James Longland
James Longland is an international development and sustainability expert with extensive experience in the developing world.
International aid – size isn’t everything
The 0.7% target has only ever been an incentive for more aid, not better aid
British self-interested aid
Is it wrong that donor countries should also benefit from their development aid projects?
When youth becomes period drama
The stakes feel very high when our younger years become the stuff of popular entertainment
Ending Britain’s childcare arms race
What is the end goal of extending childcare provision?
Scary cute
CUTE, a new exhibition at Somerset House is a deliciously unsettling stroll down the uncanny valley
The new medical misogyny
Female people are not small male people who lack penises
Lutfur Rahman and the future of localism
A new and dangerous kind of local politics is emerging in Britain
Radical extremes of academic inadequacy
There is something amiss in the academic study of extremism
The fallacy of soft power
The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital
The Roman Republic is worth thinking about
The life and death of Tiberius Gracchus illustrate the virtues of populism
Kilkenny’s golden age
A fascinating exploration of Irish history could have been better and more comprehensively illustrated
The problem with e-mortality
Techno-utopians are failing reason and failing technology