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  1. Twenty arrested and Battle of Britain memorial vandalised at anti-Israel march in central London

    Commemorative wreaths of poppies at the foot of the memorial, erected to commemorate the defence of Britain during…
    #EuropeSays #Britain #Europe #EU #anti-Israelprotests #CentralLondon #MetropolitanPolice
    europesays.com/britain/141654/

  2. Twenty arrested and Battle of Britain memorial vandalised at anti-Israel march in central London

    Commemorative wreaths of poppies at the foot of the memorial, erected to commemorate the defence of Britain during…
    #EuropeSays #Headlines #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Israel #anti-Israelprotests #centralLondon #MetropolitanPolice
    europesays.com/iran/324948/

  3. David Cameron: The Prime Minister Who Kept Proving Enoch Powell Right

    Enoch Powell famously observed that “all political careers end in failure.” Whether one agrees with the man or not, the aphorism has endured because politics is an unforgiving profession. Few modern British politicians illustrate it more vividly than David Cameron.

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/10/03/davi

  4. Burnham’s top cabinet ministers divided over rejoining EU

    Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today.…
    #Europe #EU #Arrival #CentralLondon #colorimage #DowningStreet #EdMiliband #ENGLAND #EuropeanUnion #horizontal #London(England) #people #Photography #Politics #PoliticsandGovernment #ShabanaMahmood #twopeople #UK
    europesays.com/europe/150662/

  5. Kemi Badenoch and the economy: a plan stuck in the Tory comfort zone by The Guardian Editorial

    To outlast a prime minister always counts as some kind of achievement for an opposition leader, although Kemi Badenoch cannot claim credit for Sir Keir Starmer’s downfall. Sir Keir’s wounds were mostly self-inflicted. To the extent that opposition pressure was involved, it was electoral threats from Reform UK and the Green party that stoked Labour party frustration to a regicidal pitch. The Tory leader’s role was largely as a spectator.

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/28/kemi

  6. Shares for the Many, Not the Few: What Dangote’s IPO Owes to Margaret Thatcher, and What It Might Teach Her Country by Lawson Akhigbe

    The theory behind all of it, gas, telecoms, water, rail, was called popular capitalism, and it rested on a wager: that if enough ordinary Britons held shares directly, they would develop a stake, literal and psychological, in the fiscal health of the nation. Capitalism would stop being something done to people and start being something done by them.

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/24/shar

  7. NATIONS, TRIBES, AND THE GRAMMAR OF EMPIRE: On why the Scots get a parliament and the Yoruba get an anthropologist By Lawson Akhigbe

    Scotland has a parliament, a flag, a football team that loses with tremendous dignity, and roughly the population of Lagos’s Ikeja Local Government Area. The Yoruba nation and I use the word advisedly has an empire’s worth of history, a written and oral constitutional tradition running from Ile-Ife through the Oyo Mesi and the Alaafin’s checks and balances, a diaspora spanning three continents, and something in the region of forty million native speakers. One of these is routinely described in the Financial Times as a nation debating its constitutional future. The other is routinely described, by the same publication, as a tribe engaged in an ethnic dispute. I invite the reader to spot the empirical difference. I have been looking for thirty years and have found only prejudice wearing a monocle.

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/24/nati

  8. Man convicted for Westminster murder

    A man who killed 26-year-old Farmanullah Sherzad in Westminster has been convicted of murder. Sulaiman Tajzai, 18 (01.01.08),…
    #London #Britain #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #Westminster #centralLondon #Convictions&sentencings #murder
    europesays.com/gbr/london/3048

  9. Woman accused of fatally stabbing City banker partner exchanged intimate messages with another man, court told

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    #London #Britain #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #CityofLondon #2024 #centralLondon #ColorImage #criminal #February #GeneralView #Horizontal #HumanInterest #London-England #OldBailey #Photography #SocialIssues
    europesays.com/gbr/london/2986

  10. The World’s Oldest Rolls-Royce Just Won Pebble Beach. The Real Test Is 60 Miles to Brighton.

    On the morning of November 1, chassis 20154 will pull away from central London and attempt sixty miles…
    #EuropeSays #Britain #Europe #EU #Rolls-Royce #Brighton #CentralLondon #CharlesRolls #HenryRoyce #LondontoBrighton #PebbleBeach #Restoration #TerryBramall
    europesays.com/britain/129472/

  11. Burnham’s Strategy: Manchesterism Meets the Politics of Looking Busy

    Andy Burnham did not inherit a government so much as a stage set. After years of mayoral apprenticeship in Greater Manchester, he arrived in Downing Street with a ready-made philosophy called “Manchesterism” and a clear preference for the photographable over the structural. The high-street crackdown is not an aberration. It is the strategy in miniature.

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/18/burn

  12. How to Pay Less Tax Than Your Barista: A Billionaire’s Guide by Lawson Akhigbe

    If you open your paycheck, you will notice a rather tragic recurring character named "Tax Deductions." Before you even get a chance to squander your earnings on overpriced oat milk or electricity, the government takes its slice right off the top. Forty percent, thirty percent, twenty percent, whatever bracket you land in, the tax collector behaves like an eager bouncer checking bags at the door. You earned a salary, so you pay up. Non-negotiable.

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/12/how-

  13. Austerity: Britain’s Longest-Running Political Fancy Dress by Lawson Akhigbe

    There is an old British habit that refuses to die. When the public finances look awkward, someone reaches for the national costume box, pulls out the Union Jack, and declares that the only patriotic course is to ask the people with the least to tighten their belts a little more. The word of the hour is always “austerity.” The justification is always necessity. The result is almost always the same.

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/11/aust

  14. The British Right and the Great Social Sorting Experiment by Lawson Akhigbe

    It wants to celebrate Britain as the greatest country in the world while simultaneously proposing policies that would make large parts of Britain less British.

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/11/the-

  15. When “National Security” Becomes a Weapon Against Social Security by Lawson Akhigbe

    There is an old British political habit which deserves rather more scrutiny than it usually receives: when governments want the public to accept an uncomfortable policy, they wrap it in the Union Jack and call it national security.

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/10/when

  16. Is David Cameron the Worst Thing to Happen to Modern Britain? By Lawson Akhigbe

    Some political leaders leave office and quietly retreat into the background. Others spend their retirement writing memoirs that nobody reads and giving speeches that nobody remembers.

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/10/is-d

  17. The Union Jack Won’t Fix Britain: Farage, Braverman and the Politics of National Nostalgia by Lawson Akhigbe

    When a political movement cannot quite explain where Britain should go, it apparently finds comfort in explaining where Britain used to be.

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/07/the-

  18. Who Voted for Lord Denning? – When the Street Cross-Examined the Bench by Lawson Akhigbe

    The slogan gained prominence in the aftermath of the Birmingham pub bombings and the subsequent conviction of six Irish men the now infamous Birmingham Six. Their case quickly became a lightning rod for allegations of coerced confessions, police misconduct, and a justice system more interested in closure than correctness.

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/02/who-

  19. ANDY BURNHAM MUST GIVE BRITAIN AN IDEOLOGY, NOT ANOTHER MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT’S POWERPOINT by Lawson Akhigbe

    There was something important about Andy Burnham's intervention at Prime Minister's Questions. Not simply because of what he said, but because of what it appeared to recognise: Britain has not merely been badly governed. Britain has been travelling in the wrong ideological direction for decades.

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/02/andy

  20. Back to Basics, Rebranded: Burnham’s High Streets and the Politics of Looking Busy by Lawson Akhigbe

    John Major's government never intended "Back to Basics" to become a punchline. Launched in 1993 as a pitch for moral and civic renewal, family values, personal responsibility, respect for the old certainties, it was retail politics in the purest sense: cheap to announce, easy to photograph, and entirely disconnected from the actual machinery of governing a mid-sized post-imperial economy adjusting to the ERM's wreckage. Section 28 sat quietly in the background as inherited scaffolding for this mood music, and the Education Act 1993's sex-education clauses supplied a fresh, deniable coat of paint. None of it required legislative heavy lifting. All of it signalled seriousness to an audience that wanted reassurance more than reform. The scheme collapsed, memorably, when half the cabinet turned out to be failing the basics they were instructed to return to.

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/02/back

  21. Born Free, Housed First: Reform UK and the Return of the Birth Certificate as Political Document by Lawson Akhigbe

    Reform UK has now taken that quiet administrative habit and turned it into an actual policy platform, delivered at a press conference rather than buried in a PDF. Deputy leader Richard Tice has confirmed the party will prioritise British-born workers under 35 for social housing, alongside military veterans and married couples with children, should Reform enter government. The pitch comes wrapped in an infrastructure promise, 50,000 affordable homes a year, financed, the party insists, without new taxes or borrowing, which is the political equivalent of promising a birthday cake that requires no oven, no flour and no birthday.

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/08/25/born

  22. The People Did Vote for Mass Immigration – Through Parliament by Lawson Akhigbe

    One of the most persistent slogans of Britain’s political far right is the claim that “the people did not vote for mass immigration.” It is a phrase repeated endlessly in television studios, social media posts, and political rallies. It sounds persuasive. It sounds democratic. It is also fundamentally wrong.

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/08/19/the-

  23. The ICC’s Selective Blindfold: Sharp Justice for Africans, Soft Landing for the Powerful by Lawson Akhigbe

    For years the International Criminal Court has operated like a colonial-era court with better stationery and a more solemn logo. The docket groaned under the weight of African cases while the architects of certain adventures in Libya, Iraq, and beyond somehow remained mysteriously unburdened by the same enthusiastic pursuit of accountability. The rule of law, we were solemnly told, was universal. The application, it turned out, was rather more exclusive.

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/08/14/the-

  24. UK anti-immigration social media accounts traced to Sri Lanka and Vietnam ByMarianna Spring

    The "Great British People" Facebook page, which purports to be from Yorkshire, has had 1.3 million views for its latest video of an elderly white British man crying about his pension. Other videos show reporters discussing "the overwhelming scale of mass immigration" and asking viewers if they miss "the Britain we used to know".

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/08/14/uk-a

  25. Four men stabbed in central London as woman arrested

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    #incidents #stabbingincidents #centrallondon #policeinvestigation

  26. Role in British Empire finance

    The City of London (the Square Mile) was the indispensable financial engine of the British Empire.

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/07/09/role

  27. Absolutely disgusting and embarrassing that #London police are happy to arrest anti-genocide protesters by the hundreds while leaving the fucking fash alone, so long as they stay on one side of the road while they're intimidating people who've come here trying to find safety.

    Fuck off, racists. We don't want you.
    #CanaryWharf #IsleaOfDogs #rightToAsylum #fuckTheFash #ACAB #metropolitanpolice #centralLondon #racism #terrorism

  28. 𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬

    ✧ London King's Cross railway station ✧

    London King's Cross railway station is a passenger railway terminus in the London Borough of Camden, on the edge of Central London. It is in the London station group, one of the busiest railway stations in the United Kingdom, and the southern terminus of the East Coast Main ...

    #NorthEastEngland #LondonBorough #CentralLondon #KingCross #London #Wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_K

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