Published by The Daily Mail (15th April 2016) Britain’s foreign aid budget keeps rising. Currently at £12 billion a year, it is due to soar during David Cameron’s two […]
Africa / Aid / Ethiopia
We train forces who kidnapped Ethiopia’s ‘Mandela’
Published by The Mail on Sunday (10th April, 2016) Britain is giving more than a million pounds to train Ethiopia’s security forces – even though the country’s repressive […]
Aid
Poverty barons cash in on British aid boom
Published by The Mail on Sunday (10th April, 2015) Private firms handing out British aid in the poorest parts of the world are driving up profits, pay and […]
Aid / Israel, West Bank & Gaza / World
Cash for terror: how the Palestinian Authority duped British backers
Published by The Jewish Chronicle (31st March, 2016) Ahmad Musa looks like a character in a gangster movie with his black leather jacket, slicked back hair and self-possessed […]
Aid / Europe / European Union / Israel, West Bank & Gaza / World
How British aid ends up funding terrorists
Published by The Mail on Sunday (27th March, 2015) Ahmad Musa sits beside me, a convicted double murderer sentenced to life in prison. As we talk, I ask […]
Africa / Aid
Spare us the toe-curling stunts of celebrities on foreign aid ego trips
Published by The Daily Mail (30th December, 2015) Perhaps actor Michael Sheen has spent too much time playing Tony Blair. For he seems to have developed similar disdain […]
Aid / Environment / Policy
Why is Britain spending millions on flood aid abroad?
Published by The Daily Mail (9th December, 2015) The human drama being played out in Cumbria this week could hardly be more heartbreaking. Christmas trees, their baubles askew, lie […]
Aid
A daft giveaway that feeds corruption
Published by The Mail on Sunday (29th November, 2015) Every day, the British aid splurge becomes more absurd. Despite austerity at home, the sums donated abroad will double […]