Just to press on with the Daily Mail vendetta for a tad longer, the superb Will Tooke has caught the 'newspaper' in another piece of fakery. This time, taking...
David Steven
David Steven is a senior fellow at the UN Foundation and at New York University, where he founded the Global Partnership to End Violence against Children and the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies, a multi-stakeholder partnership to deliver the SDG targets for preventing all forms of violence, strengthening governance, and promoting justice and inclusion. He was lead author for the ministerial Task Force on Justice for All and senior external adviser for the UN-World Bank flagship study on prevention, Pathways for Peace. He is a former senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and co-author of The Risk Pivot: Great Powers, International Security, and the Energy Revolution (Brookings Institution Press, 2014). In 2001, he helped develop and launch the UK’s network of climate diplomats. David lives in and works from Pisa, Italy.
Daily Mail lies about Facebook (updated x7)
Daily Mail lies about Facebook. Facebook sues. Exclusive.
Ingham on Europe
In today's FT, William Hague underlines (again) that a new Conservative government will see the European Union as a platform for achieving progress on global...
Natalia Shakhova: permafrost failing
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD8hU-lbqpE&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
Not so permafrost
Today sees the release of worrying evidence that the East Siberian Arctic Shelf is leaking methane. Julia Whitty has a good account, based on this new paper...
How Britain ended apartheid (updated)
More disgraceful drivel from Con Coughlin, who is still employed by the Telegraph as its "executive foreign editor" (yep, there's a story behind that job...
Ku Klux Klan 2010 Rally in South Georgia
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxV9K3aw-h0[/youtube]
Stop Betting the House talk
Talk given by David Steven at Gresham College on risk and resilience in the UK housing market, as part of a Long Finance Roundtable meeting (March 2010)
Betting the House – Gresham talk
Yesterday, I was at the wonderful Gresham College for a seminar on housing - I posted some highlights earlier. But here's a lightly edited version of my talk....
Poor poor me
Just how did this ridiculous competition between right and left to pose as a victim become so tediously commonplace? Take this pathetic drivel from Iain...
1st accurate model of cause/effect in the global economy
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w[/youtube]
On housing – Gordon Brown, Mervyn King, asleep at the wheel
I gave a talk at Gresham College yesterday, drawing on my paper for the Long Finance Foundation on risk and resilience in the UK housing market. Also on the...
Africa to meet MDGs (updated)
Xavier Sala-i-Martin and Maxim Pinkovskiy today published a working paper today that drops the following bombshell (here's a free version): Our main...
Foreign Office leads EU coup
It's taken as a given here in the UK that Brits wield little influence in Europe. But apparently - not. According to the Guardian, an FCO-led coup is under...
Pay restraint in Germany
According to the FT, the German government is proud that it is keeping pay down in both the public and private sectors, and hopes this will provide an example...
Daniel Hannan rewrites Falklands’ history
MEP and internet superstar, Daniel Hannan is up in arms at what he sees Barack Obama sucking up to 'Peronist Argentina' on the Falklands. "When matters last...
Hague the Bear (updated)
I am rather taken aback by William Hague's claim, reported by Iain Dale, that the UK is forecast to be only the world's 11th largest economy by 2015. Given...
Betting the House
On Tuesday (March 2nd), I am speaking at a seminar on resilience in the UK housing market. The seminar picks up on my recent paper for the Long Finance...
Autotune the UN
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnoD3NUux3M&feature=PlayList&p=kLi6BpF1IZ4[/youtube]
What it means to forget
Yesterday, a British police dog handler was found guilty of animal cruelty after leaving his two Alsatians in the back of a boiling car. His defence?...
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