Natural disaster, man-made hell
Published in The World Today (February 8th, 2013) The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save... Read Full Article
Haiti
Disastrous relief for Haiti
Published in The Guardian (December 31st, 2012) Almost three years ago, Haiti was hit by an earthquake that killed an estimated... Read Full Article
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... Read Full Article
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... Read Full Article
The scandal of orphanages in tourist resorts and disaster zones that rent children to fleece gullible Westerners
Published in The Mail on Sunday (April 10th, 2011) As a child welfare expert who has worked amid bullets and... Read Full Article
Western aid now does more harm than good
Published in the London Evening Standard (March 1st, 2011) As Harry Truman’s team prepared his inaugural presidential address in late... Read Full Article
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... Read Full Article
Throw open our doors to Haitians
Published in The Independent (January 28th, 2010) Two weeks on, and they are still pulling people from the living hell... Read Full Article
Death, disaster and a shocking reality
Published in The Independent (January 16th, 2010) Around the world, presidents and prime ministers mouth platitudes about sharing the pain... Read Full Article