OK, that’s it. We are officially no longer a serious country:
The prime minister, who found out that Stephenson was resigning just over an hour into his overnight flight from Heathrow to Johannesburg, made a series of phone calls to the home secretary, Theresa May, and government officials from his Virgin plane.
These had to be made on the Virgin credit card phones available in all seats after the No 10 secure satellite phones failed.
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,...