SNAKE IN A POT

After about 2 months, I can confirm that I can drive around a bit of London (about 5 miles around our home) and am very pleased with my rate of grasping things. I am deeply disturbed by the description of summer in this country, it is very different from what I expected it to be. I understand it officially begins in June and ends in September and apparently it is the only opportunity for people to have a life of barbeques and beaches (poor things!). If what we have just gone through is the best they can get, the good citizens of Kabale are having a blast. Meanwhile, the lack of human labour in this country is disturbingly irritating. It has finally brought me face to face and full speed with the flat parks from IKEA. Surely, IKEA must have been founded by a woman. IKEA is a leaf from a book written by the 21st feminist’s titled – How to decimate a man’s ego. For the past few weekends we have consistently turned up at the IKEA store in Croydon to find furniture and furnishings fo...

The big story this month was that of a scientist who has declared that black people are less intelligent than white folks. A celebrated (now infamous) scientist was ridiculed and widely condemned for comments he made about the black man’s intelligence. James Watson who is a winner of the Nobel Prize for his part in the unravelling of DNA claimed that black people were less intelligent than white people and added that the idea that "equal powers of reason" were shared across racial groups was a delusion. Although his claims were dismissed by most, this is not the first time I have heard of such claims. Some people (read white) claim that a black man would not have survived and developed the northern hemisphere with its adverse weather patterns because he does not have the brains to make the best of the situation. There are all kinds of stereotypes about black people and I wonder why this man was vilified, he is just taking the stereotyping to the next level. It is up t...