Published by UnHerd (5th January, 2024) Bondo is a scattered cluster of villages in a remote region of Malawi near the border with Mozambique. It sits in the […]
Africa / Covid19
The lockdown conundrum
Published by The i paper (12th October, 2020) As the nights darken, coronavirus cases surge and job losses soar, the debate over how best to respond to this […]
Africa / Covid19 / Uganda
Africa’s catastrophic Covid response
Published by UnHerd (11th September, 2020) As Covid-19 began to sweep across the planet earlier this year, the warnings about the disease’s impact on Africa were terrifying. The […]
Africa / Aid
Wasteful and misguided: what the new aid minister really thinks about the £14bn we send abroad each year
Published by The Mail on Sunday (12th May, 2019) The new International Development Secretary has admitted that ‘not a great deal has been achieved’ with foreign aid, The Mail […]
Aid
Some ‘little extras’ for despots and dictators, a lot less for the rest of us
Published by The Daily Mail (31st October, 2018) Frankly, it was one of the most patronising lines heard in a Budget speech for a long time. Philip Hammond, admitting […]
Africa / Aid
Spare us the toe-curling stunts of celebrities on foreign aid ego trips
Published by The Daily Mail (30th December, 2015) Perhaps actor Michael Sheen has spent too much time playing Tony Blair. For he seems to have developed similar disdain […]
Africa / Congo
Virunga is saved but Africa’s wildlife is being encircled sliver by sliver
Published by The Guardian (13th June, 2014) It seems incredible anyone could contemplate drilling for oil in Virunga. Not only is this sprawling national park the oldest in […]
Africa / Ethiopia / Technology
Support journalists, not countries that jail them
Published in The Guardian (August 5th, 2013) ‘I am jailed, with around 200 other inmates, in a wide hall that looks like a warehouse. For all of us, […]
Aid / Politics
Corrupt, ineffective and hypocritical: Britain should give less aid, not more
Published in The Independent (May 2nd, 2013) When Jacob Zuma, the president of South Africa, decided to give his family house in Nkandla a makeover, he did so […]