The appalling “honour killing” of Jassi Sidhu will see a day of reckoning in a Punjabi court but there are still those who fear Indian justice is not up to the job. Jassi’s Canadian-naturalized aunt and uncle are on trial there for hiring her killers because she disgraced them in her choice of a husband. Then, US Democrats are jittery at the prospect of Starbucks former chairman Howard Schultz running as an independent. Conventional political wisdom suggests that he would split the anti-Trump vote and ensure a Republican victory in 2020. Below that, a gripping 2017 interview with a flight attendant who figured out that one of her passengers was in trouble. The young woman was in the hands of a human trafficker. Fascinating. And finally, as they would no doubt tell you at Bagel House, bagels are supposed to be hard and chewy not soft and doughy. An interesting New York report on the truth of this food rule.