Selling durable plastic bags in the UK has led to an increase in plastic for bags, because customers keep buying another bag rather than reusing each bag many times.

I carry three durable bags with me all the time, and I use each one repeatedly until it wears out.

A British TV channel invited all the party leaders to a debate about global heating. Bogus Johnson refused to participate, so the debate substituted a melting ice statue for him. Now the Tories threaten to punish the TV channel for this.

Plutocratists see Bloomberg as the opportunity to give plutocracy a good name again and avoid fixing its biggest problems.

*Bloomberg kicks off campaign with $31m ad buy — and he, Steyer and Trump make up two-thirds of all ad spends.*

What a shame it would be if a billionaire got the Democratic nomination.

*That the EU now frets about the extent of China’s investment in critical infrastructure but fails to acknowledge that its own policies partly created the vulnerability is evidence of a divided and profoundly inconsistent approach to China.*

US citizens: call on Facebook to stop funding the Federalist Society and the social acceptance of Brett Kavanaugh.

If you call, please spread the word!