Sweden took over the rotating EU presidency in July, and has already raised eyebrows by its decision to allow Twittering during meetings of senior eurocrats....
Alex Evans
Alex Evans is a Senior Fellow at the Center on International Cooperation (CIC) at New York University, and the author of The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren't Enough? (Penguin, 2017), a book about the power of deep stories to unlock transformational change. He lives in North Yorkshire and is currently working on political polarisation and learning dry stone walling. Full biog here.
Stewart Brand: 4 environmental heresies
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUxwiVFgghE[/youtube]
Gordon Brown channels Clay Shirky
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7rrJAC84FA[/youtube]
So is Tony Blair running for President of Europe?
The British media are having a field day this morning about the idea of Tony Blair as President of the European Union, following remarks yesterday by Glenys...
Er…
We will be doing this quadrennial review, which will be, we hope, a tool to provide us with both short-term and long-term blueprints for how to advance our...
Ban Ki-moon under fire – Al-Jazeera
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AlX7vVdo_o[/youtube]
Climate change and international institutions: presentation at Feasta
Last month I spoke about David and my report on institutions and climate change at a Feasta conference entitled The New Emergency: Managing Risk and Building...
D’oh
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzrAht2Ob1o[/youtube]
State Dept announces Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review
The State Department announced at the end of last week that it plans to undertake a 'Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review', the rationale being that,...
Robert Gibbs lays down the law at White House press briefing in May
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMyOidMq2hY[/youtube]
MEND leader Henry Okah released
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ds0ppu791w[/youtube]
A turning point for Nigeria’s insurgency?
The last two weeks have seen a storm of insurgent activity in Nigeria: Shell's onshore output has been halved to around 140,000 barrels a day, Chevron has...
David Goodhart: cap number of ministers from Parliament at 50
Prospect editor David Goodhart has an intriguing idea: Sweeping schemes for constitutional reform and global salvation abound. Not to be left out, Prospect...
The next reserve currency
Last week's G8 saw more rumblings of dissatisfaction from China about the US dollar's continuing role as the world's reserve currency: State Councillor Dai...
Why Mark Malloch Brown quit…
The Sunday Times has a piece today on Mark Malloch Brown's reasons for standing down as a Foreign Office minister - based on detailed quotes from a...
Blunt speaking on Africa
I think part of what's hampered advancement in Africa is that for many years we've made excuses about corruption or poor governance; that this was somehow the...
Peter Mandelson rendered speechess
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDCwRk2uJcw[/youtube]
Online real-time public reactions to PMQs (size of focus group: over a thousand)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab94V3VmlR8[/youtube]
G8: what the markets think
Never mind what the commentariat thinks: for the real take on how the G8's panning out, take a look at how the markets are reacting. John Authers: For...
Global Dashboard – an apology
Earlier this week, Global Dashboard contributor Richard Gowan spoke to the Guardian newspaper about the G8 summit, during which he made certain remarks about...
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