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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 8

The Guardian

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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 8

The Guardian

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

10.02.2024 40

The Guardian

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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 6

The Guardian

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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 3

The Guardian

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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 30

The Guardian

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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 30

The Guardian

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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 7

The Guardian

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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 20

The Guardian

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Guardian Opinion cartoon Martin Rowson on Tory shunts – cartoon

03.10.2023 2

The Guardian

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Britain’s the best place to be Black, says Kemi Badenoch. But ask yourself: is it as good as being white?

I n the age of Brexit, the cost of living crisis, high inflation, high interest rates, high taxation, low growth, climate crisis and serious...

03.10.2023 3

The Guardian

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We need to talk about ‘racism laundering’: what it is, who benefits – and how to be vigilant

I t is a sad aspect of public life that a quick route to success and notoriety for minorities in the UK is to express the most reactionary opinions...

19.09.2023 10

The Guardian

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