Published by The Times (29th March, 2017) Can you guess the big problem with Britain’s aid spending? It is not the appalling waste, the insidious corruption, the persistent […]
Africa / Aid / Technology
Who’s laughing now? The BBC should not promote aid
Published by CapX (24th March, 2017) So here we go again: Red Nose Day has arrived with japes, high jinks and silly stunts taking place across the land. […]
Africa / Aid / Kenya
Vultures of the famine
Published by The Mail on Sunday (19th March, 2017) Emmanuel Ayapar is three years old and can no longer walk. The flesh on his legs, which dangle from […]
Aid / Europe / European Union / Israel, West Bank & Gaza / World
A disturbing new low for foreign aid
Published by The Mail on Sunday (12th March, 2017) Britain is pumping huge sums of foreign aid into Palestinian schools named after mass murderers and Islamist militants, which openly […]
Aid
The 5-star rip-off
Published by The Mail on Sunday (5th March, 2017) Bureaucrats handing out British aid have spent an astonishing £15 million flying themselves around the world and staying in […]
Aid
Stunning victory as four fat cats quit over dirty tricks
Published by The Mail on Sunday (5th March, 2017) Four senior executives at Britain’s biggest specialist foreign aid contractor have quit after explosive disclosures in The Mail on […]
Africa / Aid / South Sudan
Western aid has enabled South Sudan’s kleptocrats
Published by CapX (24th February, 2017) Fine words flowed at birth of the world’s newest nation six years ago. Britain spoke of ‘a moment of hope and optimism […]
Africa / Aid / Disability / Health / Policy / Rwanda / South Sudan / Technology
Print your own body parts
Published by Mosaic Science, The Observer & The Atlantic (19th February, 2017) John Nhial was barely a teenager when he was grabbed by a Sudanese guerrilla army and […]
Aid / Politics
Behind the fine words, corruption festers
Published by The Mail on Sunday (12th February, 2017) So now it is official: Adam Smith International, Britain’s biggest specialist aid contractor, engaged in dirty tricks to dupe […]
Africa / Aid / Zambia
Revealed: foreign aid fat cats soak up £17m in fees – on £25m pump project
Published by The Mail on Sunday (22nd January, 2017) More than two-thirds of £25.4 million spent on a foreign aid scheme to install wells, water pumps and irrigation […]
Aid
The fattest charity fat cat of them all
Published by The Mail on Sunday (1st January, 2017) A foreign aid ‘fat cat’ has made millions out of the cash handed to his charity by the British […]
Aid
Stop the great aid giveaway
Published by The Sun (20th December, 2016) EVERY day there seems to be a new scandal involving Britain’s booming aid budget. Yesterday there were stories of £5.2million to […]