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In journalism, the oldest truism is that "dog bites man" isn’t news. A dog is supposed to bite. If a dog bites a postman, you don’t stop the printing presses; you only call the front desk if the postman bites the dog back
When a British-born Black politician is told that his loyalty belongs elsewhere, the question is no longer merely about immigration or patriotism. It is about who gets to decide who truly belongs to Britain.
From the moment Sean Connery first uttered “Bond, James Bond” in *Dr. No*, right through Daniel Craig’s final, rather damp exit in *No Time to Die*, I, like millions of other loyal subjects, laboured under a charming delusion. I believed the United Kingdom possessed impregnable security. MI5, MI6, the whole alphabet soup of spooks with licences to kill, gadgets that could turn a fountain pen into a nuclear deterrent, and a national instinct for spotting a wrong ’un at fifty paces. We had the Queen, the navy, and 007.
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.
Every crisis deserves a prompt, and the far right is nothing if not punctual. Five men were arrested early on a Sunday near RAF Fairford, the Gloucestershire base from which US B-1 bombers have flown missions against Iran, after a local farmer noticed three white vans heading towards it. Bomb disposal robots trundled about the woods, and dozens of villagers were bundled out of their homes. Nigel Farage, meanwhile, had already left the building, intellectually speaking.
