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There was a time in British politics when dullness was considered a virtue. A Prime Minister who governed competently, balanced competing interests, kept the machinery of state functioning and avoided national melodrama was seen as doing his job. Today, such a politician would be eaten alive before the first Prime Minister’s Questions clip hit TikTok. …
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What’s a book that completely surprised you? For the time in recorded history, the alleged author of this book is not aware of the deal, let alone, knowing the art of a deal. He knows no art of accepting a positive answer for a deal.
Nigel Faraga (Thomas Moore steps to the podium, his expression weary but resolute. He looks out at the angry politicians.) Friends… neighbors… countrymen. I hear you. I hear the fear in your voices, the frustration. Times are hard. Work feels scarce. It’s easy to look at a family who just arrived, who speaks a different …
Most African economies swept into 2026 with the wind in their sails after recording the best growth in a decade. Then the US and Israel attacked Iran. Just like the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and the Covid pandemic two years earlier, the continent will pay the price for far-away events that it didn’t start. A Middle …
In the long and colourful history of the Labour Party there have been two universally acknowledged suicide notes: the 1983 manifesto and the 2019 manifesto. One was so catastrophic that even senior Labour figures described it as “the longest suicide note in history.” The other arrived decades later to prove Labour still possessed both the …
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Centre for Nigeria Progress 