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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.
How William Hague got David Miliband in stitches
Never mind the fact that, as Adam Boulton says, the Conservatives' Europe policy is a muddle. Hague's speech in the Commons chamber yesterday - riffing on...
+++ Barroso threatens carbon tariffs on US +++
Roger Harrabin has the story over at BBC News: The president of the European Commmission has threatened to impose carbon tariffs on imports unless the US...
A new grand bargain for Afghanistan?
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Al Gore survivors’ group
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Guerrilla infrastructure hacking
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Surprising consensus
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Fight! Fight!
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More questions than answers
My take on Miliband's speech: very nicely crafted, charmingly delivered, good structure to it, but raises more questions than answers. Effecting a synthesis...
Miliband’s Fabian keynote
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Obama outlines vision for humanity, document management
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Michael Chertoff heads major new US plan to halt climate change
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Gordon’s weird trip to China
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Live blogging Fabian foreign policy conference tomorrow
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The new public diplomacy: new Demos project
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Chris Haskins knows a bit about food. He's the former chairman of Northern Foods and Express Dairies, acted as Tony Blair's 'rural tsar', and he used to run...
Hillary’s inner Tracy Flick
From Slate, this delicious mash-up (hat-tip - Dan Drezner)
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