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Coloured? "We are a culture, not a race."
What’s racist about discussing the likely colour of your grandchild’s or niece’s skin, if the unborn child be the product of the union...
Richard Pooley
5 min read


Save the Planet’s Wildlife… Fly Long-Haul
“Not again! What’s the fascination with African wildlife? You can see it all in Attenborough’s documentaries.” Such was the reaction...
Richard Pooley
6 min read


A Reckless Guide to Reckless Travel
We live in an age of golden travel. Never has it been so easy to go so far and wide. Yet moving around also has limitations, bounded by...
Eric Boa
6 min read


Rwanda: An African Phoenix
I was drinking a Mützig beer near Bukavu on the Congo border a week ago with a Rwandan when the BBC World Service headlines described a...
Dr. Mark Nicholson
7 min read


A Pattern of Islands – Britain’s Shame
I had an evening alone the other day while my youngest two were living it up in Nairobi while my wife was searching for them...
Dr. Mark Nicholson
6 min read
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