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If the Republican Party were a romantic comedy, it would star Donald Trump as the loud, orange leading man who crashes the wedding, steals the bride, and then insists it was his wedding all along. The guests — that is, the GOP establishment — would stand there clutching their pearls, muttering, “Well, he’s not exactly …
If Britain had a Ministry of Strange Phenomena, Nigel Farage would be classified under Category A: Entities That Cannot Be Destroyed by Conventional Means. He is the political cockroach after the apocalypse—the one survivor wandering Westminster asking, “So then, what’s our plan on immigration?” The Dulwich Years: The Prequel Nobody Wanted Nigel Farage’s origin story …
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The National Assembly leadership wants Nigerians to believe that re-gazetting the tax law is a confidence-building exercise. In reality, it is an admission that the process has gone badly wrong—and that no one is quite sure who changed what, when, or on whose authority. Let us begin with the obvious. The 10th National Assembly, under …
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At about 2pm on Christmas Day—because nothing says “peace on earth” like a surprise airstrike—Donald J. Trump announced on his TruthSocial pulpit that he had ordered military strikes on ISIS camps in Nigeria. While most Nigerians were digesting rice, goat meat and unresolved family grudges, the Commander-in-Chief of Festive Chaos was busy pressing the “Tomahawk” …
A new US National Security Strategy sets out in stark terms Trump’s approach to Europe (Photo: Paul Morigi/Getty) Will our leaders - so slow in the past to react to Russian aggression - realise the transatlantic alliance is history? When this era’s history books are written, no one will be able to argue that Britain …
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