A Palestinian died in a fire because Israeli soldiers held up the fire truck for half an hour.

Wealthy countries including the US continued to insist on hampering global production of Covid-19 vaccines by means of patents.

Please do not call patents "intellectual property". That term injects fundamental confusion and presupposes values that put profit over life.

The TRIPES agreement (Trade-Restricting Impediments to Production, Education and Science) ought to be cancelled entirely, along with the rest of the WTO.

A Texas thug has been charged with murder for shooting and killing an unarmed man with no justification. The thug department, of course, says thugs should be allowed to get away with that.

Some US colleges are cancelling spring break so that their students don't go to Florida to catch and spread Covid-19 and then bring it home.

That is a wise precaution. It would be wise for the US to forbid interstate travel in and out of states governed by spreaders.

UK ministers used to have to resign if they lied. Bogus Johnson has made lying to Parliament standard practice.