People are becoming aware that there is a battle against digital tech companies for control of each person's attention,

What people do not yet recognize is that this as a consequence of the unjust power that companies (even small companies) derive from nonfree software and from online disservices. So their proposed solutions are not deep enough.

UK and Iran are now in a tanker-seizure standoff.

It appears that Bolton told the UK, "Let's you and them fight."

Labour will organize the unprivatization of local government activities.

Should all crewed space missions be run by private business?

In some cases, there is no harm in that. But if we let them build settlements in space or on the Moon, those will be "company towns" in which no one can do anything except under the control of the company. Working there will be like working in an Amazon warehouse.

Thanks to contraceptive pills, women do not have to menstruate at all.

This reminds me of a story by James Tiptree (Alice Sheldon) about a woman whose daughter decided to join a movement for natural menstruation. She couldn't convince her daughter to abandon this foolish idea, but the experience of menstruating did the job pretty fast. (What is the story's name?)