Links I Liked

Handy acronyms for online reviews (h/t Shit Academics Say) 

The awesome Gates Foundation lobby machine went into overdrive to defend aid budgets last week, with a report on past progress in 18 areas now in peril, Bill in the Guardian saying they are lobbying Congress rather than wasting breath on the President and Melinda talking to the FT (video)

Owen Barder kept us up to date on policy incoherence for development: British Ambassador lobbies Bangladesh government to let British American Tobacco off the hook for £170m in unpaid VAT.

Meanwhile a US-Africa summit on energy (and Power Africa) is cancelled because so many African participants were denied US visas.

In the US, a cop pulls over a black driver for failure to signal, walks to his car with his gun drawn. Mistake, on balance

Another sharp Save the Kids video, this time on UK’s unforgiveable arms sales to Saudi’s war in Yemen (policy incoherence again, but more bloody)