Nathan Law, in exile from Hong Kong, cannot contact his relatives at all, since China would seize the opportunity to pressure him by punishing them.

I don't see any hope for Hong Kong; I think China will turn it into a hell that terrifies people into suppressing their thoughts until they forget how to think them. However, crushing Hong Kong is one step on a path of conquest and tyranny, and the more the response to that crushing sets China back, the less harm China will be able to do.

The redirection of UK medicine to treating Covid-19 instead of other diseases will end up having caused tens of thousands of avoidable deaths from cancer due to failure to treat it early.

I expect there were many more deaths due to failure to treat other diseases.

The way to avoid this is to stay ahead of Covid-19 with measures strong enough to keep the infection rate going down. R approximately 1 is like a pencil balanced on its point — it won't stay at 1.

A brief life of Paul Stephenson, a hero of desegregation in the UK and the US.

The UK is considering a new standard for "biodegradable plastic" which requires that they don't result in microplastic grains.

* So long as U.S. leaders continue to coddle the Saudis, it’s difficult not to ask who is more evil—the maniacal Saudi crown prince or the mendacious Western governments and business people who support him?*