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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.
Er… ahem.
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Nativity 2.0
Via @CasperTK.
Happy holidays from the IMF!
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How not to do media relations
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Joke of the week
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Desperate Housewives as public diplomacy
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Is Ed Miliband about to torch his environmental credentials? (updated x2)
BBC News: UK Climate Secretary Chris Huhne is set to fly back to London from the UN climate summit for the Thursday's Commons vote on student tuition fees....
How not to petrol bomb a pub
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How not to prevent accidents
A French court yesterday found Continental Airlines guilty of involuntary homicide for its part in the Concorde crash outside Paris in 2000. This is...
The converging world
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo[/youtube] A particularly fine Hans Rosling presentation, courtesy of Chris Blattman via Duncan Green.
The woman with the toughest job in the world
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Girl Effect: The Clock is Ticking
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The Girl Effect
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Yes, THAT bad
This analysis just posted by EuroIntelligence: The same pattern again. The EU agrees a pact, and the markets are panicking. This time it took them only a few...
THAT bad?
Never mind the bond yield graphs. If you really want to know how bad things have got for the Euro, have a look at where Roger Cohen is at in the NYT this...
Spanish flu
Spain's 10 year gilt curve today, via FT Alphaville.
US-Sino currency rap battle
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UK in extreme weather alert
Newsflash just in from the Daily Mash: BRITAIN ground to a standstill today after the heaviest November global warming bullshit in more than a decade. Across...
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