At the end of last October, David Callahan, editor of the Inside Philanthropyblog, posted his list of five scary trends in US philanthropy. They ranged from philanthropy’s influence on on public policy to questions of power relations between donors and grantees. Alliance philanthropy magazine ran with this question asking whether these trends apply elsewhere. In the piece, I share some thoughts on what to expect in the UK http://www.alliancemagazine.org/article/should-we-be-afraid/