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If you’ve followed the news over the last decade, you’ve seen the headlines. The names Rotherham and Rochdale have become shorthand for a specific, horrific type of crime: organised child sexual exploitation (CSE). But if you listen closely to the political debate, you’ll notice something striking. These particular scandals occupy a vastly disproportionate amount of …
What’s your favorite thing to cook? For tea, chai latte. I prefer to eat out, let others take the strain.
There is a peculiar magic trick the United States performs on the international stage. With one hand, it builds institutions, blesses them with lofty language, and sells them as guardians of order. With the other hand, it discredits, undermines, and threatens to demolish the very same institutions—usually when they stop obeying Washington’s GPS. Gaza is …
The Nigerian political system exhibits a strong focus on the mechanics of winning elections, often through transactional and sometimes destructive means. · Transactional Politics and "Political Marketplaces": Nigerian elections have been described as functioning like political marketplaces, where power is treated as a commodity to be bought, sold, and fought over. Elite deal-making and backroom …
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England has always had a remarkable talent for exporting its problems — and then pretending they were never homegrown in the first place. A few centuries ago, when the jails were full and the gallows couldn’t keep up, Britain had a brilliant idea: ship the criminals somewhere sunny. Thus, Australia was born — not from …
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Centre for Nigeria Progress 