Australian businessman Alexander Csergo was trapped in China and Chinese state agents demanded he give them information about Australia. He says he gave them useless answers he found on the internet. Now he is being tried for spying.

The US has also bullied innocent people to spy.

The Tory leader has declared all-out war on the climate. This is his latest lunatic way of trying to avoid losing big in the election that must be held next year.

What should we make of James Cameron's claim that there are large areas of the sea bottom that are safe to mine?

It might be possible to establish requirements for sea-bottom mining to be safe for biodiversity. These requirements might include the following

• The mining machines must be robots that quietly use arms to collect metal-bearing rocks.
• The machines must never disturb the bottom, aside from picking up rocks.
• The machines must deposit a replacement rock that wildlife can use in exchange for each metal-bearing rock that they take away. This calls for prior scientific research to verify that certain replacement rocks will enable the wildlife to survive.
• Mining can be authorized only in areas that have been surveyed to prove that they have no special ecosystems.

These or any requirements will not do any good unless they are carefully enforced.

If the mining companies object to these requirements, it will show that they really plan to destroy ecosystems.

Google will control the traffic lights of Athena, then take anticompetitive advantage by connecting this with its navigation service. No other company offering navigation advice will be able to do that.

A good fraction of the doctors in Idaho who treated complications of pregnancy have ceased to practice there, chased out by threats of fines or imprisonment.

I would suggest that all doctors who treat pregnant women in Idaho urge them at the first visit to make arrangements immediately for possible treatment later in a safer state, in case that comes to be necessary.