A misguided attempt to stop trafficking of workers in just one field attacks the freedom of the internet on the side.

Trafficking and enslavement of workers is a broad problem, found in diverse areas of work including domestic service, sex work, factory work and construction. We need to develop measures to protect workers from this.

One of the factors that promotes enslavement in any area is poverty.

Prohibition of abortion kills women today in Brazil.

But even if it didn't kill them, it would force them to have babies, and that in itself is a great injustice.

Boko Haram is attacking the city of Maiduguri, with 2 million inhabitants, from all sides.

A clever but meaningless "solution" to massive surveillance: the "databox" would offer a way to give personal data to companies via one special company, rather than directly. It would only mean that some of your personal data follows a different pathway to companies and the state.

The databox company would hand over all your data to Big Brother on demand, as every company does (in the US, the PAT RIOT act requires this).

The databox company would hand your data to other companies, too, whenever you do business with a company that says you must agree to do so.

Meanwhile, most of your personal data is generated by transactions that you're involved in: for instance, if you order a book, listen to streaming music, or pay with a credit card. You never have this data, and neither would the databox company.

In other words, the databox is a pseudo-solution that can only distract from the measures that would really end massive surveillance.

Social mobility in the UK has remained small for 160 years.

The only way to help the non-rich is by taxing the rich.