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Africa / Aid / Covid19 / Nigeria

Aid charities miss the point with call for free Covid jabs

Published by The Times (10th December, 2020) Amid the joy at seeing the first elderly Britons inoculated against Covid-19, a group called the People’s Vaccine Alliance popped up […]

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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 […]

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Aid / Haiti / World

A grotesque corruption of compassion

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 […]

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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 […]

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Africa / Aid / Europe / Immigration / Policy / Politics

No minister – our billions in foreign aid make it more likely migrants come here

Published by The Daily Mail (11th August, 2015) With every passing day, it becomes harder to have confidence in the Government’s flailing response to the tide of humanity […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Africa / Aid / Liberia

The aid industry endorses human rights abuses, fuels corruption and missed the Ebola crisis

Published by The Independent (3rd November, 2014) First came a report revealing terrible human rights abuses from a repressive regime backed by huge sums of British aid. A […]

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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, […]

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Africa / Aid / General

Aid groups have blinded Britain to the realities of Africa

Published in The Independent (January 9th, 2013) Recep Erdogan, the astute prime minister of Turkey, is on a tour of Africa. His entourage includes 300 business leaders from […]

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Africa / Aid / Kenya / Politics

Snouts in the aid trough

First published in The Daily Mail (September 18th, 2012) Three miles from the centre of Nairobi, the bustling capital of Kenya, is a huge, sprawling district called Kibera. […]

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Aid

The aid business has grown fat. It’s time there was proper scrutiny

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 […]

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Ian Birrell is an award-winning columnist, foreign correspondent, feature writer and investigative journalist. He is contributing editor of The Mail on Sunday, a weekly columnist in The i Paper and writes frequently for other papers and platforms. He is also co-founder with Damon Albarn of Africa Express, the acclaimed collaborative music project. (Pictured: Talking to refugees in Iraq fleeing Islamic State)... Read More.

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