The Thames Barrier, like a dam that can be opened and closed, protects London from surges of the North Sea. But, by 2070, sea level rise will leave it insufficiently tall, and impossible to maintain if they close it as often as it now must. It will have to be rebuilt.

Eventually protecting London will need a dam. And then it will become impossible.

The only way we can protect the thousands of threatened coastal cities is curb global heating, and then suck greenhouse gases out of the air.

A doctor says the NHS has been collapsing since 2012, and has kept getting worse.

Even when Labour was in power, all was not well, Waiting lists for treatment were long. Of course, Tories have made it far worse.

What Tony B'liar's Labour Party and the Tories have in common is plutocratism. They are unwilling to tax the rich enough to make the NHS function properly, so they always under-fund it.

d The UK now has essentially a monopoly on printing magazines.

This sort of thing happens when anti-monopoly laws are too weak or too weakly enforced. That tends to happen due to plutocratist pressure on governments.

Hong Kong has filed charges of criticizing the government on democracy activists living in exile.

This is not a surprise — it is part and parcel of the Chinese repression in Hong Kong, and it is why people would be wise not to go to Hong Kong or any part of China. Chine has no reason to limit these charges to people who really have rebuked China's repression from other countries (not that it is justified to punish people for that).

False and dishonest charges are standard there too.

Perhaps the US should criminalize people outside the US who participate in placing criminal charges against people in the US for criticizing other countries.

The Patriotic Millionaires UK warned the rich to expect "pitchforks and torches" if they don't stop pushing most people into poverty.