"Broken windows" backfires because it assumes that violence is characteristic of entire neighborhoods, so thugs repress everyone there. In fact, it is generally a tiny subset of the people in the neighborhood who commit violence.

Over 100 billion UKP worth of real estate in England and Wales is owned by anonymous corporations set up in tax havens.

It would be easy to make this problem disappear: just put a heavy tax on ownership of property through chains that cannot be tracked backed to real people. An even stronger measure would be to make that a crime, so that on demonstration that a given property is owned that way, the government could seize it.

Shamima Begum's lawyer needs her signature on the papers to appeal her punishment (imposed arbitrarily -- without trial) of exile from the UK, but the guards of the prison where she is being held will not let him in.

FAA employees say that the FAA skipped independent review of the Boeing 737 MAX computerized flight control system, trusting Boeing engineers instead, and that this disregarded a fatal flaw.

The pressure to "get it working now" by disregarding safety concerns reminds me of the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger. In the Challenger case, the pressure was for the sake of NASA's success. In this case, the pressure was for Boeing's success in competition. We can see it as a form of regulatory capture.

Dead Whale Washed Up in Philippines Had 40kg of Plastic Bags in its Stomach.

It is funny to think that one whale might be "curvier" than another, but I have a hunch the whale in question belonged to the species known as "Cuvier's beaked whale".