Aid

What’s the point of foreign aid?

7 March 2025 4:30 pm

The UK signed up to a UN target of spending 0.7 per cent of GNP on aid way back in…

Barometer

23 September 2023 9:00 am

Within limits Do 20mph speed limits save lives? – A 2018 report by Atkins/AECOM/UCL found that 51% of motorists conformed…

The Spectator's Notes

9 September 2023 9:00 am

Ukraine’s real killing fields

26 August 2023 9:00 am

An investigation into the war’s first aid crisis

A sting in the tale

6 June 2020 9:00 am

Did the US secretly write a power ballad in order to bring down the Soviet Union? That’s the question behind…

The British see Africa only in terms of aid but there are business opportunities aplenty

9 February 2019 9:00 am

Kenya   As the Union Flag was lowered during Kenya’s Uhuru ceremony in 1963, the Duke of Edinburgh turned to…

Just giving

4 July 2015 9:00 am

Seven years ago I wrote here about a site called Kiva.org. I had met the co-founder of this charity when…