someone put their pronouns in their email signature in 2017 and now the world's most irksome Boer has my social security number

Aid — since it was formalised and linked to gov — has always served as a state arm.

Trump merging USAID to the DoS is an acknowledgement of that fact. The same as DFID into FCDO.

In some sense, this was inevitable, given the decline of activism and rise of donor-power.

We need a new model.

Reassuring to see the Israeli hostages – actually all of them are soldiers captured from an army base that has been enforcing a brutal siege of Gaza for 17 years – looking well on their release.

If only we could say the same about the Palestinian hostages Israel is releasing in these swaps.