Published in The Spectator (February 18th, 2012) Such a simple question: should Oxfam spend a couple of hundred pounds a month opening up the swimming pool at its […]
Aid / Haiti / World
Haiti and the shaming of the aid zealots
Published in the Daily Mail (January 27th, 2011) The first thing that strikes you is the smell: a sweet, sickly stench that sticks to your skin. It is […]
Aid
The scandal of orphanages in tourist resorts and disaster zones that rent children to fleece gullible Westerners
Published in The Mail on Sunday (April 10th, 2011) As a child welfare expert who has worked amid bullets and bombs in some of the world’s toughest war […]
Aid
Western aid now does more harm than good
Published in the London Evening Standard (March 1st, 2011) As Harry Truman’s team prepared his inaugural presidential address in late 1948, there was concern that the section on […]
Aid / Haiti / World
One year on, Haiti is still in the grip of despair and chaos. And the huge aid effort you funded is to blame
Published in the Daily Mail (January 13th, 2011) The rows of tents seem to stretch on for ever, a symbol of Haiti’s hopelessness. Each one has been home […]
Haiti / World
Throw open our doors to Haitians
Published in The Independent (January 28th, 2010) Two weeks on, and they are still pulling people from the living hell of entombment in the rubble of Port-au-Prince. Each […]
Aid / Haiti
Death, disaster and a shocking reality
Published in The Independent (January 16th, 2010) Around the world, presidents and prime ministers mouth platitudes about sharing the pain of Haiti. But they should consider a simple […]