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Enclosure of the Commons – 21st Century Edition
I was pondering for a presentation on Thursday why it is that inequality between countries has…
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Ageing Groover from Vancouver
Much to the derision of my younger colleagues, we went to see Bryan Adams at Wembley…
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“One of Mr Blair’s successes”
I’ve just heard Jack Straw tell the Today programme that one of Mr Blair’s great successes…
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A legacy of effective institutions?
One of Tony Blair’s blind spots – as I think he would be among the first…
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Fascist America in 10 easy steps
You must read this article by Naomi Wolf in the Guardian From Hitler to Pinochet and…
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Are Sachs’s Millennium Villages Projects scalable?
Tyler Cowen on Jeff Sachs’s Millennium Village project In my view Sach’s [sic] work is admirable…
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Barack Obama on US Aid
In a speech to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Barack Obama has promised to double…
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Things I learned again yesterday
G and I both ran the London Marathon yesterday, on a beautiful warm day. G had…
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NGOs – are they effective?
Not according to Blake Lambert and Wendy Glauser who write about Canadian NGOs: Part of the…
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A tale of two inquiries
The Government has consistently refused to set up a statutory inquiry into the way that many…
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