The UK experiences the humiliation of being ruled by politicians that think their job is to attract foreign investment.

Iraqis suspect their army was told to surrender territory to ISIS and to the Kurds.

Since there is no evidence about what happened to three Israeli teenagers, Israel is using their disappearance as an excuse to imprison lots of members of Hamas.

Israel is also wreaking vengeance on prisoners who are members of Hamas, who are the most unlikely suspects in the whole territory of Israel and Palestine.

Meanwhile, Israel kidnaps hundreds of Palestinian teenagers every year.

Nominally these teenagers are "arrested"; but since most of them are beaten and not told charges against them, it is more of a kidnaping than a proper arrest of a suspect.

According to this article, the UK court decision allowing blanket surveillance of social media includes even private messages and data, if they are mediated by a server outside the UK.

I am not impressed by the supposed "earnestness" of the snoopers to protect Britons from "terrorism", because in the UK that term has been stretched to include whatever the government wants it to mean. Sometimes it means possessing a book the state considers suspect. Sometimes it means a journalist's lover making a connection in an airport.

If the Magna Carta originally protected mainly barons, that does not lessen its importance: it was the origin of our ideas of the rights of those accused of crimes.

The UK government's two-decade attack on those rights endangers everyone in Britain, and elsewhere too as the UK's rejection of the "rights of Englishmen" may influence other states.

A US drone attack in Pakistan seems to have targeted enemies of the Pakistani government, rather than terrorists that might attack the US.

That does not necessarily make it worse, because I think that's the wrong question to ask.

If the government of Pakistan is fighting rebels on the battlefield and asks the US for military help in the form of drone bombers, providing that help would not be an outrage. It would be no more horrible to do this with drones than with crewed aircraft or an armored division. (Other questions would remain, such as whether such help in a given situation is necessary, justified, and wise policy.)

What makes the drones particularly threatening is that they are used for assassination away from battlefields.