1. Locus does indeed need to do work on getting better reviewers, and - where possible and practical - getting the reviewers they have to become better people. The Coldiron case alone is clear on its face.

3. Laurie Penny brings the point home again. Rightly so. As does Rep. Ocasio-Cortez. The latter is on my short list of Americans that I - as a openly meddling Canadian - would like to see become US president over the course of these next few decades.

4. No arguments. Carpenter's been corroborated.

6. Nope it won't go well with several of the hardcore Brexiteers at all.