“A growing force” | David Dodwell

This is pretty gross. BRICS. The gang of looters, villains and scoundrels just got bigger, and David Dodwell sees it as "a voice of hope”? 

Adding Iran and Saudi Arabia, to Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

A kleptocracy (Brazil), a Marxist dictatorship (China), a theocracy (Saudi), a Jew-hating would-be genocidist (Iran), and a revanchist military state (Russia), club together and that's the "hope" of the world. 

ADDED: Just had a look at the UNDP Human Development Report and the BRICS present and future, take bottom positions on the table. FWIW