Published by The Daily Mail (28th February 2019) For little more than a decade Stacey Dooley has made all the right steps, moving effortlessly from flogging make-up at […]
Aid / Politics
Don’t tinker with the foreign aid target – just bin it
Published by The Sun (12th February, 2019) THE Tories are in a pickle – and not just on Brexit. They tried to cloak themselves in compassion by chucking […]
Africa / Aid / Kenya
Boss of fraud scandal charity bankrolled by £132million in British aid sent ‘witch porn’ to female worker
Published by The Mail on Sunday (27th January, 2019) A major UK charity has failed to remove from office a senior director accused of bullying whistleblowers, corruption and […]
Africa / Aid / Ethiopia / Immigration / Policy
Ethiopia is right to liberate refugees from hellish camps
Published by The Times (22nd January, 2019) More than 25 million people are refugees, forced to flee their homelands by conflict, drought or disaster. For all the hysterical […]
Africa / Aid / Uganda
Ugandan elite dipped into UK aid cash
Published by The Mail on Sunday (December 2nd, 2018) Tens of millions of pounds donated by British taxpayers and other countries to help refugees in Uganda have vanished into […]
Aid / Disability
How charities are corrupted by Whitehall
Published by UnHerd (30th November, 2018) The National Health Service has been ordered to start looking into the deaths of patients in mental health units to learn from […]
Aid
Some ‘little extras’ for despots and dictators, a lot less for the rest of us
Published by The Daily Mail (31st October, 2018) Frankly, it was one of the most patronising lines heard in a Budget speech for a long time. Philip Hammond, admitting […]
Africa / Aid / Ghana
The charity guru who duped the world
Published by UnHerd (24 October, 2018) It is hard to think of a more famous global academic than Jeffrey Sachs. He advises the United Nations, collaborates with presidents, […]
Aid
How politicians failed to learn from the charity sex abuse scandal
Published by The Spectator (19th October, 2018) When Tamsyn Barton was summoned before MPs last month to be quizzed on her suitability to run the official aid watchdog, […]
Africa / Aid / Ghana
Proof that foreign aid does not work
Published by The Mail on Sunday (14th October, 2018) As I drove through villages in northern Ghana, bumping along pitted dirt roads and passing mud-splattered men pushing bicycles, […]
Aid / Economics
Save us from these self-appointed saviours
Published by The i paper (17th September, 2018) There can be no doubt Jeff Bezos is an extremely impressive business operator. He has turned a website selling books […]