Captured minds… (3rd January 2018)

“Open your eyes and look within. Are you satisfied with the life your living?” So sings Bob Marley (‘Exodus’) in thoughts of that movement of people to a supposedly better existence. He followed that with from the song: “we know […]

A choice on agony… (27th December 2017)

Private Baldrick of the “cunning” but not so clever plans leaves Captain Blackadder with “the agony of choice” between culinary efforts that looked more like strategies for harm than offers of sustainment. Anyway, it is in the make-believe world of […]

Sacrifice of service… (26th December 2017)

It was coming up to 7 pm on Wednesday 24th December 2014 at the Bo District Ebola Response Centre. The building’s caretaker had given the five-minute warning. We knew the drill – the electricity generator was about to be switched […]

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Politicians trying to convince us of alternative realities… (8th December 2017)

In the drivel are statistics and interpretations of them that leave little doubt they believe and place hope in the concept of the “Three Bs” – that “Bullshit Baffles Brains”. The aim is almost always to avoid responsibility for failures […]

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Con Plans (12th July 2017)

A line from Bob Marley’s ‘Crazy Baldhead’ – “Here comes the con man coming with his con plan”. Well here goes… The UK had a general election three year early because the Prime Minister wanted to “strengthen my hand”. To […]

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Hung and Feeble (9th June 2017)

What have we done? Correction… What has she done to us? We didn’t need an election. Mrs May herself told us so on numerous elections. Suddenly, for what seem to be reasons to serve her own purpose, we got one. […]

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My London…

London, this greatest of cities, received me into the world and I could not be prouder of her. However, drill down into my love of London and you’ll find it isn’t as simple as the “maybe it’s because I am […]

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May 25th… ‘Reflection Day’

May 25th; probably a day Sierra Leoneans should reflect on the past and take lessons forward. On this day in 1963, Sierra Leone was one of the founding nations of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), now the African Union […]

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They hurt children too…

Cowards hide behind whatever prevents them taking responsibility for their actions, or helps them avoid facing the people they hurt. They find easy ways into situations and often follow that with even easier ways out. They slip into concert halls […]

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Once it’s out…

A quarter of a century ago today, junior officers of the Sierra Leone Army deserted their posts during the war against the Revolutionary United Front and marched into the capital city with some of their soldiers. Ostensibly, the purpose was […]

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