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Britain
Introducing the Apes Obey! Series
Thursday, 17 July 2008 12:23 A GMT+01
Introducing the Apes Obey! series of blogs that takes a phrase our of an excerpt of Lord Lugard's writings 86 years ago and aligns it with contemporary events in Nigeria today, showing how those observations still find true today.
The Yesterday Telegraph for breakfast
Wednesday, 14 May 2008 10:10 P GMT+01
I have a gotten a reply from the Daily Telegraph, they would not be ensuring the paper arrives early in Gran Canaria
Spotting the English from afar
Friday, 2 May 2008 12:22 P GMT+01
What reputations the English have, in public, at dinner and in sport.
Nigeria: Kick out all foreign British Airways staff
Sunday, 27 April 2008 3:05 P GMT+01
The developments regarding the British Airways treatment of Nigerians are coming to a head, some serious action needs to be taken about their attitude and the revelation that it is institutionally racist.
Some African development issues are covered.
Boycott British Airways
Friday, 11 April 2008 6:26 A GMT+01
British Airways has blundered agin and this time with the maltreatment of Nigerians. It is time for us to rise up against this behemoth of bumbling and give it one where it hurts - do not fly that airline if you can help it.
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Wiping out another World's Lost Tribe
Friday, 28 March 2008 11:55 A GMT+01
A reality TV company goes searching for lost tribes and may have inadvertently inflicted upon the tribe a deadly flu that could wipe them all out.
Do we have responsibilities for tempering our curiosity?
Dare to think and change the world - Arthur C. Clarke tribute
Thursday, 20 March 2008 4:02 A GMT+01
Each mind developed on the thoughts of another mind till the reality changed the world forever. A tribute at the death of Sir Arthur C. Clarke
The moral dilemma of mother rabbits
Saturday, 15 March 2008 3:51 A GMT+01
Mothers and children from so many fathers and the dangers the children face growing up in possibly unstable environments. One child dies another goes missing "voluntarily".
Blockbuster snake-oil anti-depressant drugs
Wednesday, 27 February 2008 4:14 P GMT+01
The drugs for managing depression might just cause more depression when we realise that we are being given pills that could well be placebos to make us feel better for a huge price.
Nigeria: Abusing the Honours System
Saturday, 16 February 2008 6:46 P GMT+01
The Speaker of the House who has only been in office for 4 months gets conferred with a national honour and people are complaining that the honour is of too low a class.
I say, he has no track record to be deserving of any honour yet.
Academic theologians creating Islamic disquiet
Monday, 11 February 2008 12:06 A GMT+01
When church leaders state opinions about other religions in academic lectures to erudite audiences they set off a chain of adverse reactions in the general uninvited public that condemns the leaders to possible ignominy and derision.
The Archbishop of CounterBury
Saturday, 9 February 2008 3:30 P GMT+01
The Archbishop of Canterbury has created a storm that is he now stuck in the miiddle of - he suggested Sharia Law in the UK is inevitable.
Heathrow needs to grow
Friday, 1 February 2008 4:30 P GMT+01
As a user of London Heathrow Airport, it needs expansion and it needs to expand soon.
Averting insanity
Thursday, 31 January 2008 4:57 P GMT+01
News of a co-pilot losing his marbles three-quarters through a flight means more needs to be done about addressing mental stability in high-responsibility job roles in the workplace.
Dickens Lives in New York
Monday, 28 January 2008 12:28 A GMT+01
An English family visiting New York relives a Dickensian nightmare.
Rogue Trader II - 4 times Bigger
Thursday, 24 January 2008 9:46 P GMT+01
A 31-year old "rogue-trader" loses $7.1 billions at Société Générale Bank - questions and no answers to satisfy me yet.
Dogged by Goth prejudice
Thursday, 24 January 2008 5:20 P GMT+01
A Goth couple are hounded off buses in Yorkshire because one of them is on a dog leash.
Concerns about safety are one thing but when prejudice is expressed in hurtful words - we have another matter at hand.
Interest rates: Hammer hits nail (thumb)
Wednesday, 23 January 2008 5:16 P GMT+01
As far as interest rates are concerned in the US, the hammer has hit the nail quite hard - only that the nail is on the thumb - Ouch! Ouch!
And there would be a few more of those before things turn out right.
Widespread Gusset Anxiety
Monday, 21 January 2008 3:11 P GMT+01
Jeremy Paxman asks a question about why his underwear is not more providing the support he is accustomed to. I hope Marks & Spencer has some good answers.
Coward, the Courageous Pilot
Sunday, 20 January 2008 12:29 A GMT+01
This is like life imitating cartoons from Courage the Cowardly Dog to Coward the Courageous Man who landed a distressed airplane safely just before the runway at London Heathrow Airport last Thursday.
Boats, Threats & Videotape
Friday, 11 January 2008 7:48 P GMT+01
The boats, the threats and the videotapes from both the United States and Iran about a confrontation in the Strait of Hormuz show that someone is up to no good - but who?
Rottweilers are NOT pets
Saturday, 29 December 2007 11:36 P GMT+01
Another child mauled to death by a rottweiler - the case for having one in the home is completely indefensible. They are not pets, they are animals needed for another kind of service.
Are you buying trainers?
Thursday, 27 December 2007 6:53 P GMT+01
There should be no truth in the story that Nike UK has not paid some of its staff their salaries by the 27th of December. There really should be no truth in that.
President overrules Mohammed
Monday, 3 December 2007 10:21 A GMT+01
The President of Sudan has pardoned the Teddy-Bear teacher. Thanks!
Don't name the teddy bear
Thursday, 29 November 2007 6:58 P GMT+01
Religious sensibilities offended by benign lapses in judgement or just humorous release are becoming the energy of the idle mob.
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