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Blog Post
August 05, 2021
The case against the cuts to the UK’s aid budget is well-rehearsed. We know they damage the UK’s contribution to its own priorities, that the stated aim to revivify the budget when “fiscal conditions allow” is barely coherent, and that it leaves a laundry list of good causes going wanting.
Blog Post
July 30, 2021
That was a well-timed week off: we arrived in Cornwall in glorious sunshine and left just as the rain clouds (and summer holiday visitors) began to gather. In between, there was an inhuman quantity of fish and chips and pasties, scallops barbecued on the shell, “swimming” expeditions that involved s...
Blog Post
July 16, 2021
Sorry for the unannounced radio silence last week – I went on leave and forgot to announce my absence; no doubt the absence of the links was marked by wailing, a virtual vigil and panicked phone calls. Next week will be the same, and I’ll be taking time off through the summer, so I may disappear wit...
Blog Post
July 02, 2021
Can I start by being a grinch? Every few years, England win a football match and the whole country loses its marbles: mass outbreaks of hugging– in England, no less, a country where the aversion to voluntary physical contact with strangers is so great that only something as virulent as Coronavi...
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June 25, 2021
One of the best things I read all week was Justin Sandefur laying the absolute smack down on the World Bank in Nature. I know what you’re thinking – he’s already killed the Doing Business survey, has he no mercy? But it’s for a good cause. He argues that the Bank’s failure t...