Catching up with recent posts on John Robb’s Global Guerrillas blog, I find a small ray of sunshine for a bright summer’s day:
We’ve all heard the term “suicide bomber.” So what do you call a person, infected with a deadly biowarfare agent, that travels the public airways from city to city, purposely spreading the contagion until they eventually succumb to the disease themselves? My favorite: a suicide mule. Any additional suggestions?
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,...