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  • Dear Brother Leader and Sister Burqa

    Some news items are difficult to write about. and some not.  Libyan citizens (apart from Gaddafi’s own tribe) have generally been oppressed for forty years with secret police instigated disappearances, torture and an absence of the freedoms they would like to take for granted.  The African emissaries did themselves much harm in toadying up to… Know More

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  • Blind Spots

    I was reading a BBC website article on acronyms and the internet this morning and had one of those rude awakenings that my parents must have had after I first played a 78 of Bill Haley’s Rock Around the Clock as it ushered in teenspeak from the United States which was completely unintelligible to them. … Know More

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  • Upwardly and laterally mobile in Ghana

    Maybe life is a struggle for everyone, rich or poor if you see it through the eyes of each individual but it doesn’t look like that from the outside.  While students in developed countries fight to maintain their grants and fulfil the expectations of having universal education, albeit with varying degrees of fee-paying in the… Know More

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  • The eyes have it but who cares?

    I have always had problems with my eyes and, in the course of a fairly physical as well as intellectual life I have suffered just about every operation on them known to ophthalmologists.  If eyes are the windows to the soul, then whatever spiritual essence resides inside must be mutated out of all recognition!  … Know More

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  • Skin Deeper

    I am writing this on the road back from Cape Coast to Accra.  We have just spent the weekend on the beach; long stretches of sand and coconut palms, a few local villagers walking to and from Elmina, a small and delightful fishing port.  From the chalet they are silhouettes, carrying large basins full of… Know More

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  • Covering the Japanese Tsunami, UK style

    I suppose that the more you travel, the less jingoistic you become.  I am three thousand miles from the UK these days and it seems like so many light years from home – not!  That’s it, really.  Home is for me an ephemeral outdated concept, maybe the place of my childhood or childrearing years but… Know More

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  • It’s life but not as we know it, Captain…

    Leaving aside belief in gods, the hereafter, heaven and hell and the trappings of metaphysics, where are we when we drop, for example, the meta in the last domain? Where are we with science, generally? Do we believe it? The professions are certainly beholden to it. Law now has its forensics, medicine has its pharmaceuticals,… Know More

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  • Enemies of the People

    As Gaddafi unleashes sub-Saharan mercenaries, threatening to kill the children in every family that has protested against his tyranny, Cameron the UK Prime Minister is wandering with a band of British arms dealers around Kuwait. His snake oil salesman’s rhetoric runs along the lines of every country needs to defend its borders. After the Libyan… Know More

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  • The Courage of Convictions

    Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid is a rather piquant quotation from Franklin P Jones. Watching the domino demonstrations in the Middle East and North Africa where thousands march in the face of guns is a humbling experience. It is too easy to see small figures on a tv screen and… Know More

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  • History is egg-shaped

    When I was a boy in Durham I used to go egg collecting. The tallest risk-laden trees for rooks’ eggs, sinking marshy waters for those of the black headed gull and flimsy attic floors for a starling’s ice blue oval. The lure of the colours, shapes and sizes, the art of blowing them, the need… Know More

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