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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.
HM Treasury: time for a purge
Bravo to Philip Stephens for telling it like it is on HM Treasury in yesterday's FT: The inflationary bust of the early 1990s shredded the Treasury’s...
Future activism
Prepare for some downbeat news: People in the UK understand and relate to global poverty no differently now than they did in the 1980s. This is the case...
The Daily Mail: an all-time best?
The Daily Mail is so cheerfully and consistently hypocritical that most of the time it just feels like too much bother to pick them up on it. But every now...
Development’s next decade
Report by Alex Evans for ActionAid’s International Strategy 2012-2016, identifying eight critical uncertainties for development over the next decade, and ten recommendations for ActionAid as a global campaigning organisation.
Position vacant
As Mother Jones says, "You should, like, strongly consider applying to work for this guy:" We want to add some talent to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune...
La coopération militaire avec la France: your cut-out-and-keep guide
“As we got closer and closer to closing the deal at Nato, France suddenly blocked everything, which confused us at first … But then it became clear – Sarkozy...
Is there a Plan?
Foreign Policy scooped the US broadsheet press by a day over the weekend with its breakdown of what persuaded President Obama to undertake his volte face on...
Physician, heal thyself
Not much austerity in evidence at the IMF: The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have pushed ahead with pay raises above the rate of inflation...
Battle-proof wind farms
So with simultaneous crises underway on both nuclear (meltdown risk at six reactors) and oil (spiking at $115), you may be wondering what other options are...
What the oil spike means for development
ODI have some new research out this week on this, looking at the potential impacts of a one third increase in oil prices over the next two years (which they...
Chew on that, locavores
This Report rejects food self-sufficiency as a viable option for nations to contribute to global food security, but stresses the importance of crafting food...
What Fukushima means for energy policy
The earthquake and tsunami in Japan have important implications for energy policy - partly, of course for nuclear, but also for oil, gas and coal too. Three...
Maybe if we just make stuff up about climate change instead?
From the Boston Globe: In a series of studies in 2005 and 2006, researchers at the University of Michigan found that when misinformed people, particularly...
Just very quickly – how on earth d’you sleep at night?
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Monogrammed initials on your shirts are so entry level
So says Hosni Mubarak (h/t Business Insider).
Food, Libya’s rebels and humanitarian space
Chris Albon has an excellent post over at The Atlantic, which has this to say: Warfare has changed much since Napoleon's Grande Armée marched across Europe,...
Should corporations have First Amendment rights?
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How to make a successful transition from autocracy to democracy
International Crisis Group's deputy president Nick Grono made an excellent speech recently on 'challenges for conflict prevention and resolution over the next...
OK, this is slightly off topic. But hey.
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