A long, dark shadow
Published by The Spectator (18th June, 2022) Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of... Read Full Article
Haiti
Global thinker in a world filled with narrow-minded nationalism
Published by UnHerd (23rd February, 2018) I first came across the work of the development economist Michael Clemens when I... Read Full Article
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... Read Full Article
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... Read Full Article
Poison Penn
Published by The Daily Mail (12th January, 2016) The gangsters had a problem. Their Sinaloa cartel was killing so many... Read Full Article
Our shameful response to the ebola crisis
Published by The Independent (20th October, 2014) I relaxed again this weekend. It was 21 days since I returned from... Read Full Article
Aid corporations dressed in clothing of compassion
Published in The Guardian (8th July, 2014) The president of South Sudan warns that his nation faces terrible famine, with... Read Full Article
When the future is another country
Published in The Observer (November 17th, 2013) Exodus: Immigration and Multiculturalism in the 21st Century by Paul Collier (OUP) The... Read Full Article
Too often incompetent, self-serving aid agencies make matters worse
Published in the Daily Mail (November 16th, 2013) The stories are heartbreaking. Families have been ripped apart, houses flattened and... Read Full Article
In Haiti the UN’s behaviour is far cry from being conscience of the world
Publish in The Guardian (March 4th, 2013) Imagine if a multinational company went to one of the world’s most impoverished... Read Full Article