Christian fanatics in Ohio have found a new way to harass women who get abortions: to make them pay for the burial or cremation of the aborted fetus.

*The far-right German provocateur who faked being a Syrian refugee.* He has been charged with planning false-flag assassinations to give real refugees a bad name.

China is punishing lawyers who worked for some recently persecuted dissidents.

It's one of the ways that the Chinese state ensures that people it wishes to crush do not really have any legal rights, notwithstanding laws which say that they do.

A study of thousands of people who had Covid-19 for over a month found that 85% of them suffered from cognitive and memory problems six months later. Almost one quarter of them are now unable to work.

There is, as yet, no way of knowing whether they will ever recover.

The study did not use a rigorous sample, so it could be subject to various biases. But if it turns out that even 50% have a mental disability, it is still a tremendous risk. The flu might kill you (though the chances are much less than with Covid-19), but it won't mentally handicap you.

It is very important to help other people avoid Covid-19.

Advocating a carbon tax, combined with and giving the tax revenue to poor people so that it is revenue-neutral.