Published by The Mail on Sunday (22nd January, 2017) More than two-thirds of £25.4 million spent on a foreign aid scheme to install wells, water pumps and irrigation […]
Europe / Policy / World
Nativism is the new world order
Published by The i paper (16th January, 2017) It is hard to think of a more miserable life than that currently endured by Yacub, a 16-year-old Afghan I […]
Europe / Immigration / Policy / Serbia
The railway children
Published by The Mail on Sunday (15th January, 2017) The snow lay a foot deep as I slid my way alongside railway tracks, covering the nearby piles of […]
Politics
So much to do beyond Brexit
Published by The ipaper (9th January, 2017) It is strange that Theresa May’s honeymoon period has lasted so long, given her abrupt ascent to power and the deep […]
Politics / Technology
A tyrant’s charter
Published by The Mail on Sunday (8th January, 2017) Journalism can be a dangerous job. In many places on our planet, rich and powerful people dislike anyone investigating […]
Iraq / Syria / World
The face of raw courage
Published by The Mail on Sunday (8th January, 2017) She stood defiant in the dock. Blood poured from her mouth and nose, while her body was covered with […]
Europe / Russia
Theresa May must make a lonely stand against Putin
Published by The ipaper (2nd January, 2017) Thirty months ago I stood in a cornfield amid rolling hills of eastern Ukraine, surrounded by shattered human bodies. Men, women, […]
Aid
The fattest charity fat cat of them all
Published by The Mail on Sunday (1st January, 2017) A foreign aid ‘fat cat’ has made millions out of the cash handed to his charity by the British […]
Africa / Arts / Books
A truly monstrous regiment
Published by The Spectator (31st December, 2016) When The Walking Defeats You: One Man’s Journey as Joseph Kony’s Bodyguard by Ledio Cakaj (Zed) When George Omona first saw […]
Aid
Stop the great aid giveaway
Published by The Sun (20th December, 2016) EVERY day there seems to be a new scandal involving Britain’s booming aid budget. Yesterday there were stories of £5.2million to […]
Aid / Politics
Patel takes on foreign aid fat cats
Published by The i paper (19th December, 2016) It is fair to assume few cheers were heard in the Department for International Development (Dfid) corridors when officials learned […]
Aid / Politics
The great foreign aid freeze
Published by The Mail on Sunday (18th December, 2016) The Government has dramatically halted new contracts with British foreign aid contractors after The Mail on Sunday exposed dirty […]