The world’s wealthiest people, whose fortunes already strained comprehension, collectively gained $1 trillion last year, according to Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index. It’s the smiles that get you….
‘For lots of people, the nuts & bolts of practical political action can often be daunting. Which is why @galdemzine is launching our brand new ‘How To’ series – a collection of straightforward guides on how to do everything from start a campaign to setting up a food co-op. We’re kicking off January’s How To with the guide to starting a lobbying campaign, which hopefully answers some of the burning questions you might have if you’ve ever wanted to run one, answered by campaigners on the ground’.
Kazakhstan unrest: Internet cut amid fuel protests. For anyone who thinks removing fossil fuel subsidies is a straightforward ‘win-win’, please reflect on the message leaders will be taking from the way cuts in subsidies triggered a political crisis and bloody crackdown.
Crisis responses, opportunity, and public authority during Covid‐19’s first wave in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and South Sudan (Self-citation claxon: I was one of a pile of authors – what’s the collective noun? Current front-runner ‘a confusion of authors’ (Naomi Hossain) although I’m proposing ‘a wrong of writers’)
Fair amount of crystal-balling for 2022:
- 5 trends shaping global development in 2022. Nice piece from Devex boss Raj Kumar. Trend 1: ‘2022 could be a break-out year for localization’. Here’s hoping.
- Here’s the humanitarian aid version from the consistently excellent New Humanitarian
- And also its ten humanitarian crises and trends to watch in 2022
Why Are Economists Always Wrong? Love the title, love the 10m video from recovering City trader and self-styled ‘people’s economist’ Gary Stevenson.
A ‘broth’ of authors seems apt. Assonance aside, it combines the positive attributes of intermingling and versatility with the hint of ‘too many cooks…’
Although ‘stew’ is also tempting, given authors’ tendency to neurosis and anxiety…..
A surfeit of authors.
Spoken like a publisher – nice!
Stevenson is super!
“Stew” works if the ideas blend with soft or no borders; “salad” works if complementary ideas remain individual (and plays off of “word salad”). I also like a “possibility” of writers.