The African village mining Bitcoin
Published by UnHerd (5th January, 2024) Bondo is a scattered cluster of villages in a remote region of Malawi near... Read Full Article
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The lockdown conundrum
Published by The i paper (12th October, 2020) As the nights darken, coronavirus cases surge and job losses soar, the... Read Full Article
Africa’s catastrophic Covid response
Published by UnHerd (11th September, 2020) As Covid-19 began to sweep across the planet earlier this year, the warnings about... Read Full Article
Wasteful and misguided: what the new aid minister really thinks about the £14bn we send abroad each year
Published by The Mail on Sunday (12th May, 2019) The new International Development Secretary has admitted that ‘not a great... Read Full Article
Some ‘little extras’ for despots and dictators, a lot less for the rest of us
Published by The Daily Mail (31st October, 2018) Frankly, it was one of the most patronising lines heard in a... Read Full Article
Spare us the toe-curling stunts of celebrities on foreign aid ego trips
Published by The Daily Mail (30th December, 2015) Perhaps actor Michael Sheen has spent too much time playing Tony Blair.... Read Full Article
Virunga is saved but Africa’s wildlife is being encircled sliver by sliver
Published by The Guardian (13th June, 2014) It seems incredible anyone could contemplate drilling for oil in Virunga. Not only... Read Full Article
Support journalists, not countries that jail them
Published in The Guardian (August 5th, 2013) ‘I am jailed, with around 200 other inmates, in a wide hall that... Read Full Article
Corrupt, ineffective and hypocritical: Britain should give less aid, not more
Published in The Independent (May 2nd, 2013) When Jacob Zuma, the president of South Africa, decided to give his family... Read Full Article