The EU is considering a plan to take fingerprints from all visitors. It has no specific grounds for this violation of privacy, just a vague handwaving that this is good for "security".

North Carolina Republicans said they would repeal the "bathroom bill" if Charlotte repealed its antidiscrimination law which said that people could use the bathrooms of their own gender identity.

Charlotte did so, upon which the state Republicans did not repeal the "bathroom bill".

Republicans are like Trump: cheaters! Never make a deal with Republicans — if you care whether they keep it.

I suggest that Charlotte pass its bill again, just to show those cheaters for what they are.

Irish homeless people, with support from the community, occupied a vacant building to make places they could sleep.

Naturally, the government took the side of the future and past rich owners rather than people who need a place to sleep. That's a sign of fundamental callousness: those politicians should spend some months sleeping on the street to understand what is at stake here.

The ACLU has got a court order to stop schools from arbitrarily demanding drug tests of students.

There is no justification for making people take tests of whether they have used recreational drugs in the past few days or weeks.

In certain special circumstances it is justified to require someone to take a test of whether per functioning is currently impaired by a drug; but that's a different kind of test. And doing schoolwork is not one of those special circumstances.

Nothing is too ugly for a trumpet to say.