Published by The Mail on Sunday (February 18th, 2018) How the mighty fall. For decades, the self-appointed saints of our secular age bestrode the world, preaching happily to […]
Aid / Haiti / World
Haiti earthquake survivors told: if you want aid, pay or sleep with us
Published by The Mail on Sunday (7th March, 2018) A British-funded charity supported by Meghan Markle has admitted its workers traded food and cash for sex with survivors of […]
Aid / Politics
Britain’s foreign aid budget is indefensible
Published by The Times (January 16th, 2018) Poor old Penny Mordaunt. She makes the cabinet after eight years in parliament only to be handed the poisoned chalice of […]
Africa / Aid / General
UK aid bankrolls fixer to make profits for Chinese businesses in Africa
Published by The Mail on Sunday (17th December, 2017) Britain is handing aid to an organisation headed by a wealthy Chinese-born businesswoman who seeks to help Chinese manufacturers […]
Aid
Patronising aid policy that fuels corruption
Published by The Mail on Sunday (24th September, 2017) The good news is that Westminster accepts there is a problem with fat-cat poverty barons – even if it […]
Aid / Politics
Patel’s pitiful bid to defend waste and corruption
Published by The Mail on Sunday (25th June, 2017) Earlier this month I found myself sitting in an impressive Whitehall office being grilled by officials at the aid […]
Aid / Politics
Rethink foreign aid, Mrs May
Published by The Mail on Sunday (23rd April, 2017) Aid for despots and dictators. Aid for rich nations with their own aid agencies and others able to afford […]
Aid / Economics
How rich: Gates lecturing other people on taxes
Published by The Daily Mail (21st April, 2017) Scarcely had the starting gun for Britain’s election battle been fired when technology guru Bill Gates waded in with a doom-laden […]
Aid / Politics
MPs can’t afford to ignore the millions we waste on aid
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 […]
Africa / Aid / Technology
Who’s laughing now? The BBC should not promote aid
Published by CapX (24th March, 2017) So here we go again: Red Nose Day has arrived with japes, high jinks and silly stunts taking place across the land. […]
Africa / Aid / Kenya
Vultures of the famine
Published by The Mail on Sunday (19th March, 2017) Emmanuel Ayapar is three years old and can no longer walk. The flesh on his legs, which dangle from […]