Owen Barder

Good article on Devex Pro about Precision Development based on an interview with our excellent India Country Director, Niriksha Shetty.

David Mepham, who died this week, has a strong claim to be the person who did most to bring about the establishment of the UK’s Department for International Development.

A list of announcements that for the first time in history we can eradicate poverty.

This is a good round-up of the rights that EU citizens living in the UK seem likely to lose, notwithstanding the government’s protestations that their rights will be largely unchanged. I list them here, but they are better explained in the article. The right to go abroad The right to Read more…

How dare religious zealots impose their wicked views on the rest of us?

On the death of my father, Brian Barder. A life well lived.

We had the pleasure of taking part of the Otepää Ironman 70.3 in both 2016 and 2017.  Highly recommended.

Better global policies have brought about unprecedented improvements in many people’s lives. The right response to the present political challenge to this agenda is to do a far, far better job of making sure that we properly manage the negative effects for people who have lost out, and work much, much harder to share the gains more widely.

How to get turn by turn directions on a Garmin Forerunner 920XT

Let’s have the serenity to accept the things we cannot change; but give us the courage too to change the things we can.