This journalist who was beaten by Ugandan state agents, believes they were the Special Forces Command soldiers he saw emerge from the State House compound earlier that day.

The world is incredibly hard & slow to change. Impatient people who try often only deliver wasteful spectacle. Waste money, waste time, waste lives, waste goodwill, to increase e-mail traffic when you set out to change a government prudently designed to make its mistakes slowly

But rich people, under what circumstances do you actually use that tufted bench at the foot of your bed? Happy New Year. But I suppose yours was pre-ordained to be a happy one.

In my own house, I never attempt to cook anything more complex than tea, and even that I burn. When I travel, I try to push out of my comfort zone. And every damn time, the result looks like this. SMH

The poorer countries wanted $500-billion. The richer ones argued it down to $300-billion. And, they are likely to give only some of that, mostly to consultants in their own countries — to advise ‘recepient’ countries.

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We give my dad a hard time about being a hoarder but every once in a while he will rummage through his boxes and unearth something quite lovely, actually.