Joe blogs.

… So I've donated 10% of my 2025 salary (sorry, a bit belatedly) to some top malaria prevention charities, and some other charities too. I blog here for my own accountability and in the small hope it might encourage others to do so. Whenever I waiver abou

The figure from the Lancet, a leading medical journal, includes 700,000 child deaths globally a year.

This blog is now basically just a public record of my donation pledge… I aim to write more, about other stuff, at some point. See previous years' posts for the explanation of why giving 10% of your salary is a moral imperative - and also made very straigh

Sorry if I've mentioned this before, but if you're reading this, you're probably in the top 5% of high earners worldwide. Perhaps top 2-3%. If you're not sure, you can look it up via this handy calculator. In the absence of a global wealth taxation scheme

The photo of turmeric will be explained, promise. I'm very behind on life admin. Here's what is normally an early January post of new year's day donations. (New year's day because it was a new year's resolution…today it might make more sense to combine th

Previously, on this blog: Research into the democracy 'sector' suggests that some efforts could be made to improve networking in the space (and that this is an excellent way to support the pursuit of a better democracy);I wrote up some ways to do that… bu

Last year, I published the results of a range of interviews across the democracy sector. It was only a small project, so I wasn't able to speak to everyone I had hoped to. Happily, Nesta funded an 'expansion pack' of interviews, and some more insight from

Previously, on worrying-about-democracy: Our democracy needs some work;Perhaps the cheapest and quickest first step is to better connect everyone who's already working on democracy, share info, coordinate and collaborate;That seems to be popular - there a

Since 2014, I've donated one-tenth of my salary/income to end poverty. I do so alongside thousands of other folks, having pledged to via Giving What We Can. The idea is that we in richer countries are very wealthy in the grand scheme of things and a small

Over the summer, I researched and wrote Networking for Democracy, funded by JRRT. It looked at the needs, capacity, tools and approaches for the democracy sector to better share information, to coordinate and collaborate. This post is about what happened