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Staying Abreast of Women’s Fashion
Read more: Staying Abreast of Women’s FashionI am on a train travelling at high speed towards Paris. Suddenly it is cooler. The heat of the south is giving way to weather much like one might expect in East Anglia in the UK. People in the carriage are donning extra clothes. A woman in the seat in front has screwed down a… Know More
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A Night at the Opera, Rural French Style
Read more: A Night at the Opera, Rural French StyleWe are still in France for one more week, the weather is as hot as Accra but the air is dry and, being up a mountain, there is a clean crispness that is very reviving. It is a perfect counterpoint to the humidity of equatorial Ghana and I am made to feel like a swallow… Know More
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Vodafone: Polluters of an African Heritage
Read more: Vodafone: Polluters of an African HeritageHere I am in France, with space for reflection after a rather hectic time of it. I am at an age when, gradually, assumptions are made that with the passing years the vital edge of analytical thought decreases and the demand for my labour consequently diminishes. I finished my ten year stint with the British… Know More
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Phone sex and basic instincts…
Read more: Phone sex and basic instincts…Sometimes I feel I have to write a blog because something has happened which, I know, is another step towards a change in human affairs and that my grandchildren will be living in times that make today prosaic by comparison. On QI, that TV programme which occasionally reaches the twin peaks of erudition and comedy… Know More
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I Spy
Read more: I SpyLeaving the grotesque nature of war aside and the appalling way that international politics is geared to decrease the chances of states like Ghana from achieving trade parity with the west, the news recently on other obscene fronts is equally dispiriting. Spying and assassinations are all the vogue. Israeli hit squads travel across borders to… Know More
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Two legs good, four legs bad…
Read more: Two legs good, four legs bad…When you are viewing the World Cup in Ghana as an ardent football supporter, the phrase’opiate of the masses’ returns to thought, often and enough. Last night was very wild here. Horns. Singing. Dogs barking. Chickens cackling and crowing. Goats bleating. Speakers blasting. Euphoria as the goals went in. Skill beats brawn. And the silky… Know More
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Homos have rights too…!
Read more: Homos have rights too…!This was the headline on the front page of the Daily Graphic in Ghana yesterday. I remember a couple of science fiction novels based upon the premise that, among the infinite number of parallel universes, it must be that each of us has infinite possibilities of playing out our existence. Take what is happening here.… Know More
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Just my cup of tea….
Read more: Just my cup of tea….I can’t remember if it was the Goon Show on the Walnut caesd wireless, but I suspect the sketch came from there. I was intoxicated by the Goons in a way that maybe viewers took to Monty Python later. Catch phrases, surreal plots and resident characters that grew and changed over time, the point about… Know More
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The New Creationists
Read more: The New CreationistsA long time ago in the hazy dawn of my memory, aged around eight years, I was for a while in the choir of the local church before being expelled for various bits of nuisance, including questioning God’s status. My mother used to say that Shadforth church was high. I had no idea what that… Know More
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Killing Boat People
Read more: Killing Boat PeopleAs I was born in India, I have a great regard for Ghandi’s peaceful protests in Africa and in his homeland. My father, who trained Indian military during the second world war, saw things differently. Ghandi, as far as he was concerned, was troublesome. I am sure that the Greek women (as depicted in Lysistrata)… Know More