Tunisia's once-elected dictator is sentencing opposition politicians to prison. Some of them are safely living in exile, but that doesn't help Tunisia become free.

An appeal has upheld the UK's practice of canceling people's citizenship for committing crimes.

Going to help PISSI was certainly a crime, but a citizen of country C should have the right to go home and serve a sentence there, rather than being exiled.

The UK has a proposal to ban product labels for using variants of dairy product names to label non-dairy substitutes.

I don't think anyone is likely to think that "I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter" with butter. However, I did once buy a product with "cheeze" when I wanted a version that had real cheese. If I had checked carefully, I would have understood the difference, but I didn't realize it might be a mistake.

I would suggest allowing the names that say "not FOO" when the "not" is large and visible. But a substitute name that differs only a little from the dairy product name does cause a risk of confusion and should not be allowed.

*Wisconsin's extreme gerrymandering era ends as new maps come into force.*

A study of human placentas found microplastics in each one.

I have seen a series of results about the presence of microplastics in various places and various kinds of organisms. All of these address one side of the crucial question: are we exposed to microplastics?

Whether this is a real problem depends on the other side: how dangerous are they? We speculate that they may make various medical problems more likely, but we don't have any firm knowledge about this.