Via PublicShaming, a helpful snapshot of people who think that (a) Chechnya and Czechoslovakia are the same place, and (b) the latter still exists. Isn't it...
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.
Syria: why not a no-fly zone?
Enthusiasm for foreign intereventions from the sky seems to ebb and flow as the years go by. Back during the Kosovo intervention, Clinton and Blair were...
Boston and the new rules of media
Full marks to Buzzfeed for identifying the key point amid today's information blizzard from Boston (and for keeping their heads while all around them are...
Department of Homeland Security: “how to survive an active shooter event”
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VcSwejU2D0&list=PLUra6uw6CXK9SNLZeddcLIufDY5OfnMpU&index=1[/youtube]
Now why would David Miliband be leaving for New York?
Honestly, the Westminster village can be so up itself in its sheer self-referentiality. More or less every piece I've read today on why David Miliband might...
Obama’s Israel speech
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxfw3ZfBx6I[/youtube]
Avaaz CEO Ricken Patel’s Commonwealth lecture
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHtMAVxS690[/youtube]
10 things we missed or got wrong 5 years ago at the height of the credit crunch and food/fuel spike
This summer will mark five years since 2008, the year of both the first flush of the global financial crisis, and of the peak of the combined food and fuel...
Wealth inequality in America
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM#![/youtube]
The Tories are going to spend the aid budget on helicopter gunships!
Or so you might believe from your RSS feeds this morning. The Guardian, BBC, FT and others are all carrying the story that (as the Guardian has it), "David...
We need an MDG on quinoa!
Breaking news on the post-2015 development agenda just in from Richard in New York, who reports that the UN Secretary-General has set a major new agenda on...
NGOs at their absolute worst
Now this campaign really annoys me. A gaggle of NGOs have joined forces to launch a declaration demanding that the European Union scrap its emissions trading...
Austerity or plenty?
There's a very thoughtful article on where social democracy needs to go next over at Renewal (h/t to Casper for the link), which is thoroughly worth a read....
Quote of the week: “While I’m not comparing the Rebel Alliance to Al Qaeda or the Galactic Empire to the United States…”
Finding myself watching Empire Strikes Back last night, I found myself reflecting once again on the general crappiness of the rebels' defenses - for instance,...
Let’s measure everything!
Here's that nice Bill Gates extolling the gospel of measuring what we do in development: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=380sy5_ZQzo[/youtube] And...
Game changer time: China’s working age population is now in decline
Last year saw a big tipping point in China that went relatively unnoticed: its working age population shrank, kicking off a trend that will carry on over the...
Where it all went wrong on US climate policy
Remember back in 2006 and 2007 when it looked as though the US was about to get really serious on climate policy? You know, when not only Hillary Clinton and...
How to do facipulation
In plenary and group feedback time, use the “there’s just so much participation going on I can’t capture it all!” trick to ignore or skip over what you don’t...
Kate Raworth at the RSA – must-watch re post-2015 and sustainability economics
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqJL-cM8gb4[/youtube]
The US religious right: losing clout, but still holding the world to ransom on sustainability…
The received wisdom about the Tea Party is that it's pretty different in character to the old Moral Majority style religious right that was such a huge factor...
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