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@comatose7 Right. And what do they have in common...? about 17 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone in reply to comatose7
I'm just dying here reading all the eurovision tweets... in a departure lounge in addis ababa about 18 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone
johannhari101 The Saudis should be excluded from Olympics if they ban women from competing. Would we allow a country that banned black contestants? 5:00 AM May 26th via Buffer Retweeted by alexevansuk and 323 others
Good for Christine Lagarde for telling it like it is. Progressives need to stop making Greece out to be a total victim. m.guardian.co.uk/ms/p/gnm/op/se… 3:36 AM May 26th via Safari on iOS
@chr1stianh I would think, with how many cookies they have on my hard drive ;-) 7:19 AM May 25th via web in reply to chr1stianh
@chr1stianh I don't have an IT department! I'm not on a network! This is just me, my laptop, and Microsoft's unbelievable urge to meddle... 7:05 AM May 25th via web in reply to chr1stianh
Outlook, in its wisdom, has blocked a shortcut that I emailed to myself, which is to a file on my own computer. *@%£*!!! 7:02 AM May 25th via web
davidsteven #ff to all those people who are stimulus-loving Keynesians while being dreadfully cross at all the money wasted on the Olympics. 5:53 AM May 25th via web Retweeted by alexevansuk and 7 others
@DavidTaylor85 Anything back from AK re my email? I should probably get back to GB today... 1:29 AM May 25th via web
benfenton Mail and Telegraph splash on Hunt. Double page spread in Mail & powerful leader saying Hunt should have resigned already.Trouble at t' mill. 1:15 AM May 25th via TweetDeck Retweeted by alexevansuk and 7 others
@chr1stianh :-) #like 1:14 AM May 25th via web in reply to chr1stianh
@chr1stianh can you RT this one without a bit.ly link? - wd be interested to read, but bit.ly is barred here! 12:57 AM May 25th via web in reply to chr1stianh
If Jeremy Hunt's memo puts his job in question, surely the blowback's worse for Cameron for appointing him to rule on the bid? 12:56 AM May 25th via web
@TimMontgomerie Does it make sense to think of Cameron allies among Bishops? E.g. Richard Chartres defies neat party pigeonholing 12:54 AM May 25th via web in reply to TimMontgomerie
@iainjwatt agreed - well spotted by you though 8:49 AM May 24th via Twitter for iPhone in reply to iainjwatt
iainjwatt @alexevansuk Yes, tis annual emissions that are now 45% higher than in 1990. @WorldwatchInst language not clear imho 8:44 AM May 24th via web Retweeted by alexevansuk
@iainjwatt what's the source for the 354 figure? 7:18 AM May 24th via Twitter for iPhone in reply to iainjwatt
DavidWooding It's so hot in London today that one of the panels on the glass roof of Portcullis House, part of the House of Commons, has shattered. 7:02 AM May 24th via web Retweeted by alexevansuk and 3 others
Anyone in NYC Sunday night want to come and hear Tom Middleton play out at an early eve open air soiree by the river? 7:15 AM May 24th via Twitter for iPhone
PickardJE 247 texts from Adam Smith to Fred Michel. 800 texts from Michel to Smith. Doesn't exactly look great. 3:24 AM May 24th via web Retweeted by alexevansuk

Name Alex Evans
Location Addis Ababa
Web http://www.global...
Bio Globalisation / resource scarcity / development / resilience. Based at NYU Center on International Cooperation and Brookings. Co-editor of GlobalDashboard.org.