Steve Haines

I was thinking about the challenges you set up here over the past couple of days - in particular the comment on attracting the most talented.

<>Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (the President of Liberia) has just published her new biography 'This Child Will Be Great' (it's well worth a read). One of the things she points out in the illuminating history of Liberia is that it was settled by freed American slaves who were being - distastefully phrased now - returned home. This was big stuff in the...