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WINDRUSH: Who Really Needed Whom? By Lawson Akhigbe

The untold story of John Henry Clavell Smythe and the origins of Black migration to Britain Sometimes history is not wrong. It is simply incomplete. And occasionally, the missing piece is preserved in the recollections of a son telling the story of his father. The popular historical narrative of mass Black migration to Britain begins with the arrival of the Empire Windrush at Tilbury Docks on 22 June 1948. The event has become a defining moment in modern British history and the beginning of what is popularly known as the Windrush Generation.

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Nigerian: Country Policy and Information notes Guidance used by UK Visas and Immigration to make decisions in asylum and human rights applications from Nigeria

Country Policy and Information Notes (CPIN) for Nigeria are official guidance documents published by the UK Home Office and used by UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) caseworkers, decision-makers, and immigration judges to assess protection (asylum) and human rights claims from Nigerian nationals.

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Tinubu’s extended absence by Punch Editorial Board

NIGERIA has a disturbing habit of allowing those in power to treat constitutional restraints as inconveniences rather than obligations. Once again, the country is confronted with questions over presidential absence, constitutional compliance and the willingness of its institutions to hold the powerful to account.

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The Union Jack Won’t Fix Britain: Farage, Braverman and the Politics of National Nostalgia by Lawson Akhigbe

When a political movement cannot quite explain where Britain should go, it apparently finds comfort in explaining where Britain used to be.

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Born Free, Housed First: Reform UK and the Return of the Birth Certificate as Political Document by Lawson Akhigbe

Reform UK has now taken that quiet administrative habit and turned it into an actual policy platform, delivered at a press conference rather than buried in a PDF. Deputy leader Richard Tice has confirmed the party will prioritise British-born workers under 35 for social housing, alongside military veterans and married couples with children, should Reform enter government. The pitch comes wrapped in an infrastructure promise, 50,000 affordable homes a year, financed, the party insists, without new taxes or borrowing, which is the political equivalent of promising a birthday cake that requires no oven, no flour and no birthday.

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