A foolish choice of vending machines in France means that you can't pay cash for fresh oysters.

I dislike oysters, but I know that if we don't fight these surveillance sales systems when they first appear, the fight will get harder.

South Korea's National Intelligence Service has admitted to meddling in that country's elections in 2012 to help conservatives win.

Australia's repeal of the carbon tax has been followed by a substantial increase in greenhouse emissions.

The rich owners of expensive empty apartments in London are unable to present any sensible argument against letting the state requisition them as housing for the homeless.

Requisitioning empty apartments to lease to people without homes is justifiable as an emergency measure. However, in the long term there should be no need for this, because there is a more gentle and less controversial way to solve this problem: to adjust the tax on real estate so that buying apartments and keeping them empty ceases to be profitable.

Refugees sent to Manus Island by Australia lay down on the ground to block thugs who aim to force them out of the one place in Papua New Guinea that they are safe.