You’re going on a cross-country trip. Airplane, train, bus, car, or bike? Airplane No, that’s fly over country and don’t get to see the country. Train, bus public transportation and no control and limiting to particular routes. Bike not an option. Car equal freedom of movement and flexibility of routes and get to meet the …
PULLING UP THE DRAWBRIDGE: BRITAIN’S OLDEST NATIONAL SPORT by Lawson Akhigbe
Zoom out far enough and you will notice something remarkable about Britain. We are not just a nation of shopkeepers, nor merely a nation of dog lovers, nor even exclusively a nation that apologises when you step on our foot. We are a nation that bellyaches about immigration. This is not new. It is not …
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The Ghost of Enoch Powell and the Children Who Fear the Whip by Lawson Akhigbe
Reform UK Limited Some political inheritances are stately homes. Others are offshore accounts. A select few inherit a speech. The ideological grandchildren of Enoch Powell have now reached full maturity. They have mortgages, podcasts, think tanks, and a permanent sense of cultural bereavement. They look around modern Britain and whisper gravely about “cultural erasure” a …
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Yes, we can NOW we have by Lawson Akhigbe
Nigel Farage In 1968, in a hall in Birmingham, Enoch Powell warned of “rivers of blood.” Britain, he suggested, stood on the brink of racial cataclysm. Decades later, the phrase still echoes whenever non-white migration is discussed—as if demographic change were a prelude to civil war rather than to Sunday roast with jollof rice on …
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Me, myself, personally
Who is the most confident person you know? When I look at the mirror while standing before it. What's not to be confident about. Cogito, ergo sum

