Robin Perry

Interested in justice in its many colours. Happy to be corrected.

[James Harris @JamesHarrisNow]

'Emergency politics podcasts sir... thousands of 'em'

[Dan Honig (DanHonig.bsky) @rambletastic]

First chapter of Mission Driven Bureaucrats now free to read here: https://t.co/jFn4Wtwqsk. Thanks!

[Chris Blattman @cblatts]

A Gates Foundation style post, full of decent economics and noble humanitarianism, but the new anti-politics machine. There will be a likely be a debt crisis in several African countries and it’s better to get ahead of it. But nowhere is it implied that there are deep political problems at root, and few are solved. The war in Ethiopia is treated as something that just happened to it, alongside locusts. Several African leaders are quoted saying “we ought to spent on better things in future” without any thought to actual incentives, and how the structure of debt relief and aid can address them.

[Raphaël Merx @RaphaelMerx]

Coming to Google Translate: Tetun, Tok Pisin, Balinese, Fijian, Acehnese, and many other languages of SEA & the Pacific!

Let's test quality when they release, but potentially a small revolution in MT for our region

https://t.co/sp8JMFZ95E

[Foreign Affairs @ForeignAffairs]

Read @brhodes on the dangers of a second Trump term—and how, if reelected, Biden can build a foreign policy agenda that resonates with more of the world’s governments and people:
https://t.co/Bca0pBLRQY

[Robin Perry @RobinPez]

@Dicker_JJ And the flaunting of a red cape for COLA

[Asia-Pacific 4D @AsiaPacific4D]

Great to see #AP4D's work cited by @devintellab's @HeatherMurphy in her latest for @devpolicy. She says "fresh thinking & serious effort" are needed for DFAT to become a "world-class #development agency".

"A tool [of #statecraft] is only as powerful as the hand that wields it."

[Shaun Riordan @shaun_riordan]

Obits of Li Keqiang mention his wife translated Yes Prime Minister into Chinese. When I was in the Embassy there in late 80s we lent our videos of Yes Minister to MFA. When we asked for them back they said they were using them to train Chinese diplomats @vtchakarova

[Robin Perry @RobinPez]

@PaulFletcherMP Scraping the bottom of the hollow, grubby Libs barrel

[Rugby World Cup @rugbyworldcup]

It’s the precious moments like these 💚

@SiyaKolisi | #RWC2023

[Dr Timothy Utteridge @timutteridge]

Trees of New Guinea:

- Guide to all 693 genera
- Fully illustrated
- PDF available on request!

https://t.co/KYM02eXRHJ

[Stephanie March @steph_march]

A moment before the war - we were in Israel and the West Bank a few weeks ago documenting rising tensions there before the Israel/Gaza war - this is our 30-minute report

https://t.co/n0Sz9H8eED

#foreigncorrespondent @ABCTV

[Stephen Dziedzic @stephendziedzic]

Interesting from Jose Ramos-Horta this morning on @RNBreakfast - he says China *turned down* requests from Timor Leste to help develop police and military infrastructure because of Australian "sensitivities"

He's also v bullish on Greater Sunrise; solution by "early next year"

[Rugby World Cup @rugbyworldcup]

Who makes it all the way?

#RWC2023

[Dani Rodrik @rodrikdani]

The certainty with which The Economist approaches most economic questions about which we have the foggiest notions never ceases to amaze me.

[PRGuy @PRGuy17]

Just seen this now — wow!

[Ari Rex @ari_rex]

Only in #Canberra!
An incredible cumunlonimbus cloud formation that appeared over Canberra's skies in the form of a heart pumping blood.
Second picture shows a few minutes later..

[Colm Downes @ColminIndonesia]

A photograph of an intense card game in Bogor, Indonesia has won this year’s CEWE Photo Award, beating over half a million other entries.

The CEWE Photo Award 2023 photo competition had 10 different categories celebrating the theme '‘Our world is beautiful’. This week, the 10 winning images from 509,612 entries were announced.

Ariani Dikye, from Indonesia, was judged to have captured the best photograph, with her photograph “Warung kopi” which was selected as winner of both the ‘people’ category and the overall contest.

"Warung kopi – a place where people meet and hang out in Bogor, Indonesia" - Photograph: Dikye Ariani

https://t.co/MI4eXXNh0I