Net-zero: Africa, the new battleground
September 19, 2023 2:11 am Post a CommentIn a recent piece when I despaired about the violent state of Africa, I ruminated that short of re-colonising whole... View Article
In a recent piece when I despaired about the violent state of Africa, I ruminated that short of re-colonising whole... View Article
For all the high-octane coverage of Derna in the Guardian, even its readers don’t really care. All day yesterday, I... View Article
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One of the more irritating facets of the UK legacy media is its obsession with US politics but, as I... View Article
It’s just as well that the Ukraine war is fairly quiet at the moment, otherwise the media might have difficulty... View Article
One of the least important things in this world today is the supposed “trauma” of the black activist who currently... View Article
Before his murder, David Amess was chairman of an all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on Qatar, its aim “to foster good... View Article
Returning to the subject of foreign aid, as ever Twitter has managed to turn it into a wholly binary debate... View Article
I’ve written a lot about foreign aid and development, but looking back at some of it, I’m just as guilty... View Article
Thirty Tory rebels, including former prime minister Theresa May, have now promised to back a bid to increase aid spending... View Article
Following our departure form the EU, Britain has been in search of a new role internationally. We could do no... View Article
Around the web lately there are plenty of handwringing articles from the left about the use of language in the... View Article
A site that has grabbed my attention lately is that of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. The organised... View Article
Lately our focus on Turbulent Times has been international development. It’s not particularly topical or anything but it certainly will... View Article
There’s a weird malfunction in the immigration debate. The aid industrial complex asserts that we resolve the problem of dinghies... View Article
Being the son of a notorious good safety advisor, in our household you couldn’t help but pick up a few... View Article