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 […]
Aid
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 Budget speech for a long time. Philip Hammond, admitting […]
Africa / Aid / Ghana
The charity guru who duped the world
Published by UnHerd (24 October, 2018) It is hard to think of a more famous global academic than Jeffrey Sachs. He advises the United Nations, collaborates with presidents, […]
Aid
How politicians failed to learn from the charity sex abuse scandal
Published by The Spectator (19th October, 2018) When Tamsyn Barton was summoned before MPs last month to be quizzed on her suitability to run the official aid watchdog, […]
Africa / Aid / Ghana
Proof that foreign aid does not work
Published by The Mail on Sunday (14th October, 2018) As I drove through villages in northern Ghana, bumping along pitted dirt roads and passing mud-splattered men pushing bicycles, […]
Africa / Aid / Politics
May’s view of Africa is blinkered and damaging
Published by The Times (29th August, 2018) Theresa May is making her first visit to Africa since entering Downing Street more than two years ago — and the […]
Africa / Aid / Rwanda
Deal is an own goal
Published by The Sun (11th June, 2018) Paul Kagame is one of the world’s most ruthless dictators. He runs a nasty one-party state in Rwanda that crushes dissent […]
Africa / Aid / South Sudan / Uganda
The foreign aid ghost camps
Published by The Mail on Sunday (3rd June, 2018) When United Nations chief Antonio Guterres begged the world to help Uganda deal with ‘the biggest refugee exodus in Africa […]
Africa / Aid / Rwanda
Deal that makes a mockery of fair play
Published by The Mail on Sunday (27th May, 2018) After a decade writing about the aid industry, I thought I had seen it all with the daft projects, […]
Aid
British aid keeps on funding repellent regimes
Published by The Times (3rd April, 2018) Politicians of all persuasions love aid. It allows them to pose as protectors of the poor and saviours of the world, […]
Aid
Bono should change his tune
Published by The ipaper (12th March, 2018) Sunday, bloody Sunday. The Irish pop star Bono must have woken yesterday and thought: ‘I can’t believe the news today.’ He […]