A British Muslim extremist, perhaps a convert (judging from his name), has been banned from preaching on pain of arrest.

Incitement to murder is legitimately punished. This man's "vigilante patrols" may have included attacking passers-by. (Some such Islamist vigilantism in Britain has done that.) If he advocates Shari'a law, then he has no respect for others' human rights. He is evidently an example of the tendency for religions to inspire hatred, which is common today in Islam, Christianity, Judaism and Hinduism.

But that doesn't justify banning him from stating his views, which is not a crime. That tramples his human rights.

The UK fails to distinguish between "discrimination and persecution" and stating a political position.

The Syrian peace talks are hopelessly deadlocked.

No one has any idea of a feasible form of intervention that would make things better.

As business increasingly looks for land grabs, efforts to confirm indigenous people's land rights are stalling.

A global heating denialist tactic is to misrepresent the consensus of nearly all climate scientists and pretend it is something very weak.

Uganda's law censoring "promotion of homosexuality" and imposing prison for any touching in public has been approved.

The influence of genes on homosexuality is not a secure base for arguing for equal rights for homosexuals.

I think the issue is simple. People who don't want to have sex with you have a right not to have sex with you, and aside from that it's none of their business who you have sex with.