At the end of the 1940’s my father, manager of a Swiss company, arrived in the country. He threw me out of the home for being a ‘stone thrower’ at a school where leftist teachers were turning everyone into Marxists. It’s an ideology that’s still in vogue today. Armando […]
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Livingstone, admired and criticised
This year commemorates the bicentenary of the birth of Doctor David Livingstone whose archive is on show until 17 May, together with curios which accompanied him on his illustrious African expeditions. With the arrival of this anniversary, people in London now have the opportunity to get to know the […]
The bullying bug
I distinctly remember walking down the road from the railway station on the way home from school, the spit dripping down the back of my coat as the other boys spat huge gobs at my retreating figure. Steve Latham This was merely one episode in the bullying that […]
Care matters
There is a difference between the expressions ‘I don’t mind’ and ‘I don’t care’. The first one might have to do with indifference as acceptance and respect (I do not mind what my neighbour prefers to eat); the second one refers to indifference as lack of engagement (I do not […]
Modern trafficking and African-Caribbean slavery: A false comparison?
One of the greatest myths is that modern trafficking can be directly compared with African-Caribbean chattel slavery. There are a number of fallacies in this argument. Nigel Pocock Could it be, as is suggested by Professor Geoff Palmer, that local communities can talk about modern trafficking, because it […]














