Unusual ecosystems are found around Rockall, and a ban on fishing is needed to preserve them.

To make this ban reliable and easy to enforce, it should be simple: no fishing within X km of Rockall.

Why you should care about privacy.

There is one additional reason. You should care that people who talk to journalists have privacy, because otherwise nobody will dare tell us how the state is lying to us.

Implications of the US decision to arm Syrian rebels.

I think this is a mistake, and never mind the possible Russian response, because there is no reliable way to support the secular rebels and avoid helping the Saudi-supported jihadi fanatics.

It looks like this is developing into a war between Sunnis and Shi'ites, and it would be bad for the US to take a side in that war. Both sides produce theocracies (Saudi Arabia and Iran) that are among the most evil regimes on Earth.

If Australia extracts its coal, it will doom itself and the rest of us.

In an exhibition of art in tribute to Mike Brown, an artist convicted of obscenity, a collage was seized and the artist may be charged with "child pornography".

From the description of the collage, it must be unmistakeably clear that no real children had sex in the making of it.

This is part of a long pattern of censoring art in Australia.