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Simon Akam

The Exquisitely English (and Amazingly Lucrative) World of London Clerks

A Dickensian profession that can still pay upwards of $650,000 per year.

Simon Akam Bloomberg Business May 2017 15min Permalink

Politics World

The Vagabond King

When 25-year-old Valentine Strasser seized power in Sierra Leone in 1992, he became the world’s youngest head of state. Today he lives with his mother and spends his days drinking gin by the roadside.

Simon Akam New Statesman Feb 2012 20min Permalink