New Mexico is hastily privatizing rivers that people were free to use their boats on.

CIA torturers are using the "just following orders" defense that Nazi war criminals used.

DeVos is trying to destroy the Department of Education's workers' union by imposing a damaging "agreement" that the union did not agree to.

Corbyn is resisting the pressure for a pseudo-war with Russia.

Labour is of course no supporter of the Putin regime, its conservative authoritarianism, abuse of human rights or political and economic corruption.

However, that does not mean we should resign ourselves to a 'new cold war' of escalating arms spending, proxy conflicts across the globe and a McCarthyite intolerance of dissent.

It seems not to be so hard to make the nerve gas that was used to poison the Skripals.

Meanwhile, Corbyn knows that Russia is a small threat to people living in the UK, as threats go. By contrast, the Tories have oppressed millions of Britons with poverty, which surely kills thousands every year. I think Corbyn is wise to focus on the bigger danger.

If Iran builds nuclear weapons, Salafi Arabia will too.

Salafi Arabia is a great place for solar power. It has no rational reason to take on the dangers of nuclear power, other than as a stepping stone to nuclear weapons. Therefore, other countries should not sell it nuclear power.

It would be a good thing if Salafi Arabia an Iran signed a treaty foreswearing nuclear weapons.