A thug in the UK was caught on video, threatening to fabricate an accusation against a man who was passing by.

The chief of the department had the decency to condemn the thug's actions unreservedly. That condemnation goes beyond an apology. But this is not enough by itself. It is necessary to punish that thug firmly, so that the others know they won't be winked at if they do this again.

The Western US, from Oregon to New Mexico, has been suffering a deep drought since 2000. Researchers have established that, in the past 1200 years, only one past drought equaled this one.

If this was the worst a drought could be before 1950, global heating now makes worse droughts possible.

Corporations have used disease as an excuse to exclude shareholders from their annual meetings.

This eliminates one of the few methods that were available to the non-rich to put political pressure on corporations.

*Ukraine: wildfires draw dangerously close to Chernobyl site.* Ukraine is alleged to be covering up the danger.

An internal investigation within the Labour Party quotes staff's emails to show that some of the supporters of B'liar and his crew acted to sabotage the party so that Corbyn and his progressive side could not win power.

In other words, Labour's plutocratists were more loyal to plutocracy than to their party or its constituents.