The UK is so desperate to build new nuclear power plants that it will pay in advance from the treasury.

This is a decision of the same Tory government that has pretty much put an end to land-based wind power and cut subsidies for solar power.

There is a report that the reason is a disguised subsidy for the UK's planned new nuclear missile submarines.

The bully has a new plan to take food stamps away from some poor Americans.

In the UK it is a crime to do something in public that people in the vicinity find "disgusting".

I too would find it disgusting, but so what?

US citizens: call on the Bureau of Land Management not to allow oil drilling in Chaco Canyon.

If you sign, please spread the word!

The government of Kazakhstan has injected itself as a man-in-the-middle for all HTTPS communication — in effect, spying on the browsing of everyone in the country.

We would expect such things from an overtly repressive state, but powerful "free" countries such as Australia, UK and US have done, or are trying to do, comparable things.