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Canada's ambassador to China regrets saying what he said, about Meng Wanzhou's arguments for avoiding extradition, but didn't say that it was not accurate.

The US has started making asylum-seekers from Central America to Mexico to wait, perhaps for months or years, while their cases are considered.

This is not inherently unjust, but it could become so if (for instance) they have to live in penury there, or if the gangs that threatened to kill them at home come after them there.

Many Australians now mark the date of the landing of the first British fleet (of convict transportees) as "Invasion Day", looking at it from the point of view of the Australians of that time.

Socialism for the rich now includes oil companies in the UK, which are shirking the responsibility to clean up and shut down oil drilling platforms in the North Sea.

Big companies have a history of using bankruptcy to evade responsibilities, even pension obligations. Rather than trust a company to come up with money later to carry out its responsibilities, we should make it put the money in escrow in advance when it incurs the obligation, on a schedule that collects the money while the project is profitable.