Links I liked

My favourite image from the global climate protests around last week’s UN meeting: Australian Campaigners Salute the Government’s Climate Change Strategy [h/t Jim Harris]

According to Pope Francis, ‘the corrupt should be tied to a rock and thrown into the sea’. Any chance that could become a new Oxfam policy recommendation?

People had a lot of fun with India’s frugal (and successful) Mars mission, which seems to have become an international benchmark for something or other:

It cost less than the movie Gravity or the first U.S. Stealth Jet Attack  [image error] on Syria
World Bank chief economist Kaushik Basu pointed out that since India’s BigMac purchasing power parity-PPP-is 3 and its Mars Mission PPP is 9 (i.e. 9 times cheaper than the US Mars probe), Ricardo would recommend India import burgers & export Mars Missions. Makes sense to me.

Superb summary of UK Middle East policy, left [h/t Stuart Lodge]

Civic Space Initiative: Civil Society Under Threat. The World Bank lists six legal constraints that governments are using to close us down.

I know she’s white, privileged and famous, but Hermione Emma Watson was still brilliant on the need for men to champion gender equality