thing he would like to do, right now?

*Culture wars risk blinding us to just how liberal we've become in the past decades (in the UK).*

Now if only people didn't get so distracted by identity politics.

Over a million children in Britain are expected to go hungry in the next few months. Over two million are being abused at home.

The article proposes how the UK could help children and young people recover from the harm done by lockdown. It does not mention, though, the need to stop global heating, lest its effects kill most of them before they get old.

The bullshitter wants his supporters to admire him for (according to him) covering up the spread of Covid-19 in the US.

Whether he actually did that, I don't know. He said he did, but that means nothing. Then his staff said that statement was a joke, but that means nothing. What we can be certain of is that he would not scruple to do that — and that's all we really need to know about him.