Planet roasters in Australia are spreading distorted economic figures to derail the country's conversion to renewable power. They will stop to nothing to continue funding for fossil fuels and nucler generation, at the expense of the country and the world.

Environmental degradation, caused by global heating and other harm to wild ecosystsms, is bringing humans in contact with more animal diseases.

Some of them can spread to large numbers of humans.

The Republican-dominated states of Florida, Georgia and South Carolina have been gravely damaged by a hurricane. Much of the damage is caused by the Republican opposition to curbing global heating.

Home insurance has already been mostly discontinued in Florida.

As a result, many if thise whose houses were ruined will loss all.

Now I expect similar developments in more states.

*North Carolina judge [who was] investigated for saying racial bias exists [has] filed lawsuit.*

Right-wing racists will go to any lengths to censor awareness of racism and other right-wing oppression.

Bad mistake: *Ex-Tory MP apologises for ancestors' links to slavery.*

You should never apologize for things others have done for which you are not responsible.

Aside from that, what she did was proper. She acknowledged the ancestors' actions, which had been unknown to her until a historian dug them up in old records, and she denounced them. That is the right thing for anyone to do who has as little responsibility for those actions as she has.

It is horrible that people have made death threats against her for things someone else did long ago. Advocating Tory policies entails moral responsibility for them (though not for slavery hundreds of years ago), but it doesn't justify threats of violence.