Tag: Kemi Badenoch

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In early April, a young Londoner called Finbar Sullivan was pointlessly stabbed to death in the suburb of Primrose Hill, allegedly by a pair of non-whites called Oliuwadamilola Ogunyankinnu and Khalid Abdulqadir, whose very names evoke the final faint moans of a dying alphabet. Unlike his reported attackers, Finbar Sullivan came from a well-off, well-adjusted, upper-middle-class white family: his grandfather was a Hollywood cinematographer on movies like Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Elsewhere in London during this same time-span, it turned out the real-life Planet of the Apes had already dawned. (more…)

Kemi Badenoch

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This year’s run-up to the British General Election is reminiscent of 1997, when Tony Blair was so spooked by the enthusiastic backing he was getting from the media that he warned his party about “triumphalism” in the weeks leading up to the ballot. That election was a forgone conclusion, and this year’s looks much the same. (more…)

Kemi Badenoch, ironically the only true conservative in the lot.

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After Boris Johnson’s fall from grace, or whatever state you would describe his ineffective premiership as, the runners and riders for the inevitable Conservative leadership election immediately started jostling in the stalls. Almost all were well-known names in Westminster and beyond. Favorite — and extraordinarily wealthy after marrying into an Indian industrial family — Rishi Sunak had been Chancellor of the Exchequer; Priti Patel was, apparently, Home Secretary; and the weaselly Jeremy Hunt slunk around as Health Secretary. (more…)