The View from Cullingworth

Cullingworth nestles in Yorkshire's wonderful South Pennines where I once was the local councillor. These are my views - on politics, food, beer and the stupidity of those who want to tell me what to think or do. And a little on mushrooms.

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Tuesday, 20 December 2016

A truth about international aid

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This was posted by a Tanzanian in response to a Guardian editorial extolling the virtues of international aid. It tells its own story. ...

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Monday, 20 April 2015

A reminder why we have an international aid budget

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**** I get the anger at there being cuts at home while the budget for international aid has been protected. And, for the record, I don...

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Friday, 5 December 2014

On international aid...

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**** I wrote this a while ago - still stands and is relevent as we debate whether to set an arbitrary requirement that we spend 0.7% of GD...

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Tuesday, 3 September 2013

Why Philip Davies is right about international aid...

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**** Although he won't thank me for it! If we stopped every single penny of government spending on aid (by which we mean our money g...

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Saturday, 4 May 2013

Subsistence farming isn't the solution to world poverty - mostly it's the cause

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**** Yet that is precisely what the "Live Below the Line" campaign would have us believe - that rich kids in the UK showing off...

Saturday, 20 April 2013

Real international aid...

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**** We are supposed to pat ourselves on the back because we're handing over £11 billion or thereabouts in aid to needy countries. Muc...

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