New SCSC research explores how and why aid goes astray This week tabloid headlines screamed that the UK spends too much on foreign aid. Oh, and by the way, it is all either wasted or siphoned off by corrupt elites.…
Yearly Archives: 2016
Cricket, corruption and the challenge of reform
When corruption is mentioned, it is easy to instantly assume lots of things. Of one those assumptions is likely to be that whatever is happening, it is happening far from the UK’s shores. What one doesn’t tend to think of…
Posted in Sport
Strawberries, cream and … courtsiders; tennis and the challenge of tackling corruption
Tennis, in the UK at least, is a sport of strawberries, cream and luscious green lawns. It couldn’t be more middle-England. Elsewhere in the world they may not, Melbourne perhaps to one side, have the lawns, but tennis is still…
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Tennis, court-siders and the challenge of dealing with sports betting
Anyone who’s spent any time watching sport on British TV will be more than familiar with the dulcet tones of Ray Winstone. Sport is, so the actor famous for his hardman persona will tell you, “all about the in-play” as…
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The UK makes the top ten in the CPI, but let’s not get too carried away
Transparency International (TI), the world’s leading anti-corruption NGO, has published the latest edition of its annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI). On the face of it, the 2015 CPI shows the UK to be doing rather well. But let’s not get…
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