There is an old journalistic adage, attributed variously to everyone from New York editors to Fleet Street drunks, that a dog biting a man is not news, but a man biting a dog is. Nigerian political journalism, however, long ago exhausted even that modest standard of novelty. In Nigeria, the dog bites. The man bites …
The Grievance Engine That Cannot Govern: Farage, Reform UK Ltd, and the Coming Reckoning By Lawson Akhigbe
There is a particular species of political movement that thrives in opposition the way certain fungi thrive in darkness, not merely surviving but positively luminous with grievance, indignation, and the righteous fury of people who have been, in their own expert estimation, catastrophically wronged. Nigel Farage and his merry company of insurgents at Reform UK …
The Middle East Curse of Labour by Lawson Akhigbe
Keir and Mandelson There is now a growing pattern in British politics that ought to terrify every Labour prime minister. It is not strikes in Liverpool, miners in Yorkshire, or intellectual rebellions from Oxford common rooms that have brought Labour governments to the edge of ruin. No. The political graveyard of Labour leaders increasingly appears …
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