Biodiversity defenders have sounded the alarm about the United Kingdom government’s Monday decision to provide another so-called “emergency” exception for the use of an outlawed neonicotinoid pesticide lethal to bees.
Source: ‘Shameful’: UK Approves ‘Emergency’ Use of Banned Bee-Killing Pesticide
UK Ministry of Defence says situation so bad reservists are having to buy their own body armour
The looting of artistic and religious objects from Africa and Asia by British invaders in the 19th century causes much rancorous debate about whether the artefacts should be returned to the countries they were originally stolen from. But discussion is much more muted about equally acquisitive expeditions launched by Britain today that may ultimately cause more suffering than those imperialist ventures long ago.
Source: Luring Doctors from Poorer Countries is the UK’s Quiet Scandal – CounterPunch.org
One critic warns that the Tory former Foreign Secretary “campaigned as a right-wing ideologue and will govern as such—which is a disaster for all of us.”
Source: ‘Buckle Up, It’s Going to Be a Rough Ride’: Far-Right Liz Truss Named New UK Prime Minister
The UK recorded blistering hot temperatures as the US and Europe also experienced sweltering heat waves.
Boris Johnson, the United Kingdom’s scandal-saddled premier, is finally stepping down as leader of the Conservative Party — which, as British politics
Source: On “Democracy” Metrics, the US Lags Britain – CounterPunch.org
The UK is going through an energy crisis, with rising prices forcing people to use candles for lighting and unable to turn on their electric cookers when preparing meals. There are calls for a windfall tax on soaring energy company profits, which the Tory government has refused to implement. Predictably, the CEO of National Grid warned that such a tax would “harm reinvestment”.
Source: The Great British Privatization Heist, Some Notes – CounterPunch.org
1848+: The End(s) of History 