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It’s easier than you think to get the measure of Kemi Badenoch – just ask around in Nigeria

19.12.2024 10

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Nels Abbey

Ed Sheeran, Fuse ODG: do they know they’re dead right about Band Aid? Africa needs more than a singalong

Hey y’all: listen up to the chartbusting, pop-pickin’, time-addled DJ: “Yes indeed, Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas is back with a...

19.11.2024 40

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Why white working-class Britons should fight to secure colonial slavery reparations

So it’s a “no” to reparations, yet again. No to repairing the damage done by the gravest and longest-sustained of human rights abuses, says Keir...

28.10.2024 50

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When a Heinz advert features racist stereotypes to sell pasta sauce, it’s vital to speak out. So I did

It’s Black History Month, one dedicated to reclaiming narratives. It also happens to be a month before the 140th anniversary of the plotting phase...

08.10.2024 30

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A question bugged me: what would I say if I met the talented Mr Kwarteng? Here’s how that turned out

When the chips are down, the pen is a little dry or I’ve needed a cheap laugh from an unforgiving audience, over the best part of the past 14 years...

24.08.2024 20

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Hop, skip, jump and enchant the electorate – the Ed Davey doctrine was a stroke of genius

There is a remarkably thin line between novel and novelty. In the past six weeks, Ed Davey, a serial political campaigning rule violator who just...

05.07.2024 20

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Britain’s millionaires are fleeing. Good night and good luck, I say

Dear Mr and & Mrs Loadsadosh, I see you are leaving us. According to the people whose job it is to count our resident millionaires (proper...

21.06.2024 80

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Drake v Kendrick Lamar’s rap beef has turned very ugly – who is benefiting from such a spectacle?

The sight of two (or more) people tearing chunks out of each other is one of humanity’s first and most enduring forms of entertainment. The sheer...

09.05.2024 50

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What do you call rapper J Cole apologising to Kendrick Lamar? A modern business masterclass

Did you hear the news? Rapper J Cole fell out with rapper Kendrick Lemar. Then he apologised. It made headlines all over the world and, for the...

10.04.2024 10

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Kemi Badenoch should value diversity schemes. Attacking them does wonders for her career

The lady is for turning. And contradicting too. The lady is Kemi Badenoch, the business secretary, minister for women and equalities, and now the...

22.03.2024 20

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Guardian Opinion cartoon Martin Rowson on Tory attempts to discredit Labour – cartoon

10.02.2024 40

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Take a bow, Edward Enninful – your Vogue changed the face of fashion

The scene is May or maybe June 2008, PO (pre-Obama). I was toiling away at my desk while dreaming of escaping my finance job in the City of London to...

09.02.2024 9

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Do I feel sorry for Kwasi Kwarteng as he departs frontline politics? No – and nor does anyone with a mortgage

Is it wrong to kick a person who’s down and out of luck? What about someone who has needlessly saddled you with a monthly mortgage increase of...

07.02.2024 30

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Harry and Meghan in Jamaica are soft-power dynamite. Britain is left with kryptonite William and Kate

A popular Nigerian adage says “the cow never knows the value of its tail until it is chopped off”. In many tragic ways, this speaks to today’s...

26.01.2024 10

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Moments of hope Success is contagious - so I’m rooting for the African countries throwing off European rule

The 140th anniversary of a critical moment in human history will be marked on 15 November 2024. And the odds are that it will conveniently go...

02.01.2024 60

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Maybe we should be able to laugh at anything. But slavery?

Is a “comedy about slavery” desirable, or even possible? And if not, what about satire: is that an applicable lens through which to consider one...

13.12.2023 5

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Benjamin Zephaniah was a genuine radical – I’ll never forget the time I spent with him

Respect for your elders is a pillar of Blackness. This means that in most – if not all – African communities, whether continental, in the...

07.12.2023 4

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