Next up in this series of posts from my LSE activism students, Alexia Fageroux, who went with a sound-off vlog option for her assignment. Full project on which her vlog is based here. Next week, back to boring old me – sorry!

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Next up in our summer student post series is Andreas Brox. Here’s his full project, on which this blog is based. It has been two years since this fricking pandemic has started and like everyone else, I am pretty sick of hearing about it. Thankfully, it feels very much like it is over in Germany, where I am from, or

Next up is in our series of summer students spots is Rebecca Milon. Her full campaign proposal is here.

Next up on this series of posts from my indomitable LSE students, Ximena Altamirano. Here’s the full campaign strategy on which this post was based. The world is going through a climate crisis; temperatures are rising, icecaps melting and forests depleting – that is not exactly news. While we are all doing our part in protecting the planet, Latin American

Next up in our summer season of top blogs from my LSE students, here’s Maitland Murray, who among other things, is exploring the use of humour in activism for his dissertation. Here’s the full project on which this blog is based. Tired of being called an armchair activist but very cozy in your warm leather embrace? Spend a lot of

Next up in our summer season of posts by my LSE activism students is Sneha Mojumdar, who went with the option of producing a vlog, rather than writing a blogpost – see what you think. The full project on which her vlog is based is here.

Impossible to tell whether this Russian ad trying to convince people to move there is satire or serious. Either way, it’s v funny. ht David Patrikarikos ‘Power shift? USAID and localisation’. Interesting piece: Points out that the quickest way to large scale localization is direct budget support to governments. Hadn’t thought of that. Duh. At least 140 aid workers were

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While my wonderful LSE activism students are pulling their hair out over their dissertations, I thought I’d post a few of their excellent blogs and vlogs, describing their strategy for a campaign they would love to run. First up Yossma Sohail. Full strategy here. Karachi is so dirty. Heaps of rubbish. A city incapable of tolerating a rain shower because

Guest post by Eyokia Donna Juliet  At the recent AU Humanitarian Summit, finding African solutions to African problems was an important theme. What will it take to walk the talk? In Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia now, it’s likely that a person is dying of hunger every 48 seconds. How many years of neglect, denial, and short-sighted decisions by policy makers

Just been skimming an interesting new paper by Caroline Dommen, with an ambitious purpose – to brand and describe a new branch of economics – Human Rights Economics (HRE). Her starting point: ‘in many ways economic thought and practice currently disregard human rights. HRE is of the view that the world needs an economic system that is fairer for people