When mass media believe thugs accounts of fighting protesters without checking them, that puts democracy at risk.

Civilians say that the "gathering of armed extremists" bombed by a French plane was actually a wedding party.

I am inclined to believe the local people. They generally know a lot more about what is going on.

The US has done things like that too.

The Labour Party says it is now a pro-business party. Indeed, more than merely pro-business.

I do not advocate being "anti-business"; it would be very bad to abolish business. (We have seen how bad Communism is.) However, businesses have a tendency to mistreat human beings, so a large part of the job of the state is to make businesses stop doing that.

You can't make businesses respect human beings by thinking of yourself as "pro-business" or "in a partnership with business".

Two St Louis thugs beat up and injured an undercover thug at a protest, and were put on trial, but not convicted.

What surprises me is that the attackers were not charged with the attack itself — only with other related crimes.

*How many anti-vaxxers does it take to misinform the world? Just twelve.*