The cost of decommissioning old nuclear power plants in the UK is ballooning, and it is going much more slowly that expected. This is partly because private companies are hired to do it and their executives are too busy padding their expense accounts to focus on doing the job.

Is the US handling this any better?

Planning to take 80 years, or even 40 years, to clean up a deactivated nuclear power plant is totally unrealistic if we do not stop global heating much sooner than that. After 40 years of unchecked global heating, neither the money nor the expertise will be available, as climate disaster will cause enormous problems (such as hunger) that will have to take priority. By 2080 I expect the technology needed will no longer be available, and warlords/kingpins may be fighting. Eventually the ocean will take many of the sites.

In a million years, the radioactive atoms will have mostly decayed and the results will be much less dangerous than they are now. The same may not be true for persistent chemicals such as neonicotinoids and PFAs.

What the UK needs to do is cancel the construction of Hinkley Point C, never mind the sunk costs, and give highest priority to cutting greenhouse gas levels.

100,000 people in Turkey are in jail facing charges of participating in the coup attempt several years ago.

The coup attempt was real and violent, and it is legitimate to try the people who participated in that. But it is impossible to have a secret plan with 100,000 participants. Most of the people accused must be innocent, one way or another.

One real benefit from the UK's departure from the EU: ending the landowner subsidy.

Switzerland considered a law to hold Swiss companies responsible for human rights and environmental crimes in other countries, but it failed to win in a majority of the cantons.

Dissident Hong Kong bookseller Lam Wing-kee has fled to Taiwan and operates a book store there. He warns that we must do more to defend Taiwan.

I think the US should recognize Taiwan and tell China, "We hope to maintain diplomatic relations with China also."