Racist beatings were so common in the UK, 40 years ago, that they would hardly attract notice. The fact that they now shock people shows that they have become a lot less frequent. That is progress.

Many states spend far more on prisons than they do on schools. Spending more on schools might save a lot more money on prisons.

"I quit Google over its censored Chinese search engine."

The company's responses to his criticism were vague, and directed at arguing that censorship and snooping aren't really so bad.

The EU is so desperate to give the copyright industry more power that it pretends that article 13 does not impose filters for automated censorship.

A journalist's report from Libya, plus one interview with a former Qadhafi-era dissident.