Florida plans to demand that students give lots of personal details and biometrics. This is supposedly to keep them safe. Like the thugs in the schools, it will endanger them instead. The direct harm will fall mainly on people from minority groups, but don't assume your child will be safe!

"Flight-shaming" could slow growth of airline industry, says IATA.

That is the aim of it.

Increasingly people are taking the high-speed train from London to continental Europe rather than flying.

If you never have children, you will avoid so much future greenhouse gas emissions that a lifetime's worth of flights will hardly count.

It turns out that Admiral Nelson, Britain's greatest naval hero, was also a defender of slavery. Does that mean his statues should be taken down?

It is impossible to compare the evil Nelson did by defending slavery with the good he did by helping to defeat Napoleon to see which is more important. That is imponderable. But we can be sure that Nelson, who died in 1805, had no say over how Britain treated es-slave black sailors after the war ended in 1814.

Statues of Confederate generals were put up to glorify the past system of slavery, aiming to strengthen the system of segregation. That is what those statues stand for. I think they should be taken down.

By contrast, statues of Nelson were put up as symbols of naval victory, and that is what they stand for. They don't stand for any position on race relations. I don't think there is a need to take them down, even though British naval power is a thing of the past.

The bully ordered the Kurds to surrender to Turkey a 20-mile strip along the border within five days or face mass murder. He called this a "cease fire deal".

Senator Warren will reintroduce the Schedules that Work Act which will forbid employers from jerking part-time workers around on short notice.