Mark Normington·Oct 15Against NetworkingNetworking is a fundamentally unjust way of handling recruitment which advantages those who are best connected, not who are most capableA response icon2A response icon2
Mark Normington·Nov 19, 2020Yes, “military-age males” can be refugees, tooProgressives may be inadvertently fuelling toxic anti-refugee attitudes in the way we speak about menA response icon1A response icon1
Mark Normington·Oct 8, 2018Could a Commonwealth Free Trade Area be a success?Trade is back on the agenda. Following the UK’s vote to leave the European Union and the election of Donald Trump in the USA, trade policy…
Mark Normington·Apr 26, 2018The Forgotten Victims of Gender-Based ViolenceThe Rohingya Crisis continues to make headlines, as more and more evidence of shocking human rights violations comes to light. Gender-based…
Mark Normington·Apr 26, 2018International development is under attack. Charities need to rethink their fundraising messagingGlobal citizenship is under attack in the UK. Attitudes are hardening towards those living in poverty overseas, and it is becoming…
Mark Normington·Apr 26, 2018‘Aid money is spent on the wrong things’There is a widespread belief that overseas aid money is either handed over to corrupt dictators and never reaches the people it is supposed…
Mark Normington·Apr 26, 2018‘They’re poor because they’re lazy’A common attitude nowadays is that people are rich because they work hard and deserve to be wealthy, whereas people are poor because they…A response icon2A response icon2
Mark Normington·Apr 26, 2018‘Why has nothing been achieved?’The fight to eradicate global poverty has been going on for decades. Yet despite all the money that has been donated and all the work that…
Mark Normington·Apr 24, 2018‘I’d rather give them the money myself’Widespread concerns about dodgy and unscrupulous overseas aid charities not sending donations where they’re supposed to have led some…
Mark Normington·Apr 24, 2018‘Their own government should help them’It is without a doubt true that governments should help their own people. However, this phrase is often used to mean that the welfare of…
