The Tories have made the NHS "junior doctors" back down from their planned strikes.

The term "junior doctor" sounds like a sort of apprentice, but that is not what it means. Those people are not trainees. Unfortunately, I have been unable to find a clear, simple description of just who the term does include. These news articles never give even a hint.

The result of this is that the NHS will increasingly struggle to find doctors. It will have to use people that are less qualified, and run them ragged so they make lots of mistakes.

The Tories surely know this; surely they are banking on it as an excuse to say that the NHS is a failure. Then they can replace it with a US-style system that provides real health care only to the wealthiest Britons.

A company that makes internet-controlled vibrators is being sued for collecting lots of personal information about how people use them.

The company's statement that it anonymizes the data may be true, but it doesn't really matter. If it sells the data to a data broker, the data broker can figure out who the user is.

The US is increasing its annual donation to Israel to 38 billion dollars. The donation consists of US military equipment plus support for extension of Israeli colonies in the West Bank.

European countries are sending Africa diesel fuel that produces extra high levels of toxic air pollution.

Indonesia has made a deal with the EU to indicate the source of all timber. This is an attempt to end illegal logging.