I’ll start today’s post with an apology to my regular readers. My Christmas holiday from blogging somehow extended through January too. However, I now have a backlog of things to share so be prepared.

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Regular readers will know I have been following the story of David Cecil, a British theatre producer, who had been jailed in Uganda for staging a play about homosexuality. The start of 2013 finally saw this injustice put right, when Cecil was released (on a legal technicality).

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You can read the full story here.

It is somewhat of a pyrrhic victory, given why he was released, but at least David Cecil is now a free man.