Why it's time to cut aid to Brazil

Britain's foreign aid programme has historically been a chance to distribute our largesse among the poorer nations on this planet, not fund economies that are richer than ours. That would be just plain dumb.

But as news came this week that Brazil has leapfrogged the UK into sixth place in the world economic league it has also emerged that we are still spending foreign aid in the land of carnival thanks to projects started years ago that are still in place.