Monday, 9 February 2026

Presentation Matters: Humanitarian Responses to the ‘Defence Shift’ in the Global Funding Landscape

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2025 saw the largest shift in the global aid landscape in decades . The USAID shutdown, along with drastic funding cuts from many other maj...
Friday, 10 January 2025

The Future of a 'Progressive Realist' FCDO in the Age of Polycrisis

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The Locarno Speech , delivered by Foreign Secretary David Lammy on 9 th January, lays out a bold new plan for British foreign policy in 202...
Friday, 12 January 2024

The Butterfly Foundation for Peace – Shifting Mindsets of Street Children in Blantyre

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There are an estimated 15,000 children living on the streets in Malawi. They do so for a variety of reasons , such as poverty at home, fami...
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Saturday, 16 September 2023

Remembering the Past in Blantyre: A Trip to the Museum of Malawi

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Today I visited the Chichiri Museum in Blantyre, also known as the Museum of Malawi, which was first opened in 1957 at Mandala House, the ea...
Friday, 15 September 2023

More Than Skin-Deep: The Trials of Persons with Albinism in Malawi

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Today was a hot day in Blantyre, and as I went out at lunch time to stretch my legs and explore, I felt the brunt of the near-equatorial sun...
Monday, 11 September 2023

Remembering the Past in Blantyre: A Complex Colonial Figure

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I wasn’t expecting to follow up my first blog post from Blantyre quite so soon, but I’ve had another day exploring the city and one of the p...