http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-week/leading-article/8789981/glad-tidings/ http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-week/leading-article/8789981/... "In 1990, the UN anno

http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-week/leading-article/8789981/glad-tidings/ http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-week/leading-article/8789981/... "In 1990, the UN announced Millennium Development Goals, the first of which was to halve the number of people in extreme poverty by 2015. It emerged this year that the target was met in 2008. Yet the achievement did not merit an official announcement, presumably because it was not achieved by any government scheme but by the pace of global capitalism." For some, this is a very uncomfortable fact.