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Even as doodlebugs smashed into the surrounding streets, George Orwell consoled himself with this thought: “One thing that has always shown that the English ruling class are morally fairly sound, is that in time of war they are ready enough to get themselves killed.” Present those who governed us with an existential crisis, he argued …
The “enemies of the people” are not those opposing Brexit, but the reckless politicians who have brought us to this act of self-harm. We are reduced to this. A humiliated, supplicant British prime minister sitting alone in a Brussels side room for six hours while the rest of the European Union discusses our fate. A government …
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Michael Musto argues that wearing rose-colored glasses always leads to an unfair distortion — looking back on the best of the past while comparing it to the worst of the present. Sascha Kilmer/ Getty, Unsplash, Illustration by Katie Kosma Nostalgia Isn’t What It Used To Be was the hilarious title of Oscar winning actress Simone …
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Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) on Capitol Hill in June 2018. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP) What happens when immense bigotry gets lodged in a small mind? Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) is what happens. During a recent interview with the New York Times, King asked, “White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?” …
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Late Professor Pius Adesanmi In our country, the more we try to conclude complicated and inconclusive democratic matters including elections, the more inconclusive they seem. As we tried to conclude inconclusive gubernatorial matters at the weekend, the more complicated the inconclusive elections became everywhere. It came to pass at the weekend that the Osun state …
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Centre for Nigeria Progress 