Saga of A Rude Boy
We’ve all read a book, heard that it had been turned into a film, watched it, and come to the conclusion that the book was far...
Shaka Hislop: Gentleman at the Goalpost
On Friday I spoke to West Ham goalkeeper Shaka Hislop to fix a date for the interview. The next day he broke his leg. The highlights of the...
A slave speaks
This is a book with unlikely origins. Its story begins in a Cuban nursing home in the early 1960s, only a few years after Fidel Castro has...
Sombrero Island — a distant light | On this day
A small speck of land at the northern end of the Leewards, Sombrero Island is known to few — but has a surprisngly colourful history. James Ferguson tells tales of shipwrecks, guano mines, and the 150-year-old lighthouse that saved countless sailors’ lives in the dangerous Anegada Passage
Defenders of the faith | On this day
In 1917, eighty-three years after its abolition, the spectre of slavery still haunted colonial Trinidad and Tobago. The descendants of...
The Lüders affair | On this day
For much of the more than two centuries since its declaration of independence on 1 January, 1804, Haiti has been the victim of both foreign...
Twisting Rhodes | On this day
It grieves me to say this about my alma mater, but Oxford University has a long tradition of accepting money from bad people. Both the...
John James Audubon: The Birdman | On this Day
Of all the weird and wonderful pictures that have ended up in my house over the years, there is one I particularly like. Bought ages ago by...
