The movie Cars was profitable … as a commercial for toys.

Do you want to watch a movie that is effectively a commercial for toys? Do you want your children to see it? If you are worried they will watch porn, you've been distracted from the truly harmful media.

Punishing Putin's anti-gay repression with a boycott of Russian vodka.

Alas, the campaign has apparently missed the mark by targeting a brand of vodka that is not Russian any more.

It appears UK thugs spied on Janet Alder and her lawyer, while she campaigned for justice for her brother, who had died while held by the thugs.

Comparison with the thugs' handling of some other cases suggests they may have sought a way to smear Ms Adler so as to distract attention from their own dirty deeds.

A global heating denialist became editor at Reuters and cut the coverage of climate issues by 50%, says a reporter who quit in response.

This makes me wonder: why did Reuters hire him? I have a hunch this was not an accident.

A senior UK scientist who led a flawed study that appeared to exonerate neonicotinoid has gone to work for a company that produces one of them.

Officials that take actions to help business are often rewarded with a job later on.