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Nathalie Rothschild
The unhealthy obsession with Africans’ sex lives
The panic about footie fans getting HIV in South Africa exposes the moral colonialism of AIDS campaigning.
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| Tuesday 13 July 2010 |
Nathalie Rothschild
Live Aid 25 years on – time to change the record
Bob Geldof’s charitable venture ushered in an era in which Africa once more appeared as the white man’s burden.
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| Tuesday 29 June 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
Africans: such childlike, spirited footie fans!
The idea that all Africans have a ‘rainbow continent’ duty to support Ghana in the World Cup is patronising guff.
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| Monday 14 June 2010 |
Tara McCormack
Welcome to Amnesty’s black-and-white world
The human rights group has a naive faith in ‘international justice’ and a simplistic view of high-profile conflicts.
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| Wednesday 7 April 2010 |
Nathalie Rothschild
‘No, I am the true saviour of the world!’
The clash between Bob Geldof and Make Poverty History is an unsavoury battle of ‘Africa-saving’ egos.
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| Wednesday 24 March 2010 |
Nathalie Rothschild
Dam these patronising Western campaigns
The environmentalists fighting to stop the construction of a huge dam in Ethiopia must have no regard for human life.
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| Thursday 18 March 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
Stop this illicit trade in bullshit stories
Apparently 40,000 ‘hookers’ will be trafficked to South Africa for the World Cup. Where have we heard that story before?
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| Tuesday 9 March 2010 |
Nathalie Rothschild
Live Aid: the White Pop Star’s Burden
The BBC’s critique of Live Aid replaces the view of Africans as victims with a view of them as corrupt.
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| Friday 5 March 2010 |
Philip Hammond
Darfur: every celeb’s favourite African war
A new book reveals how celebrities’ and human rights activists’ simple-minded moral posturing on Darfur made the conflict even worse.
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| Tuesday 12 January 2010 |
Tim Black
The White Sports Writers’ Burden
The gun attack on the Togo football team has unleashed a torrent of fearmongering about the ‘Dark Continent’.
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| Wednesday 9 September 2009 |
Mick Hume
Brown and out in
London and Libya
The Libyan debacle has sunk Labour to depths of absurdity and impotence that even some of us Brown-haters find hard to comprehend.
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| Thursday 3 September 2009 |
Brendan O’Neill
This was a cock-up, not a conspiracy
The real story of the Megrahi affair is not the duplicity of the British government, but its utter cluelessness.
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| Tuesday 25 August 2009 |
Mick Hume
Now it’s the ‘special needs’ relationship
The furore over the release of al-Megrahi shows how the US-UK alliance has lost its sheen since the joint crusade against Libya in the 1980s.
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| Wednesday 5 August 2009 |
Patrick Hayes
Sorry, but Fairtrade is a political issue
BBC newsreader George Alagiah is shocked that his bosses think Fairtrade is ‘somehow controversial’. It is.
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| Thursday 23 July 2009 |
Nathalie Rothschild
This invention really does suck
The LifeStraw allows Africans safely to drink filthy water. Is it the most degrading gadget ever invented?
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| Thursday 14 May 2009 |
Nathalie Rothschild
Mia Farrow: dieting for the cause
A narcissistic ‘hunger strike’ for Darfur is getting far more attention than protests without celebrity endorsement.
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| Thursday 12 March 2009 |
Philip Hammond
Indicting Bashir won’t bring peace or justice
Predictably, the ICC’s arrest warrant for Sudan’s president has created a backlash against aid workers and crippled hopes of an end to war.
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| Monday 22 December 2008 |
Nathalie Rothschild
These gifts are degrading to people, not animals
Animal Aid has attacked the nauseating fashion for sending goats and dung to Africans at Christmas - but for all the wrong reasons.
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| Friday 7 November 2008 |
Philip Hammond
Darfur: the dangers of celebrity imperialism
Sending Blackwater to Sudan? The eccentric war-hungry activists of the Save Darfur lobby have taken leave of their senses.
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| Monday 3 November 2008 |
Brendan O’Neill
Congo: pornography for misanthropes
Holocaust-hunters and rape-trawlers have besieged the Congo, where they ‘eat dead babies’, in search of the germ of human evil.
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