A US-wide system of recording license plate recognition cameras, called "Vigilant", records a million car spottings every day. Every car that drives past a camera is recorded. These records could be kept for years.

Such a system should be outright illegal. License plate recognition cameras should be required to record only invalid license plates or cars sought by court order.

A secret US intelligence report expressing ignorance on the subject of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was suppressed in 2002, and apparently not shown to Colin Powell before he argued for invading Iraq to destroy those unverified (and in fact nonexistent) weapons.

The UK could effectively punish Putin's regime for the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, without breaking diplomatic relations.

I don't think the Tories care all that much; they are not so different from Putin, after all.

Peace activists in Israel face increasing repression.

I expect that in 10 years Israel will have become so repressive that all but right-wing extremists will flee.

Florida thugs burned Darren Rainey to death with very hot water. The state ruled this was an accident.