Italy's right-wing government has been silencing critics by suing them for defamation.

Rebecca Solnit says that some US mainstream media are heavily pushing the idea that Biden is a bad president, building up pressure for him to resign.

They are the point that he has done a good job compared with the other presidents of recent decades. This is all the more remarkable given that he was held back by the lack of effective Democratic support in Congress.

The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism describes the massive graft of the leaders of the US right-wing.

Currently they mostly do this to their supporters, but Trump hopes to make all of us victims.

The first thing Starmer Labour will do is appoint a former Tory minister to weaken the planning system requirements for local approval of construction projects.

The change might be good or bad -- the article gives few details. Tories changed these rules to make it particularly easy to block approval of wind power generators, and reversing that would surely be a good thing.

Under the Tory government, regulations for construction were circumvented and disobeyed, resulting in building many buildings with flammable materials. One of them had a big fire in which many residents died.

Enforcement of safety regulations is not precisely the same issue as getting approval for a project, but they are related and they are part of the same system. A government that is gung ho for "easing regulations" is likely be insufficiently careful about which ones.

*Lindsey Graham [a follower of the corrupter] calls for physical and cognitive tests for Biden and [the corrupter].*

Naturally, his choice of what to test is biased so as to flunk Biden. To test the candidates for the full range of grave human flaws calls for testing also for conscience and empathy.