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The Frank Report LXXIV 

We don’t usually go in for sympathy at The Frank Report, but having had the wisdom tooth from Hell extracted this Thursday, alongside doctor’s orders to lay off the sauce, I’m feeling pretty sorry for myself. Few of us can afford a dip in intelligence, but it’s safe to say I’m now well into negative

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Rwanda: A Stay of Execution?

Heavyweight showdowns rarely live up to their billing, and so it proved during this week’s highly-anticipated Westminster clash, which turned out to be more gunsmoke than gunfight. Despite the tough talk from rebel leader Mark Francois and his posse at the European Research Group, sheriff Sunak has forced them to holster their weapons (at least

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Nihal Arthanayake

Time to Ban Whites at the BBC?

(Photograph: TheAsianAwards, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) When the beknighted multimillionaire Lenny Henry made the claim that black people were underrepresented on television back in 2019 (while simultaneously receiving the ‘Outstanding Achievement Award’ at the South Bank Sky Arts award ceremony), I naïvely suspected he’d bitten off more than he could chew. I should have

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The Frank Report LXXIII 

When dealing with scumbags, ’Hit ‘em where it hurts’ is usually the best policy (whether one favours an attack to the wallet or the more traditional swift knee to the groin), and it certainly proved the right choice this week. As it turns out, University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill was perfectly willing to accept

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Rishi Sunak

Sunak on Borrowed Time?  

It’s easier than you might think to topple a Conservative Prime Minister. All it required in the case of Boris Johnson, was an illicit ménage à trois with Mr Chandon and Mr Kipling; for Liz Truss, it was aggressive tax cuts that spooked the markets. Now it appears Rishi Sunak could be about to fall

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Jail, but Only for White Men

Even if (like me) you know precious little about the law, the chances are you know one thing: Lady Justice is supposed to be blind. Equality before the law is a cornerstone of any functioning democracy, and is vital for social cohesion. Despite what we may have witnessed playing out on the streets of London recently (alongside

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