New French pun: Manger les avocats ou pas ?

Bolivia's New Puppet Regime Wastes No Time Aligning With US Foreign Policy.

Australia's official war historians, including the one appointed to publish an honest official history of Australia's participation in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, call on the government to permit the publication of that work.

"We have spent most of this year writing about the death of people on our streets [in the UK]. This crisis has simple, practical solutions, and everyone cares about it. Why isn’t it an election priority?"

In the long term, the main reason people die while homeless is that they can't afford a place to live. The Labour Party has made that an election priority. Likewise providing everyone with enough food, and increasing wages and working conditions.

Tory cruelty (including trickle-down policies) makes a small fraction of people homeless, but it causes suffering and even death to a much larger part of the people. I think Labour is wise to prioritize the broader injustice rather than its worst-case symptom, especially since success in these goals will as a natural result save most people from ever being homeless.

The UK government has privatized handling of some visa applications, which gives the company a chance to gouge people for the extra price of "premium" service, simply by making the regular service faulty or unbearable.

No modern company would bid to run a privatized service and neglect such opportunities. If its executives failed to figure them into the business plan, they would be dismissed for neglecting the interests of the shareholders.

Which is one of the reasons why no government service should ever be privatized.

The biometric residency permits raise other issues of oppression and tracking, but that is independent of privatization.