Helena Roy Helena Roy is a doctoral student in the Department of Economics at Stanford University. She lives in London and Palo Alto.

First World Problems | The Politics of Development Aid in Britain

Helena Roy

By June this year, the UK had surpassed 40,000 deaths from Covid-19. That same month also marked the end of a quarter in which the nation’s GDP shrunk by 20.4 percent, leaving the country firmly in the grip of a recession. At the same time, social movements percolated across the globe: Black Lives Matter protests had reached London, Birmingham, Manchester, and more UK cities following the death of George Floyd....