This is a big post in two parts. The first is our take on the current story about the Himalayan glaciers. The second is a similar case of non-scientific research being passed off as 'science'. A story in the Sunday Times demonstrates the murky nature of the process by...
Painting Pictures of Poverty
It’s Oxfam. Again. Some people have been a little confused about our ‘attacks’ on Oxfam. Why would we want to criticise nice people who are trying to do good? We are interested in the ideas which Oxfam use to understand and explain the problems they hope to answer....
“Environmental Justice” – a Fiction
Oxfam, with the Climate Justice Program and Advocates for International Development are running a competition. We are calling on lawyers, academics and law students worldwide to put forward the strongest legal case possible to demonstrate that rich countries’...
Who's the Basket Case, Oxfam?
There's an advert for Oxfam running on UK TV at the moment that caught our attention. It is most odd. [youtube eQK6ODxDfDY] The little old lady and her friends seem to be vomiting at injustice, thereby making the world a better place. In a way, this almost represents...
Backwards to the Future
Oxfam was once a charity set up to provide famine relief. It was hard to criticise without looking a bit mean. It is now a gigantic international NGO which influences the direction of policy towards and within the developing world. Like many other organisations, it...