Kemi Badenoch and the economy: a plan stuck in the Tory comfort zone by The Guardian Editorial

To outlast a prime minister always counts as some kind of achievement for an opposition leader, although Kemi Badenoch cannot claim credit for Sir Keir Starmer’s downfall. Sir Keir’s wounds were mostly self-inflicted. To the extent that opposition pressure was involved, it was electoral threats from Reform UK and the Green party that stoked Labour party frustration to a regicidal pitch. The Tory leader’s role was largely as a spectator.

When Power Becomes Permission: The Retreat of the Rule of Law in Nigeria by Lawson Akhigbe

A state begins to lose its authority when the law is formidable when dealing with the powerless but negotiable when dealing with the politically connected. Nigeria is increasingly flirting with precisely that danger.

The UN Just Redrew the World (and Left Trump’s America Looking Like a Lonely Speck) by Lawson Akhigbe

In a move as overdue as a colonial hangover, the United Nations General Assembly voted on 4 September 2026 to endorse the “Correct the Map” resolution. By a thumping 164–1, with a handful of nervous abstentions, the world formally encouraged governments, schools, publishers and tech platforms to stop treating the 16th-century Mercator projection as holy …