Lots of commentary on the media about how London rioters are using social media to coordinate their movements. But the converse holds, too: here’s a snap of people who turned up in Clapham to clean up after the riot, coordinated over Twitter. Meanwhile, here in Walthamstow – where we had riots on Sunday night – local people have turned the community centre into a canteen to provide food and tea for riot police through the night.
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,...