The TTIP would make it harder to regulate the technology used to handle farm animals. That could make it harder to insist on humane treatment of farm animals and harder to protect antibiotics that may save our lives. It could also lead to monopolies, bad for farmers.

In the US, the TPP might do the same bad things. Among many many others. They are both business-supremacy treaties, so their goal is bad and they would achieve that bad goal.

Thousands of Americans have been jailed by unreliable drug tests used by thugs who search them. When the test gives a false positive, which happens often, the defendant is frequently pressured into a false confession as a plea bargain. Even if it were right to imprison people for possession of drugs, which is pointless cruelty, it would still be wrong to imprison people for the presence of a minuscule quantity too small to actually use.

The obtuse absurdity of the Tories' cruel cuts: to give more money to the rich, they have cut care for the disabled. A blind, quadriplegic man has to pass hours in which he can't even go to the toilet, or get something to drink.

The council, denying him this needed support, suggested he keep a pot of tea nearby, although he would be unable to see it or lift it.

The evident purpose of transferring these funds to local council was so that they would be spent on something else instead. That enables larger cuts in other areas, since parts of those cuts will be transferred to disabled people. Meanwhile, the government can claim, deceptively, that it hasn't cut the funds for the disabled.

The Tories appointed bombastic bullshitter Boris Johnson as foreign minister. The French foreign minister said, correctly, that he is a liar.

I don't have much respect for the French "socialist" government, which is selling out French workers to kowtow to banksters. However, I am happy to see this comment.

A US court ruled that thugs need a search warrant to use a stingray to track someone's portable phone.

I expect this will be decided later by an appeals court or the Supreme Court. If the decision is ultimately upheld, it will only give us back a little of our privacy, and I will still decline to carry around a portable phone.