Published by The Times (2nd November, 2020) Since inheriting the thorny BBC crown, Tim Davie has made it his mission as director-general to reassert the organisation’s impartiality after […]
Aid
Moneybags Miliband
Published by The Mail on Sunday (1st November, 2020) David Miliband was handed an annual pay package of more than $1 million (£772,000) last year by an aid charity […]
Aid / Disability
Fat cat charities have forgotten their principles
Published by The Times (26th June, 2020) Another day, another scandal involving a big charity. This time it is the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), whose […]
Aid / Politics
Good riddance to the self-serving Department for International Narcissists
Published by The Daily Mail (June 17th, 2020) One of Tony Blair’s first actions in government after winning the 1997 election was to weaken British diplomacy by spinning […]
Aid
Foreign aid fund is lining the pockets of the corrupt elite
Published by The Times (20th February, 2020) Perhaps the most famous quote on foreign aid came from Peter Bauer, a brilliant British development economist who challenged the conventional […]
Aid
War crime victims let down by the bloated aid system
Published by The Times (9th January, 2020) The issue was clear, the intentions noble, the promises bold. The coming together in common cause of politicians, charities and celebrities […]
Aid / Politics
Your cash is still funding despotic regimes in China and North Korea
Published by The Mail on Sunday (22nd December, 2019) The Foreign Office has been condemned by senior MPs and human rights groups for continuing to use aid money intended […]
Aid / Politics
An aid to better spending
Published by The Times (12th December, 2019) Even Boris Johnson’s critics would agree that on the subject of international aid he has been clear and consistent. The prime […]
Africa / Aid / Ethiopia
A light shining through darkness
Published by The i paper (14th October, 2019) History is a harsher judge than people appointed by Norway’s parliament, but there have been some terrible picks over 118 […]
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
UK charity given £132m in foreign aid ‘provided prostitutes for guests’ at functions
Published by The Mail on Sunday (19th May, 2019) A major British charity handed huge sums in foreign aid by the Government is alleged to have overseen the hiring […]