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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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The Nigerian Question: Or, Why the Wheel Still Needs Inventing By Lawson Akhigbe

There is a saying, long attributed to the fog and frustration of Anglo-Irish relations, that goes roughly as follows: anyone who claims to have an answer to the Irish Question has clearly not understood the question. The precise origin of the quip is itself disputed, a fitting irony for an observation about irresolvability. Some give it to Benjamin Disraeli, that most theatrical of Victorian prime ministers.

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If you could go back and witness any historical event, which one would you pick? As the Chinese say, may you live in interesting times, and we are. The Roman decline was not televised, the British empire decline was photographed, the decline of the America empire is currently on your timeline and screens.

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Two Princes, Two Government Bodies, Two Scandals: When “Official” Becomes Fake After the Event by Lawson Akhigbe

There is something almost uniquely Nigerian about discovering that a government agency is fake after it has been given an office, treated as official, populated with officials, recognised by other parts of government and, in one case, even found its way into the national budget.

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Banking the Economy That Actually Exists (Now Featuring POS, Pepper Soup & Proper Hustle) by Lawson Akhigbe

There are two Nigerias. Not the televised one where Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar trade statistics like boxing jabs, but the economic one—the one that determines who actually gets access to money, and who gets a “please come back with collateral” smile. The first Nigeria is the one banks have always loved. Salaried workers. Corporate …

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