Published by The Times (29th August, 2018) Theresa May is making her first visit to Africa since entering Downing Street more than two years ago — and the […]
Aid / Disability
The Tories push disability rights abroad while ignoring them at home
Published by The i paper (23rd July, 2018) Although the post of development secretary is one of the easiest in the Cabinet, involving posing as a saviour of […]
Africa / Aid / Rwanda
Deal is an own goal
Published by The Sun (11th June, 2018) Paul Kagame is one of the world’s most ruthless dictators. He runs a nasty one-party state in Rwanda that crushes dissent […]
Africa / Aid / South Sudan / Uganda
The foreign aid ghost camps
Published by The Mail on Sunday (3rd June, 2018) When United Nations chief Antonio Guterres begged the world to help Uganda deal with ‘the biggest refugee exodus in Africa […]
Africa / Aid / Rwanda
Deal that makes a mockery of fair play
Published by The Mail on Sunday (27th May, 2018) After a decade writing about the aid industry, I thought I had seen it all with the daft projects, […]
Aid
British aid keeps on funding repellent regimes
Published by The Times (3rd April, 2018) Politicians of all persuasions love aid. It allows them to pose as protectors of the poor and saviours of the world, […]
Aid
Bono should change his tune
Published by The ipaper (12th March, 2018) Sunday, bloody Sunday. The Irish pop star Bono must have woken yesterday and thought: ‘I can’t believe the news today.’ He […]
Africa / Aid / South Africa
Shame of Bono’s charity bullies
Published by The Mail on Sunday (11th March, 2018) Workers at an organisation founded by U2 singer Bono have been subjected to a ‘toxic’ culture of bullying and […]
Aid / Technology
Another abuse of power
Published by The i paper (26th February, 2018) I am a big fan of the BBC. Yes, it can be its own worst enemy, while the licence fee […]
Aid
Scandal underpinned by cosy network of the arrogant and ambitious
Published by The Mail on Sunday (25th February, 2018) When Kevin Watkins celebrated his 60th birthday four years ago, he was joined by the aid industry elite. Guests […]
Aid / Economics
Global thinker in a world filled with narrow-minded nationalism
Published by UnHerd (23rd February, 2018) I first came across the work of the development economist Michael Clemens when I began to investigate the aid industry almost a […]
Aid / Haiti / World
A grotesque corruption of compassion
Published by The Mail on Sunday (February 18th, 2018) How the mighty fall. For decades, the self-appointed saints of our secular age bestrode the world, preaching happily to […]