*Australian professor and son detained in Qatar for five months without charge.*

It's not impossible a priori that they committed a crime, but if Qatar can't say what it was, it must release them.

A new variant of Covid-19 seems to spread faster. That means stronger measures will be required to stop it from spreading.

The existence of that mutant variant is the result of letting Covid-19 spread to so many people. If we had taken adequate measures to stop the spread quickly at the outset, the mutation would not have occurred.

The UK government is planning new permanent restrictions on protests. They have not yet what those restrictions will be, but democracy in the UK is undermined already and this will make things worse. The Tories are already trying out voter-ID to suppress the votes of poor people who are unlikely to vote Tory, and working on giving more power to thugs.

The US has removed Sudan from the sponsors-of-terror list.

Everyone: call on Pasco County to erase the database that is supposed to predict which students will be criminals.

Making predictions about young people tends to bring about the predicted outcome.