'We don't need an aid budget of 0.7% of national income any more.'

That's what I'm hoping we'll be able to say in future. But there's no way it's going to happen unless we tackle corruption, once and for all.

We all know that it's one of the biggest barriers...

It's not just down to me to tackle poverty. It's not just down to me individually, to my organisation, or to the UK. The sooner we stop abdicating responsibility and expecting 'someone' to sort it all out, the better.

Because there is no 'they' in the fight against poverty.

Aid doesn't always work.

Is that what you expected the chief exec of an NGO serving more than 50 countries to say? No? I'm not surprised.

The quality of the debate around UK government spending on aid has been pretty dire. We've allowed ourselves to become polarised, so the development...

It's been a very exciting and emotional two weeks cheering on the Olympians, but the highlight for me was Cameron leaving a legacy of London 2012 beyond even our exceptional haul of medals by hosting a global hunger event bringing together sportspeople and senior politicians from Brazil, Kenya, Bangladesh and...

It seems like every conversation I have lately, I get asked if I've read The Hunger Games. At work, at church, at dinner - eventually I realised I should probably find out what's getting people so animated.

The dystopian fiction of The Hunger Games is set in...

The Millennium Development Goal on water has been met. This is a major global achievement and we should all feel pride in the part that our governments have played to get us to this milestone.

That over 2 billion people have gained access to clean water to drink since 1990...