I should apologise for the horrendous lack of activity on this blog over the last few weeks. Events have taken place in the world. I have been doing things. I’ve just been too busy to write about it. Hence the urgent need for this missive. Terms agreed and documentation obtained, I arrived back in Kenya… [Read more…]
February 8, 2012
Fabio Capello’s public criticism of the FA’s decision to take the England captaincy from John Terry may have won him the support of Sir Alex Ferguson, but it just might cost him his job as England manager. Should the FA decide that Capello is in breach of his contract, as ex-FA Chief Executive David Davies… [Read more…]
February 7, 2012
After thirteen years at the helm of what has in that time been one of the country’s most stable football clubs, Barry Kilby has announced that he is to stand down as chairman of Burnley FC at the end of the season. This is sad news indeed, particularly as Kilby has cited health reasons for… [Read more…]
February 3, 2012
Firstly, an apology for my long silence (even though I suspect many of you may have welcomed it). I started 2012 by taking what amounted to a frivolous month off, catching up with friends and family in the UK and getting away from the rat race that is journalism in East Africa. Immediately upon my… [Read more…]
January 7, 2012
Having taken a detailed look at and done a lot of research into the slums around Nairobi, notably Kibera, I was interested to take a look at the famous townships around Cape Town. During the apartheid era, many black, Asian and “coloureds” (as they were known) lived in or were forced to relocate to these… [Read more…]
December 29, 2011
After a hectic last few weeks at work rushing to get content for two magazines written and edited, it was with some relief that we closed the office and were able to look forward to a long break. A manic Christmas party was hastily and successfully arranged, and after a blur of a few days… [Read more…]
December 15, 2011
“As President, I will close Guantanamo, reject the Military Commissions Act and adhere to the Geneva Conventions. Our Constitution and our Uniform Code of Military Justice provide a framework for dealing with the terrorists.” The words of then-Senator Barack Obama in August 2007, making a promise he would repeat often during his successful presidential campaign,… [Read more…]
December 13, 2011
While some friends decided that hiking Mount Kenya was a suitably relaxing way to spend the Independence Day weekend (yet another excuse for Kenyans to take a day off work) we decided that hitting the coast was a better way to end the year. With this in mind we boarded the very colonial Nairobi-Mombasa train.… [Read more…]
December 2, 2011
The title of this blog says it all really. Yes, Jeremy Clarkson is an overpaid fool who thinks he is much more amusing than he actually is. Unfortunately, the BBC and millions of Top Gear viewers agree, and thus he is incessantly wheeled out in order to make some kind of outrageous remark that will… [Read more…]
December 1, 2011
Living in Kenya means World Aids Day has a particular resonance to me this year. With 7.1 percent of adults between the ages of 15 and 49 infected with HIV, the country is at the forefront of the global battle against the disease. Indeed, the impact of HIV/AIDS has always been at its most devastating… [Read more…]
November 30, 2011
One could almost feel sorry for George Osborne as he faced the House of Commons to deliver his bleak autumn statement, knowing he was about to paint a dismal picture of the British economy and undermine his own claims of competency in handling its problems. That is, if one was able to forget that he… [Read more…]
February 29, 2012
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