Donald Luskin has long held the position of 'stupidest man alive' - but Larry Kudlow has surely now taken the crown. A couple of days' ago, I posted a...
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.
Privatise all the banks?
So it looks like we're getting close to an announcement of a 'bad bank' here in the UK, with signs that this move has been co-ordinated with the new US...
A very modern rescue
Via the excellent Dealbreaker...
Flattering crap banks
According to the Telegraph, the government is considering setting up a 'bad bank' to take on the toxic assets that continue to drag down the UK's financial...
“Abolish the media” – Plumber
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJYCxj8KXjQ[/youtube] Joe the Plumber's made it to Israel and has come to a rapid conclusion: war reporting should be...
Bretton Woods II – let’s remember the last time
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRzr1QU6K1o[/youtube] In last month's New Atlantic, James Fallows had a fascinating interview with Gao Xiqing, Chief...
The genius of Larry Kudlow
Optimism is in short supply at the moment, so I was psyched to read that Larry Kudlow - the National Review's economics editor and (in his owns words) "a...
Biochar – better than burning sheep
A while ago, a few beers drunk, I became embroiled in speculating about decidedly unconventional ways of controlling greenhouse gases. Two ideas lodged firmly...
Dumb kids in charge at State
There are many reasons why American foreign policy has been so teeth-grindingly awful during the Bush years, but the hiring policy for ambassadors probably...
The people of Sark “reap what they sow” – democracy in action
The Barclay twins - billionaire owners of the UK's Telegraph newspapers and various other interests - are famously reclusive. So in the early 1990s, they...
Obama’s new energy chief on energy efficiency
Steven Chu - Nobel prize laureate in Physics - is Obama's new energy secretary. He's freaked out by climate change, and believes that energy efficiency should...
Wikipaedophile latest
Yesterday, I posted on UK action to block a Wikipedia page because it includes an image from a 1970's Scorpions album cover that the Internet Watch Foundation...
Weekend roundup…
It was a very busy weekend on Global Dashboard. So in case you missed it: Charlie Edwards on the John Boyd conference 2008. Incoherence in Poznan. Trouble for...
Wikipaedophile
Prepare yourself for a bad-tempered row over UK attempts to censor Wikipedia. The reason? Virgin Killer - a 1970s album from German heavy metal band,...
Incoherence in Poznan
The climate talks in Poznan were never going to be a dazzling success - but, away from the nitty gritty of text, three big things need to happen for a...
India-Pak – wouldn’t it be fun to have a war?
In an extraordinary twist to the Mumbai attrocities, Pakistan's Dawn News is reporting that Pakistan prepared for war after their President - Asif Ali...
Follow me
If you're bemused by Twitter, here's what it's really about. And part two's here. H/T Luke Pollard. (Oh and by the way - you can follow Alex and...
On long-term targets
What's striking about the climate talks in Poznan is that (some) developed countries want a long-term goal, while (most) developing countries are only...
When Ethiopia ruled the world
Christmas 2006 and Santa brings the American right an unexpected Christmas present - the invasion of (nasty, Islamic) Somalia by (nice, Christian) Ethiopia....
In Brown’s Britain, Stalin rides again
It's been very disturbing to discover today that I have a contraband government document in my possession. Given the recent furore over leaks, I am expecting...
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