Virtue signalling is supposed to be a bad thing. And it is. When we post something on social media only in order to show off what great moral beings we are, this is called virtue signalling. The dark ...

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Ricky Gervais is on typically unapologetic form in his latest Netflix stand-up special. The co-creator of The Office used ...

The Vande Mataram debate reveals insecurity. In the UK, dissent doesn't collapse the nation. India seems fragile by ...

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Are we such a fragile society that pointing out illegal and unethical behavior is now too much for us to handle?

The international development system is in disarray. Aid budgets have been slashed in the UK and abroad, USAID has been gutted, and the development banks like the World Bank divert ever more of their ...