Africa

Politics: supporting the criminal gangs

December 23, 2024 2:42 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Stepping back from our own narrow interests, for a moment, my eye was caught yesterday by a piece in the... View Article

Net-zero: Africa, the new battleground

September 19, 2023 2:11 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

In a recent piece when I despaired about the violent state of Africa, I ruminated that short of re-colonising whole... View Article

Immigration: not enough interest

September 15, 2023 1:37 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

For all the high-octane coverage of Derna in the Guardian, even its readers don’t really care. All day yesterday, I... View Article

Africa: the wind of change stirs again

September 1, 2023 12:53 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Africa instability should concern the West, the Telegraph intones in yesterday’s editorial, telling us that “a series of coups” cannot... View Article

Africa: the invisible continent

May 31, 2023 2:17 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

One of the more irritating facets of the UK legacy media is its obsession with US politics but, as I... View Article

Sudan: one war at a time

April 27, 2023 3:02 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

It’s just as well that the Ukraine war is fairly quiet at the moment, otherwise the media might have difficulty... View Article

Immigration: a black day

December 2, 2022 3:56 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

One of the least important things in this world today is the supposed “trauma” of the black activist who currently... View Article

Politics: Two-Camels Amess

October 19, 2021 1:37 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Before his murder, David Amess was chairman of an all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on Qatar, its aim “to foster good... View Article

Foreign Aid: pissing into the wind

June 9, 2021 2:15 am Published by Pete North Post a Comment

Returning to the subject of foreign aid, as ever Twitter has managed to turn it into a wholly binary debate... View Article

Aid: bigger problems than we know how to handle

June 8, 2021 10:18 am Published by Pete North Post a Comment

I’ve written a lot about foreign aid and development, but looking back at some of it, I’m just as guilty... View Article

UK aid needs fundamental reform and a coherent mission

June 4, 2021 3:21 am Published by Pete North Post a Comment

Thirty Tory rebels, including former prime minister Theresa May, have now promised to back a bid to increase aid spending... View Article

It’s time to “recolonise” Africa

March 24, 2021 5:26 pm Published by Pete North Post a Comment

Following our departure form the EU, Britain has been in search of a new role internationally. We could do no... View Article

Asylum: Britain must not be blackmailed

September 2, 2020 2:42 am Published by Pete North Post a Comment

Around the web lately there are plenty of handwringing articles from the left about the use of language in the... View Article

Sunak must ignore the populists on foreign aid

September 1, 2020 2:18 am Published by Pete North Post a Comment

A site that has grabbed my attention lately is that of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. The organised... View Article

Trade: the death of the FTA

August 29, 2020 6:11 am Published by Pete North Post a Comment

Lately our focus on Turbulent Times has been international development. It’s not particularly topical or anything but it certainly will... View Article

Immigration: a malfunctioning debate

August 28, 2020 1:48 am Published by Pete North Post a Comment

There’s a weird malfunction in the immigration debate. The aid industrial complex asserts that we resolve the problem of dinghies... View Article