Of new social contracts and âgoon squads' on social media
I don’t often quote the United Nations (UN). Not because they don’t say sensible stuff. But because their sound bites are not as memorable as that which their opposition – rogue states, global terrorists – says. Because the UN, like any international humanitarian organisation, is stretched like a taut laundry line full of dirty linen being washed in front of a planetary public. Which is to say that the best-intentioned world leaders are hung for humanitarians as muc