Crisis as Opportunity. Big oil making out like bandits right now, acc to FT ‘Blogs and social media have sparked a perpetual open and public conversation around new ideas, methods, pre-prints, funding, ethics, and technology that ranges across the research lifecycle.’ Andy Tattersall argues that research bids should include 5% for comms. Checking in with Joseph Stiglitz on the state

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Singhsburys v Morrisinghs…… A tragedy pushed to the shadows: the truth about China’s Cultural Revolution. Evocative long read from Tania Branigan, excerpted from her new book. Top Oxfam job: Head of Washington DC office, influencing the IMF, World Bank etc. Following the excellent Nadia Daar. Deadline 29th Jan Governance diaries: a method that brings together the strengths of ethnographic, longitudinal,

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Teaching is weird. You engage on quite an intense level with each year’s cohort of students, and then they fly the nest, and you hear very little about what happens next. Still less whether their studies actually helped (I’m still trying to work out whether my Physics degree has been a help or hindrance in grappling with the complexities of

Everyone ready? Ht Bryan Dawe Remembering Martin Ravallion, superstar analyst of poverty and inequality, who died just before Christmas. Memories and plaudits from his World Bank colleagues. In Effort to ‘Move the Needle,’ UN Chief Announces Special Summit on Climate Crisis ht Saleemul Huq Excellent overview of humanitarian policy issues: ‘What’s on our aid policy radar in 2023?’ The “deep

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Hi there, hope you had a good break (if you took one). Mine was great – highlights included sorting out the spice cupboard and watching lots of really crap TV. Life in the fast lane eh? Everyone else did their top blogs of 2022 before Christmas, but I’m coming in a bit late with mine to kick off 2023. In

Superb. Most popular New Yorker cartoons of the year. Treat yourself for a few minutes. The best African films of 2022 – some of these look great. The art of influencing: how to maximize impact in a complex, interconnected world Wall Of Kindness in Stockholm – “take a coat if you need it or leave one if you have a

Ok, it’s a bit late, but if you’re stumped for a Christmas present for an intellectually curious friend or relative, I’ve got a top recommendation. Ha-Joon Chang’s latest book, Edible Economics, is a (Christmas) cracker. Full disclosure: Ha-Joon is an old and good friend. Since we first met in the late 1990s, when he was writing Kicking Away the Ladder,

Harry Potter’s characters, if written by Dostoevsky ht Andrey Mir Calling all social change leaders! Start your journey now by applying to the fully-funded Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity programme at LSE Inequalities Institute. Applications by 5pm GMT on 12 January 2023. Unhinged and disturbing ad for roller skating, c/o Hayley Clarkin Believing the risks of mismanagement, corruption,