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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Aid / Politics
Patel takes on foreign aid fat cats
Published by The i paper (19th December, 2016) It is fair to assume few cheers were heard in the Department for International Development (Dfid) corridors when officials learned […]
Aid / Politics
The great foreign aid freeze
Published by The Mail on Sunday (18th December, 2016) The Government has dramatically halted new contracts with British foreign aid contractors after The Mail on Sunday exposed dirty […]
Aid
The begging bowl barons
Published by The Mail on Sunday (18th December, 2016) Bosses of charities handed millions in British foreign aid to fight poverty in poor nations are creaming off huge […]
Aid / Politics
Stop this sick corruption of compassion
Published by The Mail on Sunday (11th December, 2016) Like many people of my generation, influenced by the begging bowl concerts of Live Aid, I wanted to believe […]
Afghanistan / Aid / World
High salaries, bonuses and suspect cash withdrawals
Published by The Mail on Sunday (11th December, 2016) It all sounds so positive on Adam Smith International’s website: an example of the way in which the aid […]