Quote of the day 15th February 2018

"Giving an organisation a pass more or less guarantees, paradoxically, that its standards deteriorate. A combination of moral superiority and lack of serious public scrutiny is more than most organisations can bear."

(Dan Hannan MEP in an article examining why there seems to have been less outrage expressed in the MSM and social media at the atrocious behaviour of Oxfam in Haiti than there was about the - admittedly tawdry - goings on at the so-called "President's Club."

For the avoidance of doubt neither Dan's article nor I in quoting it defend in any way the "President's Club" event but on any objective measure the behaviour of some senior Oxfam employees towards far more vulnerable women in a disaster-struck area they were supposed to be helping appears to have been significantly worse.

You can read Dan's article in full here.)

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