*France investigates fashion brands over forced Uyghur labour claims.*

One aspect of the Tories' proposed broad repression law would be to make nomadic life almost impossible, as they would be effectively forbidden to stop almost anywhere.

People who live in vehicles because they can no longer afford anywhere else would also be targeted.

Suggested tactics for defending monuments to the Confederacy include avoiding the topics of race and slavery.

The whitewashing of the Confederacy has always been based on pretending that the Civil War was not about whether to end slavery.

* Alcohol addiction has long been romanticised in films, TV shows, books and adverts. Let’s stop glossing over the destructive drudgery and sheer sorrow of the disease.*

Prosecutors in Orange County, California, bully everyone accused of the smallest offenses into into giving a DNA sample, by threatening false felony charges.

It is easy to manipulate the public with fear into tossing aside civil liberties for "stronger law enforcement" which will supposedly make everyone "safe". The danger is that it promotes repression too.