Two previous mass extinctions seem to have included global heating caused by burning lots of fossil fuel (all the world's forests).

It took millions of years for the ecosphere to recover.

Ireland's vote to allow gay marriage has been a big shock to the Catholic Church. It can't see how to deal with this.

Shell wants investors to "bet against the world".

Dubya's lies, the excuses for attacking Iraq (and eventually creating PISSI), were worse than ordinary lies. They played on the fears of Americans who were already traumatized, thus doing wrong to them.

The Tories' law, supposedly to protect workers with zero-hours contracts, is so weak that their employers' will hardly notice it.