England has always had a remarkable talent for exporting its problems — and then pretending they were never homegrown in the first place. A few centuries ago, when the jails were full and the gallows couldn’t keep up, Britain had a brilliant idea: ship the criminals somewhere sunny. Thus, Australia was born — not from …
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Write about your first computer. That old MS-DOS command prompt. Unfortunately, I can't remember the specific name or make of the computer, just that it had a dark screen and then switched to Windows 3, and things just snowballed from there.
There is something profoundly un-British about the current political and legal sojourn being embarked upon by sections of the UK right. Britain, the land of habeas corpus, the rule of law, and stiff-upper-lip proceduralism, is now flirting with the idea that international law is an optional extra—like heated seats in a base-model Ford Fiesta. Nice …
“If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.” In Nigeria, this is not a philosophical warning. It is a daily news bulletin. The elections of Monday Okpebholo in Edo State and Ahmed Usman Ododo in Kogi State are not isolated …
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If America’s Founding Fathers could rise from their graves today, they’d probably look around, see Project 2025, and immediately beg to be reinterred. After all, this is exactly why they built a divided government — not to frustrate progress, but to keep one man’s ambitions from becoming a national weather event. Unfortunately, those constitutional levees …
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