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There is a particular species of political movement that thrives in opposition the way certain fungi thrive in darkness, not merely surviving but positively luminous with grievance, indignation, and the righteous fury of people who have been, in their own expert estimation, catastrophically wronged. Nigel Farage and his merry company of insurgents at Reform UK …
Keir and Mandelson There is now a growing pattern in British politics that ought to terrify every Labour prime minister. It is not strikes in Liverpool, miners in Yorkshire, or intellectual rebellions from Oxford common rooms that have brought Labour governments to the edge of ruin. No. The political graveyard of Labour leaders increasingly appears …
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What is your career plan? Asked and answered, see previous answer
If you had to describe your ideal life, what would it look like? I would get a mirror and have a look as I am living it.
There are many ways to miss a scandal. One is to arrive late. Another—more sophisticated, more Lagos-meets-London—is to arrive early, leave quietly, and then watch the building get cordoned off years later with legal tape while your name hovers awkwardly in the footnotes. Welcome to 10–11 Chester Terrace, NW1, a London property whose bricks have …
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Centre for Nigeria Progress 