Deindustrialisation Can Kill a Region

Interesting numbers released by the Guardian recently, concerning the areas of the UK with the highest number of graduates. After a quick look and some unscientific cross-referencing, what seemed most apparent is that those areas with the fewest graduates also had the largest number of people claiming some sort of unemployment benefit. Stick with me, [...]

Should Your Political Views Be a Sackable Offence?

I might still be curled up asleep when you read this, but at the time of writing, the leaked British National Party list hasn’t gone public yet; there are just a few Wikileaks teases and a lot of speculation on Twitter. Now, I don’t know if anyone who joined and voted for the party is [...]

What is the Point of Free Speech if the Media Self-Censors?

Last week, on the Kenya Imagine website, S Abdi Sheikh wrote a cogent piece on why he no longer bothers with Kenyan newspapers. I’m forced to agree with the main thrust of his argument, which is that there is no longer no real news in the Kenyan media. Press releases are recycled virtually word for [...]

Change a Long Time Coming for the Grand Coalition

To the surprise of nobody but the most Panglossian of optimists, the grand coalition’s make-up session has fallen apart, with the two sides unable to put aside their differences and come to some sort of arrangement where they might actually be able to govern the country effectively. Will this change anything? Probably not.
The Kenyan populace [...]

Is the Government Determined to Drive Us to Violent Revolution?

I try to keep this blog free of the profanities that litter my everyday speech, but for this post I am willing to make an exception: I am so pleased that I am not in Kenya right now, because I am fit to cut a bitch. Several bitches, actually.
The bitches in question are the scoundrels, [...]