I used to work in the aid business. For about ten years. I loved it for most of that time. But I gradually lost faith with the basic premise; that aid and charity are anything like solutions to all the problems the big aid agencies say they want to solve:...

It’s untrue, unhelpful and intellectually lazy to suggest that the 0.01% are bad people. No one planned it and no one is to blame. This is not a binary, satisfying battle between good and evil.