Urging western tourism companies to stop selling package travel through Xinjiang into areas where Uygurs are being brainwashed.

It may be romantically exciting to imagine visiting Xinjiang and pulling back the curtain or deception, but the Chinese who operate the curtain are skilled experts whereas you would be encountering it for the first time. Whatever move you try, they would surely have training and experience at countering.

It is wiser to leave that sort of thing to people who are themselves experts.

Most Democratic voters would rather that Biden step aside in 2024, but few can name a candidate they would prefer.

I would certainly prefer Bernie Sanders.

Biden is a strange mixture. He has done a number of things that surprised me for how progressive they were. And he has partly achieved other progressive programs to the extent progressives could get them through Congress. On the other hand, he keeps handing planet roasters and other plutocrats gratuitous victories.

*Rishi Sunak hopes for warm welcome at G20 as India’s "son-in-law".* This warm welcome would be a business-supremacy treaty that did not disadvantage British plutocrats too much compared with Indian plutocrats.

What we see, therefore, is a less rich oligarch sucking up to a richer oligarch.

Australia fines drivers, even cancels their driving licenses, if occasionally a passenger does not wear a seat belt.

This is are a system of collective responsibility: "Hey you! Monitor those others near you, or we will punish you!" This attitude towards people is an injustice in general.

Since 1975 I have made a practice of wearing my seat belt. for safety, whether driving or riding as a passenger. But there is one exception: when I need to sleep. I have never found a way to sleep with a seat belt rubbing on my shoulder — it changes my posture. If I am compelled to wear the seat belt because the driver has been conscripted into forcing me, I will not be able to sleep and I may get sick.

So I regard that system as an injustice.

If the system permitted me to wear the lap belt but not the shoulder belt, I would certainly do that, since the lap belt does not stop me from sleeping. But nowadays they don't support that mode of use.

Australian uniformed thugs worked very hard to come up with evidence to convict Jason Roberts of killing two thugs. There wasn't enough real evidence, so they had to fake it.