Links I liked

Hold those Monday morning emails while you squander a few minutes on the highlights from last week’s tweeted clickbait (@fp2p)

Wondering what to think about bombing ISIS/ISIL/IS (and could someone please explain why it has so many acronyms?) This excellent piece from Alex Evans makes a strong case against.

The horror of air travel, beautifully spoofed by The Onion: Report from Franz Kafka Airport.  [h/t George Monbiot]

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This week’s Inequality links

Latin America’s impressive recent falls in inequality seem to be running out of steam. What happens next?

One of the best US inequality charts yet. Benefits of US growth are getting more and more unequally distributed [h/t Ben Phillips]

Is Muslim feminism different from the Western kind? ‘What do Muslim women want? Finding women’s rights in Islam’

‘The strongest predictors of violence are social and ethnic cleavages, and minority group power-sharing’. Chris Blattman finds that data from 242 Liberian communities provide strong ability to predict local conflict

Some meritocratic nepotism as my sister-in-law Mary Matheson cranks out another great video on girls’ rights, this one ‘co-created with youtube trenders’ (I think those are people who teach you how to put on make-up and stuff)