If a country installs Huawei wireless networks, it would be impossible to prevent China from spying on them. The same is surely true with with US wireless networks: it would be impossible to keep the US from spying on them.

The Australian government may not mind if the US spies on Australians. Indeed, reports are that the US government spies on Australians and gives the data to the Australian government so that it can bypass the legal protections of Australian law (and vice versa). Still it seems foolish to build in vulnerability like that.

Americans have learned to recognize the reasons to decriminalize sex work, and many Democratic politicians too.

*Companies [in France] to be banned from destroying unsold clothes, cosmetics and other items.*

They will have to be put to some use, recycled, or given away.

Sanders has introduced a bill to tax companies that make PFAS to pay for water treatment to take them out of the water supply.

The Tories' welfare reform (a plan that shuffled benefits around so as to disguise how much it cut them) is "sending people into arms of loan sharks."