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Gambler The Definition Nobody Asked For Character, we are told in every commencement speech and every eulogy, is what you do when nobody is watching. This is a lovely sentiment, entirely useless for governance, because in politics somebody is always watching, usually with a phone out. A more honest definition, and the one this piece …
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Walter Rodney To take Rodney seriously would mean rewriting Sierra Leone’s past from below and from the outside in at the same time. …Rodney must be placed at the centre of a people-centred historiography of Sierra Leone, even if he has not been institutionally recognised as such. His interest was not in rulers alone, nor …
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What’s something you do completely differently from how you were raised? My parents were experts and no need to reinvent the wheel
The slogan gained prominence in the aftermath of the Birmingham pub bombings and the subsequent conviction of six Irish men the now infamous Birmingham Six. Their case quickly became a lightning rod for allegations of coerced confessions, police misconduct, and a justice system more interested in closure than correctness.
