The Tories limited welfare benefits to supporting two children per family. This was supposed to pressure parents to get jobs. All it did was throw children into poverty.

Comparing two proposed laws to limit stock buybacks by corporations.

The Stock Buyback Accountability Act of 2023 would impose a tax on buybacks, as well as certain situations when this tax would not apply (i.e. if the buyback were part of an employer-sponsored retirement plan or employee stock options plan).

The Reward Work Act would prevent issuers from buying their own securities on a national exchange:

I think the two are complementary.

Cory Doctorow that I recommended.

The Putin forces have more or less captured the city of Bakhmut. They lost tens of thousands of soldiers doing so.

Meanwhile, Ukraine has 3/4 surrounded the city by capturing high ground around it. My partial knowledge of military history suggests that the safe thing for the Putin forces to do would be to pull out of the exposed salient which the city has become. I don't think they will, though. I think Putin's ego is bigger than his tactical understanding.

Maybe Ukraine should rename the city to Putingrad to make sure they don't pull out of it.

*A decade after the Tories demonized disabled people on benefits, it's happening again.*

If you are a non-rich working Briton, and your tax burden for supporting worthy causes such as helping the disabled is high, don't blame them! Blame the rich bastards who avoid contributing their proper share -- by supporting Tories.