UK "grammar schools", which are supposed to help the most capable students advance even if they are poor, now admit mostly the well-off. It is part of a larger system so biased against the poor that a poor child must be exceptional in order to do well in life.

This unfairness should of course be corrected, but just making the selection for who gets a good life less unfair is only a step towards fixing the problem. The state should give the poor more support, so that everyone can have a good life.

Terrorism in Western Europe is a smaller danger today than it was 25 years ago.

The UK's National Health Service is cutting back on some treatments for cancer patients.

Since the Tories do not give it enough money, it will be compelled to let some people die who in the past it would have tried to save.

Taking shells from the beach harms the organisms that depend on shells. On a beach that many people visit, this can add up to a big effect.

Erdoğan has arbitrarily shut over a hundred radio and TV channels and printed publishers.