Published by The Mail on Sunday (10th October, 2021) David Miliband has brushed aside outrage from MPs over his seven-figure salary to collect another big pay rise from an […]
Aid
Behind the panda logo sits a charity that lost its way
Published by The Times (3rd September, 2021) Can there be a more cuddly brand than the World Wide Fund for Nature, a charity committed to conservation and saving […]
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 / 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 […]
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
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 […]
Aid / Haiti / World
Haiti and the shaming of the aid zealots
Published in the Daily Mail (January 27th, 2011) The first thing that strikes you is the smell: a sweet, sickly stench that sticks to your skin. It is […]
Aid / Haiti / World
One year on, Haiti is still in the grip of despair and chaos. And the huge aid effort you funded is to blame
Published in the Daily Mail (January 13th, 2011) The rows of tents seem to stretch on for ever, a symbol of Haiti’s hopelessness. Each one has been home […]
Aid
Before you pay to volunteer abroad, think of the harm you might do
Published in The Observer (November 14th, 2010) By 10pm, the aptly named Bar Street is pulsating with tourists drawn to Siem Reap by the famous Cambodian ruins of […]