Africa: Welcome to the Global War On Aid to People in Need of Assistance

opinion

If you've been working in a UK-based aid organisation over the past few years, you might have noticed a new risk appearing in your logframe: what if the Daily Mail goes after my project?

Despite being unelected, unaccountable and uninformed about the aid industry, the Daily Mail (and its sibling Mail on Sunday) loves to attack anything that looks like poor people getting hold of UK taxpayers' money. It doesn't matter who those poor people are - the Mail is an equal opportunity Scrooge, willing to snatch coins from the hand of anybody it doesn't like the look of.

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