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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.
Land grabs meet climate policy
Very interested to see the news today that City of London police have "arrested the director of a Merseyside-based business in connection with an alleged plan...
Organizing for Influence: UK Foreign Policy in an Age of Uncertainty
Chatham House report on how the UK’s new coalition government should upgrade and reform the way Britain conducts foreign policy
Organizing for Influence: our new Chatham House report
Our new Chatham House report on how the UK should organise its foreign polcy is now published – looking at national security, global systems and fragile states.
Doha trade round newsflash
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“Opening up Whitehall recruitment”, civil service style
So is the UK government opening central government job vacancies up to external applicants or not? That, after all, is what the new Coalition announced it...
Whitehall: the next 150 years
(Click here or on the map for a zoomable version.) H/t Public Strategist - who also report, rather fabulously, that the map above was apparently devised by...
Finance for development: is 1 the magic number?
Over at Philanthocapitalism, Mike Green and Matthew Bishop are arguing that The current 0.7% target [for aid spending] was the product of a different age...
The naffest agency in government
We're not exactly fans of SOCA - the Serious Organised Crime Agency - around here. But our generally downbeat opinion of them has hit a new low now that we've...
Britain’s new National Security Adviser
Volvo’s new state of the art collision avoidance system
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Well, fancy that
The difference between the first and second edition headlines of today's Times, courtesy of PoliticsHome. Take 1: Take 2: Sorry, Mr Murdoch, sir. Won't happen...
Charlie Brooker’s take on party leaders
Goes like this (read the whole thing): Picking a modern leader boils down to a question of which false persona you prefer. At least Brown's is almost...
After the vote: how would coalition negotiations work? (updated)
So we've looked at the composition of a potential coalition government, how a coalition might change policymaking in Whitehall, and what it might mean for...
After the vote: how would a coalition change policymaking in Whitehall?
In a post on Friday, I looked at the potential composition of a coalition government, and which Cabinet posts might be most attractive in negotiations between...
Metaphor of the week
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Coalition scenarios for the UK election
So with a week to go until polling day and the polls still suggesting the possibility of a hung Parliament as the result of the gripping election campaign...
The future of globalisation? We could tell you, but we’d have to kill you
The OECD has a sophisticated new maritime transport costs database that will help answer what happens to international trade under peak oil or tight emission controls – but its publications is being blocked by the US
Europe in unable-to-get-sh*t-together shock
To anyone who's been following Europe's inability to co-ordinate itself in climate talks or the G8 or G20, Alan Beattie's commentary on Europe's approach to...
The Navy shoots itself in the foot
How bemusing is all the muttering from the Navy about UK warships being deployed to help rescue stranded tourists from the continent? First we had Admiral...
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