Columbia, South Carolina, will give homeless people a choice between real jail and a "shelter" that is much like a jail.

US citizens: tell the UK we condemn the detention of David Miranda.

The UK treats single parents as unemployed people, and makes them jump through many arbitrary hoops to get welfare payments. If they fail to get all the hoops — perhaps because they are taking care of their kids — then the state cuts off their money and says it's their fault.

This is the face of plutocracy. The people who set up this scheme deserve no mercy, and those who carry it out deserve none either unless they quit.

Conjecture: Alexei Navalny has been groomed by Putin to divide opposition and lead it nowhere.

When oil companies promote biofuel, it's the kind of biofuel made by diverting land, water and chemical fertilizer that could have grown food. So it is a kind of greenwashing.