Madison Square Garden is using facial recognition on everyone who enters, to keep out the lawyers representing plaintiffs that are suing it.

Laws to restrict use of facial recognition on the public should make sure to prevent this.

The mining company Adani threatened reporters who visited its coal mine site with legal action for meeting with indigenous protesters protesting on the site, and demanded that they not publish any photos they took there.

Companies that try to bully reporters should be shut down by the state.

This particular company is participating in mass murder. Pollution from coal mines already kills thousands. Global heating disaster will kill at least hundreds of millions, perhaps billions.

My main criticism of the Australian government is that it allows new coal mines to be opened. How much coal mine profit is your life worth?

China has demanded Poland censor an art exhibition which condemns actions by China and Chairman Xi.

China carries out many parallel efforts to silence criticism and critics in other countries. It uses its economic power to pressure governments to help. We cannot take for granted that Poland will stand up to this pressure.

Accused "hijackers" on a cargo ship headed for Italy were simply refugees trying to get to Europe, say the prosecutors who were supposed to put them on trial as "pirates".

The effect of government-imposed poverty in the UK can be measured by the average height of five-year-old children.