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Zoom out far enough and you will notice something remarkable about Britain. We are not just a nation of shopkeepers, nor merely a nation of dog lovers, nor even exclusively a nation that apologises when you step on our foot. We are a nation that bellyaches about immigration. This is not new. It is not …
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Reform UK Limited Some political inheritances are stately homes. Others are offshore accounts. A select few inherit a speech. The ideological grandchildren of Enoch Powell have now reached full maturity. They have mortgages, podcasts, think tanks, and a permanent sense of cultural bereavement. They look around modern Britain and whisper gravely about “cultural erasure” a …
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Nigel Farage In 1968, in a hall in Birmingham, Enoch Powell warned of “rivers of blood.” Britain, he suggested, stood on the brink of racial cataclysm. Decades later, the phrase still echoes whenever non-white migration is discussed—as if demographic change were a prelude to civil war rather than to Sunday roast with jollof rice on …
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Who is the most confident person you know? When I look at the mirror while standing before it. What's not to be confident about. Cogito, ergo sum
Dr. Kingsley Ozumba Mbadiwe There is English the language of William Shakespeare, of the King James Bible, of legal drafts so long they require hydration breaks. And then there is English as deployed by Nigerians. Two entirely different species. When a Nigerian looks at you, tilts the head slightly, and says, “You dey speak English,” …
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Centre for Nigeria Progress 