1999. The year the euro was established. Gates’ personal fortune surpassed $100bn. Napster was born. Jay-Z delighted fans with lyrics such as “More money,...
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Jay-Z, the new Alan Greenspan
Further to yesterday's news about UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon's big up to "my man Jay-Z", we now have news of currency markets being shaken by...
50 Cent: the Oxford English Dictionary version
[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/16885715[/vimeo] Courtesy of the excellent English 50 Cent, who helpfully provides a running translation of 50 Cent's tweets. More...
From the Southside to South Sudan: rap war!
The LSE has just published a very worrying report about the potential for violence in South Sudan, which holds a referendum on secession from Khartoum next...
Ban raps!
There is much excitement in UN-land at the news that Ban Ki-moon rapped at a recent U.S. UN association gala. Jay-Z described the man we will soon doubtless...
This one goes out to all my peeps on the 38th floor
My CIC colleague Vicki di Domenico brings to our attention the following important message from UN Secretary-General, His Excellency Ban Ki-Moon: "My man...
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Let’s make climate a culture war!
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...
Big Elephants and Small Islands: getting beyond the New Aid Orthodoxy
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...
Uncertainty and Humanitarian Action: What Donald Rumsfeld can teach us
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,...