A proposed new WiFi standard, 802.11bf, would allow WiFi devices to sense the position of people and how they are moving. Even from someone else's apartment. Perhaps even sensing how your fingers are moving over the keyboard and what keys they are pressing.

This seems to me like a disaster. I expect that Amazon and other companies will sell "connected" products containing such WiFi interfaces, and set them up to watch everyone in range and report.

The US case against Assange has now lost any way to pretend to be valid. The US must drop the case.

The case has been based on contempt for law and human rights all along.

The reason Britain builds too few houses is that investors who own houses and building sites prefer to hold on to them for later. The Tories don't want to change this. Instead they plan to deregulate — to eliminate planning rules.

This will create a big windfall for those investors, and a thousand local forms of pollution and trouble, but won't do much to reduce housing prices.

The UK's foolhardy decision to eliminate all Covid-19 distancing rules will make a many people prisoners in their homes for a long time.

Wearing a mask is a small sacrifice.

The UK will bully countries into cooperating with deportation of their nationals, by denying visas to other people from those countries.

It feels like hostage-taking to me.