On the death of my father, Brian Barder. A life well lived.

We had the pleasure of taking part of the Otepää Ironman 70.3 in both 2016 and 2017.  Highly recommended.

Better global policies have brought about unprecedented improvements in many people’s lives. The right response to the present political challenge to this agenda is to do a far, far better job of making sure that we properly manage the negative effects for people who have lost out, and work much, much harder to share the gains more widely.

How to get turn by turn directions on a Garmin Forerunner 920XT

Let’s have the serenity to accept the things we cannot change; but give us the courage too to change the things we can.

Getting on the bandwagon of identifying lessons from Team GB’s relative success at the 2016 Olympic Games.

Thoughts the day after the Brexit referendum.

The most effective aid donor in the world is probably not who you think it is.

In which I fact check and annotate today’s Vote Leave leaflet

Hans Rosling, using ODI data, said that middle income countries get three times as much aid as low income countries, per person in poverty. Actually low income countries get 79% more aid per poor person than middle income countries.