Published by The Sun (August 31st, 2022) Rory Stewart is an engaging fellow who admits he was never cut out for life as a politician. “It brings out […]
Aid / Politics
The million-dollar question: is David Miliband a gilt-edged hypocrite?
Published by The Daily Mail (October 1st, 2019) When David Miliband was running to succeed Gordon Brown as leader of the Labour Party in 2010, he savaged the […]
Aid
Million dollar Miliband
Published by The Mail on Sunday (29th September, 2019) Former Labour Foreign Secretary David Miliband is being paid almost $1 million a year to run a humanitarian charity that […]
Aid / Disability
How charities are corrupted by Whitehall
Published by UnHerd (30th November, 2018) The National Health Service has been ordered to start looking into the deaths of patients in mental health units to learn from […]
Aid
Scandal underpinned by cosy network of the arrogant and ambitious
Published by The Mail on Sunday (25th February, 2018) When Kevin Watkins celebrated his 60th birthday four years ago, he was joined by the aid industry elite. Guests […]
Aid / Economics
Oxfam’s attack on inequality might be more persuasive if its own bosses weren’t fat cats
Published by UnHerd (22nd January, 2018) It must be hard for a major player in the poverty industry when you see capitalism, consumerism, science and technology rapidly eroding […]
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 […]
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 […]
Economics
The bloated charity sector can’t always be trusted with your money
Published by The Daily Telegraph (16th July, 2015) Among current topics of debate in Kenya is whether the country should push through a proposed ban on imports of […]
Aid
A nauseating award for Blair and a bloated aid industry sucking up to its political paymasters
Published by The Daily Mail (27th November, 2014) A spectacular charity gala studded with celebrities, famous singers and Hollywood stars, it was just the sort of glittering event […]
Aid
Hideous hypocrisy of the charity fat cats
Published in The Daily Mail (August 7th, 2013) Our overseas aid charities work hard to persuade people to hand over their cash. Whether paying for commercials on television, […]