At the start of the month, Richard pointed out the interesting fact that Nicolas Sarkozy has a very large television. The picture he supplied proved that this was indeed the case; but it is as nothing compared to John McCain’s barbecue, which looks like something out of Mission Control:
Richard ripostes: or does he? Mr. McCain is, of course, Senator for Arizona and an inspection of Arizona’s #1 BBQ Club suggests that his electorate have much larger contraptions. Like this one:
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,...