The UK has a backlog of almost 4000 people who it deported, or threatened to deport, because they can't prove that their parents had a right to bring them to the UK as citizens before 1973.

This is referred to as the "Windrush scandal" in reference to the Jamaicans who were invited to move to the UK to work, starting in 1948 on the HMT Windrush.

The UK government's attitude from the beginning has been, "We will deport you unless you prove we can't." This despite having deleted the database that many of them would have needed to cite in order to prove that.

After mistreating people so much, the UK has an obligation to take a forgiving attitude: if a person's case seems valid to the extent it can be checked, say yes.

Mubarak Bala, president of the Humanist Association of Nigeria, was seized (kidnapped?) and taken to a state in Nigeria ruled by Islamist extremists who have imposed Islamic law. He was arrested there, and is likely to be killed there — either executed for "blasphemy" or simply murdered.

Islamic law is unjust and vicious, trampling many human rights.

We in the US are not in danger of having Islamic law imposed on us. The threat here comes from unjust and vicious Christian law. A Christian extremist cult has taken over the Republican Party and is attacking our human rights even as you read this. It threatens our lives, too.

Australia's contact-tracing app sends quite a bit of personal data to a centralized Amazon server. It lets users enter a pseudonym but demands their real phone numbers, so in effect the centralized server will know the identity of each user.

The description of the anonymous IDs that phones will exchange is not clear to me. I can't tell whether this really protects users' privacy or not. I would appreciate a pointer to a report by someone who has studied the real details.

*All military operations across Libya have stopped [for Ramadan] in response to international appeals.*

There is suddenly no market for the corn that the US grows to feed to cattle or produce ethanol.

Growing food plants to make fuel is a tremendous waste and is done only because of foolish government subsidies. We needs to eliminate those subsidies, as I've said for many years.

We should go back to the systems we used for decades after the New Deal, which were designed to keep small farms going

Meanwhile, Americans need to eat less meat, for their own health and the Earth's health.

There is less demand for the cattle, too — partly because meat plants are closing because many of their staff are sick.

If the mountain of corn cannot be used, that waste will be small compared to the waste of growing too much corn each year.