*Harder borders are a legacy of Covid we should reject.*

It is rational to restrict travel into your country if it has a low level of Covid-19. If it has a high level, such restrictions are pointless annoyance. Thus, I am amused by the US's prohibition on visits by Europeans. With millions of Americans you can catch Covid-19 from, what difference would a few Europeans make?

The repression in Belarus has hit massive numbers of people.

Pakistan has charged an eight-year-old boy with blasphemy. He may be executed for this.

It is evil to punish anyone for blasphemy. However, regardless of the crime, it never makes sense to punish children as criminals. They have not had the chance to develop the sort of responsibility which laws could operate through.

*Major climate changes inevitable and irreversible.*

*Only rapid and drastic reductions in greenhouse gases in this decade can prevent such climate breakdown, with every fraction of a degree of further heating likely to compound the accelerating effects.*

The IPCC presents seven possible scenarios for future development of the Earth's climate.

It also says that cutting methane emissions must be the immediate priority.

That means emissions from cows, and from the extraction and transmission of natural gas.

Less than half of Britons 16 and older are part of an official couple.

One of the few exceptions is Clitheroe. It seems that only clit heroes can stay married, nowadays.