Global heating has been relegated to a low profile in Europe's politics.

The troll's deportation campaign has terrified immigrants, so that they no longer dare complain when employers cheat them.

Perhaps that is the substantive motive for the crackdown: to facilitate exploitation of workers.

Noel Conway, dying slowly from motor neurone disease, may have to commit suicide long before it is time, so that the UK will not imprison his family for helping him.

I wonder if there is a technical solution in his case. If he hooks up, while still able, a machine that will inject him with a lethal dose if three days go by without his pushing a certain button, he will be able to commit delayed suicide, but no one else will have triggered it.

Perhaps his friends would be punished for helping him construct it. There seems to be no limit to how far "authorities" will go in imposing the torture that they have legislated.

The troll decided to ignore Bahrain's repression and sell it fighter planes anyway.

Bahrain has no real need for fighter planes, but the sale will enrich some of the troll's cronies. That seems to be his principle arms policy goal.

The US claims to support human rights and democracy around the world. This has been partly false for a long time, but there is a kernel of truth in it. The troll is getting rid of that kernel of truth, and doing it so blatantly that associating the US with human rights or democracy will be seen as ludicrous.

That won't help global human rights, though. The rivals of the US are no friends of democracy or human rights.

Domestic Abuse Should Be Punished More Severely Than Non-Domestic, [UK] Judges Told.

The argument seems valid to me.