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PM Kier Starmer As of June 29, 2026, the 1824 Vagrancy Act has officially been repealed by the Labour government led by Kier Starmer. For over two centuries, this archaic law did something truly remarkable in its cruelty: it made the catastrophic misfortune of having nowhere to live a literal crime. Under the Act, sleeping …
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There is an unspoken ledger in the United States. It doesn’t appear in budgets, GDP figures, or campaign speeches, but it quietly governs outcomes all the same. Call it the value gap, the stubborn, deeply embedded assumption that some lives, specifically white lives, carry a higher premium than others. Not the ranting of fringe extremists, …
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Africa Africa is often described as a poor continent. That statement is repeated so often that it has become accepted as fact. Yet it collapses under the slightest inspection. The continent holds some of the world’s largest reserves of gold, cobalt, lithium, uranium, diamonds, oil, gas, manganese, rare earth minerals and fertile agricultural land. The …
There is a certain elegance to the language of international finance. It rarely raises its voice. It does not shout “suffer.” It says “adjustment.” It does not say “people will struggle to eat.” It says “fiscal consolidation.” It does not say “your transport costs will double overnight.” It says “market correction.” And nowhere is this …
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Centre for Nigeria Progress 