Yeah, yeah, we’re a week in. But Obama’s surgical rebuttal today of Hillary’s ‘false hopes’ line is going to take some beating:
“I have been teased and even derided for using the word ‘hope’. But we are America. We don’t need leaders telling us what we cannot do. We need leaders who can inspire us to achieve things. Did you hear JFK saying: ‘You know this moon thing, it looks too far’?”
If the politics of climate change end up polarised, is that so bad? No – it’s disastrous. Or so I’ve long thought. Look at the US – where climate is even more polarised than abortion. Result: decades of flip flopping. Ambition under Clinton; reversal...
Official development assistance (ODA) – or aid – is a small but conspicuous pillar of the international order, and its frailties are being exposed by COVID as surely as those of the other foundations of this order. The assumptions underpinning aid and its management...
Since its onset, one striking feature of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has been the narrative power of its novelty. This global narrative depicts COVID-19 pushing humanity towards a ‘historical divide’ of BC and AC (before and after COVID-19), where unknown,...