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  1. Israeli men more likely to consider emigration than women are, poll shows

    Nearly four in 10 Israeli men and one in four Israeli women say the challenges of living in…
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    newsbeep.com/722912/

  2. Twenty Years Late and Several Republics Short: On EJ, Atiku and Nigeria’s Habit of Reheating Cold Corruption by Lawson Akhigbe

    In 1999, Olusegun Obasanjo and Atiku Abubakar rode into Aso Rock together, a presidential double act that Nigerians assumed would age like most political marriages: quietly, then not at all. They survived one term. They won a second in 2003. Then, somewhere in that second term, Obasanjo discovered a constitutional itch that the 1999 Constitution's two term, eight year ceiling on the presidency simply would not scratch. He wanted a third term. Atiku, nursing a presidential ambition of his own and possessed of the inconvenient habit of reading the Constitution literally, said so publicly. The friendship ended there.

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/07/twen

  3. Twenty Years Late and Several Republics Short: On EJ, Atiku and Nigeria’s Habit of Reheating Cold Corruption by Lawson Akhigbe

    In 1999, Olusegun Obasanjo and Atiku Abubakar rode into Aso Rock together, a presidential double act that Nigerians assumed would age like most political marriages: quietly, then not at all. They survived one term. They won a second in 2003. Then, somewhere in that second term, Obasanjo discovered a constitutional itch that the 1999 Constitution's two term, eight year ceiling on the presidency simply would not scratch. He wanted a third term. Atiku, nursing a presidential ambition of his own and possessed of the inconvenient habit of reading the Constitution literally, said so publicly. The friendship ended there.

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/07/twen

  4. Twenty Years Late and Several Republics Short: On EJ, Atiku and Nigeria’s Habit of Reheating Cold Corruption by Lawson Akhigbe

    In 1999, Olusegun Obasanjo and Atiku Abubakar rode into Aso Rock together, a presidential double act that Nigerians assumed would age like most political marriages: quietly, then not at all. They survived one term. They won a second in 2003. Then, somewhere in that second term, Obasanjo discovered a constitutional itch that the 1999 Constitution's two term, eight year ceiling on the presidency simply would not scratch. He wanted a third term. Atiku, nursing a presidential ambition of his own and possessed of the inconvenient habit of reading the Constitution literally, said so publicly. The friendship ended there.

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/07/twen

  5. Twenty Years Late and Several Republics Short: On EJ, Atiku and Nigeria’s Habit of Reheating Cold Corruption by Lawson Akhigbe

    In 1999, Olusegun Obasanjo and Atiku Abubakar rode into Aso Rock together, a presidential double act that Nigerians assumed would age like most political marriages: quietly, then not at all. They survived one term. They won a second in 2003. Then, somewhere in that second term, Obasanjo discovered a constitutional itch that the 1999 Constitution's two term, eight year ceiling on the presidency simply would not scratch. He wanted a third term. Atiku, nursing a presidential ambition of his own and possessed of the inconvenient habit of reading the Constitution literally, said so publicly. The friendship ended there.

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/07/twen

  6. Twenty Years Late and Several Republics Short: On EJ, Atiku and Nigeria’s Habit of Reheating Cold Corruption by Lawson Akhigbe

    In 1999, Olusegun Obasanjo and Atiku Abubakar rode into Aso Rock together, a presidential double act that Nigerians assumed would age like most political marriages: quietly, then not at all. They survived one term. They won a second in 2003. Then, somewhere in that second term, Obasanjo discovered a constitutional itch that the 1999 Constitution's two term, eight year ceiling on the presidency simply would not scratch. He wanted a third term. Atiku, nursing a presidential ambition of his own and possessed of the inconvenient habit of reading the Constitution literally, said so publicly. The friendship ended there.

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/07/twen

  7. 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-

  8. 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-

  9. 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-

  10. 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-

  11. 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-

  12. Should your political representatives be allowed to put another country before your country, including when this is against your and your country’s interests?

    (For example, as an American, would/do you approve of your representatives to put Israel before the US?)

    #nationality #loyalty #citizenship

  13. A Trillion-Dollar Economy, But Whose Nigeria? By Lawson Akhigbe

    President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his APC government have proclaimed an ambition to build a one-trillion-dollar Nigerian economy.

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/06/a-tr

  14. A Trillion-Dollar Economy, But Whose Nigeria? By Lawson Akhigbe

    President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his APC government have proclaimed an ambition to build a one-trillion-dollar Nigerian economy.

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/06/a-tr

  15. A Trillion-Dollar Economy, But Whose Nigeria? By Lawson Akhigbe

    President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his APC government have proclaimed an ambition to build a one-trillion-dollar Nigerian economy.

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/06/a-tr

  16. A Trillion-Dollar Economy, But Whose Nigeria? By Lawson Akhigbe

    President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his APC government have proclaimed an ambition to build a one-trillion-dollar Nigerian economy.

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/06/a-tr

  17. A Trillion-Dollar Economy, But Whose Nigeria? By Lawson Akhigbe

    President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his APC government have proclaimed an ambition to build a one-trillion-dollar Nigerian economy.

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/06/a-tr

  18. Reform UK’s Brexit immigration impact

    Reform UK’s perspective on Brexit and immigration is central to its identity: Brexit was meant to deliver control over borders and lower overall migration, but post-2016 (especially post-2021) governments primarily Conservative, failed to use that control effectively, leading to a non-EU migration surge that the party labels the “Boriswave.” Reform argues this undermined the Brexit promise, strained public services, housing, wages, and cultural cohesion, and necessitates far tougher policies.

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/08/28/refo

  19. Reform UK and others – Immigration Policy Compared

    Reform UK’s immigration policies stand out as the most restrictive among major UK parties, emphasizing a sharp reduction in both legal and illegal migration, prioritisation of British citizens, and radical enforcement measures. They position immigration as a core driver of housing shortages, NHS strain, wage suppression, cultural change, and public service overload.

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/08/28/refo

  20. 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

  21. Kemi Badenoch’s maiden speech in the Commons 

    I am also burdened by the weight of expectation. You see, Madam Deputy Speaker, Saffron Walden has not had a maiden speech since Rab Butler’s in 1929. He held three of the great offices of state, but I am most proud that, as a Conservative Minister, he introduced the Education Act 1944, which gave every British child a statutory right to free secondary education.

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/08/19/kemi

  22. The Invisible Invasion: Britain’s Immigration Panic and the Arithmetic It Cannot Face By Lawson Akhigbe

    Black people account for roughly four percent of the population of England and Wales. More of them are in the EastEnders cast than are arriving on the asylum route in any given year. Yet Britain has contrived to make this the defining political question of the age. We should talk about that.

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

  23. 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-

  24. A quotation from Henry Commager

    We are shocked when we see educators, timid before criticism and confused about first principles, betray their trust. And we wonder what can be that "philosophy of education" which believes that young people can be trained to the duties of citizenship by wrapping their minds in cotton wool.

    Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
    Essay (1947-09), “Who Is Loyal to America?” sec. 1, Harper’s Magazine, Vol. 195, No. 1168

    More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…

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  25. A quotation from Aristotle

    For of course it is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
     
    [οὐ γὰρ ἴσως ταὐτὸν ἀνδρί τ᾽ ἀγαθῷ εἶναι καὶ πολίτῃ παντί.]

    Aristotle (384-322 BC) Greek philosopher
    Nicomachean Ethics [Ἠθικὰ Νικομάχεια], Book 5, ch. 2 (5.2.11) / 1130b.29 (c. 325 BC) [tr. Thomson (1953)]

    Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/aristotle/74914/

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  26. A quotation from Aristotle

    It is manifestly possible to be a good citizen without possessing the goodness that constitutes a good man.
     
    [ὅτι μὲν οὖν ἐνδέχεται πολίτην ὄντα σπουδαῖον μὴ κεκτῆσθαι τὴν ἀρετὴν καθ᾽ ἣν σπουδαῖος ἀνήρ, φανερόν.]

    Aristotle (384-322 BC) Greek philosopher
    Politics [Πολιτικά], Book 3, ch. 4 / 1276b.34 [tr. Rackham (1932)]

    Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/aristotle/1341/

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