British libel law still lends itself to use by rich people to suppress truthful journalism. The fact that Russian oligarchs who are personally under UK sanctions are doing so is especially embarrassing, but it is just as bad when British plutocrats do it.

The Tories are planning to make this even worse. They are working to change thousands of laws all at once -- laws imposed by the EU to protect human rights and regulations to protect people's health. This includes changes that would make libel suits an even easier way for rich people to bury the truth.

Drones were used to attack some sort of building or base in Iran. US officials said that Israel carried out the attack.

We don't know what that target is, or what it does, or what purpose it serves. However, this is likely to provoke war with Iran.

The term "gender-affirming surgery" has a serious flaw as a way of defining a category of surgical operations: it is subjective, not objective. Specifically, it is stated in terms of what someone (presumably the patient) thinks about the operation, not in terms of what the operation concretely does.

One patient might say, "I see this operation as affirming my gender, so I want to have it." Another patient might say, of the same operation, "This would go against gender, so I don't want it."

We need an objective way to define and refer to this class of operations, one independent of whether a given patient wants such an operation or not.

*Iranian couple filmed dancing in Tehran are jailed for 10 years.*

A former member of the US military-industrial complex calls for help in breaking it up.