Ralph Nader's criticism of public radio in the US starts with their practice of being funded mostly by payment from businesses which buy lots of advertising. Then he calls for various changes. One of his criticisms is that NPR focuses on injustices of discrimination, but not enough on "indiscriminate injustice" which falls on the poor
People unidentified massacred Muslims in Delhi, so Modi's government (Hindu-nationalist) charged Umar Khalid, a leftist political activist who is Muslim, with being behind the massacre. This is a priori implausible, but they have kept him in jail for 5 years while the prosecution drags slowly on.
Ironically, the persecutor is threatening to attack Iran for persecuting Iranian protesters much like the way he persecutes American protesters that criticize him. Sometimes he will find it convenient to support, on some issue, the side that we defenders of human rights will agree with. It never represents real support for
Outsourcing state services to companies makes the services unaccountable. That is a disaster directly - but it has a secondary bad effect: ministers have little effective control to convert new policies into changes in actions. Outsourcing may appear cheaper for the state in a superficial sense, but it
* Daisies and dandelions are among hundreds of native plant species blooming in the UK* in winter. This won't directly hurt anyone, but it is a sign of the magnitude of changes we have caused in natural
