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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What is your career plan? Asked and answered, see previous answer
If you had to describe your ideal life, what would it look like? I would get a mirror and have a look as I am living it.
There are many ways to miss a scandal. One is to arrive late. Another—more sophisticated, more Lagos-meets-London—is to arrive early, leave quietly, and then watch the building get cordoned off years later with legal tape while your name hovers awkwardly in the footnotes. Welcome to 10–11 Chester Terrace, NW1, a London property whose bricks have …
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South African There is a particular cruelty in what is happening to Nigerians and other African migrants in South Africa right now. These are people who crossed borders within the same continent, many of them fleeing hardship, seeking opportunity, building lives with whatever they had. And in the country that the world once held up …
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Centre for Nigeria Progress 