CAPX
The Department for International Development (DfID) of the UK government wants to increase direct cash transfers to up to six million people. In the light of the truly shocking Oxfam scandal last week, bypassing charities altogether may prove appetising.

CAPX
The language of “support” frames a local business in those paramount dual virtues of our day: victimhood and vulnerability.

UNHERD
The population boom over the past five hundred years here on Earth has been staggering. Homo sapiens is on the brink of a monumental great leap forward as a species.

UNHERD
There are only 32 harvests left before the world’s population hits 10 billion in 2050. Between then and now, farmers around the world need to increase production by 70%.

THE WEEK
The rise of social media has polarised society by herding us into self-reinforcing echo chambers. That’s the conventional wisdom these days, say Chris Bullivant. But it’s not true.

UNHERD
Polarised views, diametrically opposed and vehemently held, have always lived side by side in society. But in the past, we lived largely in blissful ignorance of them.

UNHERD
This month, an 18-year-old Iraqi refugee, who had been living in the UK for three years, took a homemade bomb onto the London Underground.

UNHERD
Does Jacindamania and Corbynmania suggest a global swing to the Left? Or is Jacindamania part of a pattern of voter volatility?

UNHERD
The UK’s decision to leave the EU has created enormous uncertainty. The depth of this uncertainty is greater than most politicians or media outlets admit.

UNHERD
There is a small building on the side of the railway tracks on my commute. A sad bungalow masked by signs in bright primary colors. It is a daycare facility.

I WRITE WHAT I LIKE
The resulting exposé is an accurate, empathetic, portrayal of a very regular feature of British life