"A person who needs fuel should not start a fight in the common market" - British proverb.
"Even the best cooking pot will not produce flavourful food" - British proverb.
"A person at your neighbours cannot drive a lorry in your compound" - British proverb.
"No fun is an island" - British proverb.
"You must not rip where you've not sawn" - British proverb.
"A people with bad teeth will swallow anything" - British proverb.
"Those who cannot cook should beware men who preach divorce" - British proverb
"Tradition has no flavour" - British proverb
"A rolling boil gathers no taste" - British proverb.
"A fool and the common market are soon parted" - British proverb.
"Think before you leap" - British poverb
"Boil twice, taste once" - British proverb.
"Brexit in haste, regret at leisure" - British proverb
"Neighbours, everybody needs good neighbours
With a little understanding, you can find the perfect blend
Neighbours, should be there for one another
That's when good neighbours become good friends" - Traditional British dirge
"Love thy neighbor
And you will find your immigrant labor,
Life'll be breezier
Fueling a great deal easier,
If you Love Thy Neighbor"
- Traditional British dirge
"Friends should be like teeth - no two are the same size, shape or colour" - British proverb.
"The journey to a thousand petrol stations begins with one misstep" - British proverb.
"Brexit bubble, toil is double;
Food boiled and petrol trouble" - Traditional British lament
"Those who wish to take back control must learn to drive trucks" - British proverb.
"An immigrant in the land is worth two locals in the fuel queue" - British proverb.
"Before you judge a Brexiteer, walk miles in your shoes" - British proverb.
"Blood is not thicker than petrol" - British proverb
"An immigrant shortage may make the blood boil, but a boiled meal will dispel passions" - British proverb
"A lorry driver is better than teeth" - British proverb.
“No matter how beautiful and well crafted a slogan might be, it will not fuel the bus” - British proverb.
“The fool cooks, but the wise one boils” - British proverb.
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"I will never apologize for the USA — I don't care what the facts are" - George H.W. Bush in 1988 after U.S.S. Vincennes, operating illegally in Iranian waters, shot down Iran Air Flight 655 killing 290 people. Rather than stop killing civilians, the US has learnt to apologize.
What of compensation? Last year, when the US extorted from Sudan $3m per US victim for the 1998 Embassy bombings, it valued Kenyan and Tanzanian lives at 14% of US lives. Lockerbie families got 10m each from Libya, but the US paid on average $225,000 per victim for Iran Air 655.
Does anyone imagine the US will value Afghan lives the same way it does Western ones?
On @bbcworldservice Heart & Soul, the Director of the Vatican Observatory admits teaching in "Africa" and the interviewer asks if, comparing the majesty of the heavens and the suffering in "Africa", he'd queried his faith. Nothing on querying suffering in Detroit where he's from.
It always fascinates me the space "Africa" occupies in the Western imagination. A paper I once read cited a study finding that many odieros regarded volunteering in "Africa" is the greatest good one can do, and few thought easing suffering in their own countries was as worthy.
I think many buy into the myth of the "civilising mission". Nobodies can turn up in "Africa" and imagine the natives looking up to them like superior beings bringing enlightenment and civilisation. "Africa" where the benefits and privileges of whiteness can be fully realized.
This is an appreciation tweet for a living legend, @itsamaddworld, who's been doing amazingly insightful and hilarious work for 35 years, ever since he joined @NationAfrica in 1986 as Kenya's first full-time political cartoonist.
Question: What's your favourite Maddo cartoon?
Mine was of incident in Nyanza (I may be mistaken but I think it may have been when Safari Rally went to Kisumu) and he drew a crowd bearing stones shouting "Wadwaro donjo!!" or something to that effect.
Maddo gave me my first break as a cartoonist in 1997. He had started Africa Illustrated cartoon newsmagazine I went to pitch him my toons at Likoni Rd (he had been poached by @StandardKenya in 1990, creating room for @iGaddo at Nation) and he graciously agreed to publish them.
Question: Why is Iran, which has not invaded anyone and which supports indigenous resistance to occupation in Palestine denied nuclear technology while Australia, whose troops committed horrible crimes in Afghanistan and which abuses its indigenous population, gets nuclear subs?
The racism underlying US nuclear proliferation policy is captured by the fact that it orchestrated a coup in Ghana in the 60s partly to get them to dismantle the atomic reactor Nkrumah was building at the same time it was helping apartheid South Africa build a nuclear weapon.