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Nigel Farage of Reform Party UK (Ltd) has spent years cultivating a very particular brand identity: the man who hears the word immigration and immediately checks his wallet, his borders, and his blood pressure. To the casual observer, Farage’s politics appear animated by an aversion to non-white people, immigrants, the EU, NATO, and any organisation …
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Or: How the High Cost of Flying Now Competes with the Ticket Price for Being Alive In the land where every traffic jam is an Olympic event and every black-out comes with a bonus cardio workout, Nigerians have always excelled at making the best of the worst. But lately, we’ve found a sector outpacing even …
If you could un-invent something, what would it be? I'd rather adjust to the new reality than wish the change didn't happen. From the Stone Age to the Information and now Intelligence ages, there's been tons of positive changes, even with some drawbacks. Looking back, it's amazing to see just how far we've come in …
The West Wing debate There are moments when television does more than entertain. It pauses mid-monologue, clears its throat, and quietly hands policymakers a solution—only for them to ignore it and borrow more money instead.One such moment came in The West Wing, season 7, during a fictional presidential debate that now feels uncomfortably like a …
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Among the doctrines that underpin the legal process in Nigeria, few are as profound and pervasive as judicial independence, but no doctrine in the ecosystem of the law rivals its elusiveness. The idea is ubiquitous in the syllabus of every programme leading to the award of a degree in law, in political science or public …
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