Published by The Daily Telegraph (18th March, 2021) Boris Johnson’s landmark foreign policy review, published on Tuesday, revealed the extent of his seismic blunder on aid spending. Four […]
Africa / Rwanda
The dictator who fooled us
Published by UnHerd (23rd February, 2021) Paul Rusesabagina was a humble hotel manager when he became a hero amid the horrors of genocide, saving 1,268 people from machete-wielding […]
Politics
Theresa May is in no position to lecture on moral leadership
Published by The Times (21st January, 2021) There is a maxim in politics that leaders are defined as much by their successors as by their own triumphs and […]
Aid / China / World
Sickening aid bungs to China’s repellent dictators must end
Published by The Daily Mail (25th November, 2020) You have probably never heard of Zhou Qiang but he is one of the key Communist Party leaders in China […]
Aid
Time to ditch white saviour complex
Published by The i paper (23rd November, 2020) The Government’s debt, inflamed by frantic efforts to fight the impact of the pandemic, has soared to unprecedented peacetime levels. […]
Aid
Moneybags Miliband gets his mates megabucks too
Published by The Mail on Sunday (15th November, 2020) Former Labour Minister David Miliband’s charity has hired several of his close political aides for senior positions on hefty salaries. […]
Aid / Technology
BBC must follow it own rules and axe Comic Relief
Published by The Times (2nd November, 2020) Since inheriting the thorny BBC crown, Tim Davie has made it his mission as director-general to reassert the organisation’s impartiality after […]
Aid
Moneybags Miliband
Published by The Mail on Sunday (1st November, 2020) David Miliband was handed an annual pay package of more than $1 million (£772,000) last year by an aid charity […]
Aid / Politics
Good riddance to the self-serving Department for International Narcissists
Published by The Daily Mail (June 17th, 2020) One of Tony Blair’s first actions in government after winning the 1997 election was to weaken British diplomacy by spinning […]
Aid
Foreign aid fund is lining the pockets of the corrupt elite
Published by The Times (20th February, 2020) Perhaps the most famous quote on foreign aid came from Peter Bauer, a brilliant British development economist who challenged the conventional […]
Aid
War crime victims let down by the bloated aid system
Published by The Times (9th January, 2020) The issue was clear, the intentions noble, the promises bold. The coming together in common cause of politicians, charities and celebrities […]
Aid / Politics
Your cash is still funding despotic regimes in China and North Korea
Published by The Mail on Sunday (22nd December, 2019) The Foreign Office has been condemned by senior MPs and human rights groups for continuing to use aid money intended […]