Global heating could make people more inclined to violence.

An ACLU staffer suggests a way to respond if thugs ask for your DNA to see if you are a suspect.

Some US colleges now nearly force students to rent textbooks from Amazon.

If you are a student at such a college, please refuse to buy from Amazon. Everyone should refuse to buy from Amazon.

Israel has created a secret agency to try to fight the Palestinian boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign, which it calls "terrorism". It uses public propaganda, a network of foreign supporters, and secret operations, and aims to set up laws blocking participation in that campaign.

The propaganda includes widely spread disinformation. For instance, the boycott does not apply to Israelis (human beings) at all, only to Israeli institutions and corporations under certain conditions.

I do not support that campaign overall, but I support the efforts to block Israel from crushing it with prohibitions. It is wrong to label this nonviolent campaign as "terrorism" or to equate it with antisemitism (a form of bigotry which which I condemn).

Israel has already adopted a law that punishes individuals and organizations that advocate the limited boycott of West Bank colonies and factories therein. Gush Shalom was forced to drop that boycott, lest it be destroyed through this law. I, as a supporter in spirit of Gush Shalom, continue to advocate this boycott, since I am safe outside Israel.

The Tories say the announced, pending cuts in welfare payments will be the last ones.

They have not promised to stop the policies that reduce public housing and drive up rents, or to stop sabotaging the NHS to convert it into a US-style system that will let non-wealthy Britons die like non-wealthy Americans.