The FT has this as lead story this morning: The European Union would gain far-reaching powers to rewrite national budgets for eurozone countries that breach...
Alex Evans
Alex Evans is founder of Larger Us, which explores how we can use psychology to reduce political tribalism and polarisation, a senior fellow at New York University, and author of The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren’t Enough? (Penguin, 2017).
He is a former Campaign Director of the 50 million member global citizen’s movement Avaaz, special adviser to two UK Cabinet Ministers, climate expert in the UN Secretary-General’s office, and was Research Director for the Business Commission on Sustainable Development.
Alex lives with his wife and two children in Yorkshire.
DIY UAVs
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Sustainable Development Goals: what just happened?
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Great moments in development communication, part 94
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Managing common pool resources – Elinor Ostrom
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The triumph of the commons – RIP Elinor Ostrom
Apart from being the first (and only) woman to win the Nobel Prize for economics, Elinor Ostrom will be remembered as a towering intellect for another reason...
Majority of Chinese people rank environment higher than economy – Gallup
From Gallup's website: Fifty-seven percent of Chinese adults surveyed in 2011 -- before the country's economic slowdown grabbed headlines -- prioritized...
Tory spin doctor caught on camera telling off BBC journalist
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The perils of Googles Images…
Pity whichever hapless BBC researcher was in a hurry to find a background image for a report on the UN Security Council today and instead managed to post...
Goldman Sachs’s three scenarios for Greece
From a GS research note published this morning: Scenario #1: Muddling through In the most likely scenario, the new Greek government emerging from the June 17...
Christmas comes early in the form of Tim Worstall
Much delight to be had in the Daily Telegraph, where Tim Worstall is to be found firing a major broadside in DFID's direction. Here's a sample: Aid should...
Latest data on emissions
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How best to argue for equality: fairness, social outcomes or economic outcomes?
It’s interesting that when progressives argue in favour of redistribution or other policies for greater equality, we tend to base our arguments either on...
Occupational hazards
Quote 1: We do not make demands from governments ... or parliament members, which some of us see as illegitimate, unaccountable or corrupt. Quote 2: We demand...
Ouch
Armed with their billions, these NGOs have waded into the world, turning potential revolutionaries into salaried activists, funding artists, intellectuals and...
Sustainability: a game you can lose, but can’t win
It is useful to think of sustainability in the metaphor of an athletic game: It is possible to “lose”–that is, to become unsustainable, as happened to the...
Is the EU about to stuff it up on international climate change (again)?
So near, and yet so far - as so often in EU climate policy. Back in December of last year, at the Durban climate summit, it looked as though the EU was...
The Sharing Experiment
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Hurrah for politics
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Happy birthday to GD
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