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Onye Ajuju

@onyeajuju.bsky.social
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Public policy. Geopolitics. UK. Nigeria. Human Development. Markets. Healthcare. RT≠Endorsement. Tweets to stir thoughts/conversations. Tweets ≠Endorsement😊

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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Yep, EU money apparently helped fund Brexit www.ft.com/content/e637... Nigel Farage’s Brexit rallies were funded from the EU budget
ft.com
Nigel Farage’s Brexit rallies were funded from the EU budget
European monies paid for anti-immigrant posters during ‘Say No to EU’ tour
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
What an extraordinary man, Mr Nathan Newby! news.sky.com/story/how-a-...
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How a patient stepped out for a vape and foiled a suicide bomber at Leeds hospital
It could have been a case of mass murder, but one man had the presence of mind to convince a terror attacker to abandon his plan.
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
There are no depths which the Labour govt would not plumb. Celebrating opening of bank branches by Nigerian banks and using it to launder the image of an election rigger with a well know criminal past who is getting a Royal treat😭 www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Hundreds of new UK jobs as Nigerian companies confirm millions in investment
Hundreds of new UK jobs are set to be created as Nigerian companies scale up their operations, reinforcing Britain's position as a leading global business hub.
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Britain is a serious country but in their fecklessness, this generation of leaders and particularly this labour govt are extraordinarily skilled at turning it into a running joke www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
bbc.com
Maccabi Tel Aviv will not accept Aston Villa Europa League tickets
Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv say they will not accept any ticket allocation from Aston Villa should the decision to ban their supporters from next month's Europa League match be overturned.
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
www.ft.com/content/2b4b... We are prone to hoping that the good chap leader makes up for the problems of our institutions and to hope that those same institutions protect us from the worst instincts of the terrible chap. Trumps illustrates the folly of the latter
ft.com
Trump and the return of Great Man theory
The president vindicates an unfashionable view of how history works
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Practically all British steel towns voted for Brexit. Isn’t it time to let them face the consequences of their political choice? Why must the rest of us also reeling from the impact of their poor choices continue to subsidise it?
bbc.co.uk
EU steel tariff hike threatens 'biggest crisis' for UK industry
The EU is the destination for 78% of steel products made in the UK for overseas markets.
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Even more reason for Trump to invade Venezuela 😂 news.sky.com/story/nobel-...
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Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado named Nobel Peace Prize winner
Venezuela's opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has won the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
So, Pete Hegseth called America’s generals and admirals back to Quantico to fat-shame them?
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
So, the free speech lobby only ever wanted free speech for the far-right?
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
It’s entirely appropriate that the funeral (if indeed it turned out to be one) of the Conservative and Unionist Party is being presided over by an immigrant and a woman no less. It’s a befitting collapse from within under the weight of its own contradictions
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Harvard University said Monday it will resist the Trump administration’s demands to change its governance structure to stop antisemitism on campus, saying the government is overstepping its authority www.wsj.com/us-news/educ... Finally, someone grows a pair but how long before they capitulate?
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
This time, the North Koreans might be airlifted by Russia’s new ally, the United States. news.sky.com/story/north-...
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Ukraine war latest: North Korea 'sending more troops' to Russia
South Korea's spy agency says North Korea appears to have sent more troops to Russia to join its fight against Ukraine. Meanwhile, Keir Starmer is in Washington for talks with Donald Trump after repea...
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
How’s Pap test still being done in Canada? The UK switched over nearly 10 years ago
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
America has a new circle of friends. news.sky.com/story/europe...
news.sky.com
US joins Russia, North Korea and Belarus to vote against UN resolution on Ukraine war
Two motions were passed by the UN today as the world marks the third anniversary of Russia's invasion - with the US voting against one and abstaining on another.
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
If America is abandoning Europe, isn’t it time to leave the Americans to manage their Pacific problem? ukdefencejournal.org.uk/british-airc...
ukdefencejournal.org.uk
British aircraft carrier goes to sea
HMS Prince of Wales has put to sea for pre-deployment training ahead of a British Carrier Strike Group deployment to the Pacific later this year.
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
So much has been set riding on Keir Starmer’s US trip that he is bound to disappoint. Europe will have to either face up to to the decisions it needs to make or keep doodling while the rug is pulled from under its feet.
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Perhaps the most confusing thing about the Trump foreign policy is not its abandonment of any pretensions of values. What’s most disconcerting (and consequential) is a successful super power turning revisionist against the world order it has spent decades building and over which it presides.
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Out of office, Michael Gove discovers realism and dishes out generous advice to Labour…on how to clean up the mess he and his chums created in govt www.spectator.co.uk/article/get-...
spectator.co.uk
Get real: the harsh lessons of our new world disorder
Sir Roger Scruton may not be the Prime Minister’s favourite author. Apparently Keir Starmer prefers Victoria Hislop. But as he prepares to travel to Washington next week, the PM could scarcely spend h...
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Europe? Is there any such thing as “Europe”? on.ft.com/4355G37 European countries clash over sending troops to Ukraine
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Should Trump decide to make good on his threat to annex Canada, all the evidence suggests that the overwhelming majority of Americans would be no better than Russians who support Vladimir Putin.
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
At what point would Americans realise that this is no longer funny?
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
It doesn’t seem to matter what inanity Trump and his circus come up with, the UK right wing media is so far up the Trump wazoo that they’d write a rousing hagiography to anything. www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...
spectator.co.uk
The audacity of Trump’s Gaza plan
Some moments in history demand recognition, not just for their weight in the present but for the seismic shifts they herald. The Trump-Netanyahu press conference was one such moment – not a perfunctor...
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
news.sky.com/story/trump-...
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Trump threatens Iran would be 'obliterated' if it assassinates him - as he signs 'tough' directive against Tehran
The president has also stopped funding for the UN's relief agency for Gaza as he claims Palestinians have "no alternative" but to leave the strip.
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Here’s hoping Europe will have the backbone to hit back hard. It may be time for a global alliance against a rogue American govt. As America’s institutions and media capitulate, that may be the only hope to rein in Mr Trump. news.sky.com/story/canada...
news.sky.com
Canada and Mexico hit back with retaliatory tariffs on US as Donald Trump risks trade war
The leaders of Mexico and Canada - two of the US's largest trading partners - have responded to the US president's steep taxes on imports.
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
It’s literally 1984 in America. “Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past” www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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CDC removes gender, equity references in public health material
Large sets of data are being scrubbed of references to transgender and LGBTQ+ people, among others, which could compromise their use in research.
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Playing with DeepSeek 1. Anything uncomfortable to the CCP is “beyond its current scope”
Screenshots showing responses by DeepSeek to prompts about controversial issues in China
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Entirely appropriate to respond thus: LOL! news.sky.com/story/trumps...
news.sky.com
Donald Trump's comments on Gaza trigger tensions with his Arab-American supporters
Mr Trump has suggested that Palestinians in Gaza could be moved to Jordan or Egypt, prompting a strong pushback from a key demographic who voted for him.
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
I don’t know how long they can hold out for but I’m cheering Columbia on…finally someone grows a pair to stand up to the big bully news.sky.com/story/trump-...
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Trump announces 'retaliatory measures' after Colombia refuses to accept deported migrant flight
Donald Trump announced an emergency tariff of 25% on Colombian goods - rising to 50% after one week. Colombia's president then threatened 50% tariffs on US goods in retaliation.
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Dunno how anyone listens to Trump and hears “positive” but never mind
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
This could be the single most consequential decision made by by the short-fingered vulgarian www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...
nytimes.com
Trump Pauses Disbursements to Program Supplying H.I.V. Treatment Worldwide
Pepfar, which is estimated to have delivered lifesaving treatment to as many as 25 million people in 54 countries, faces a funding delay of as long as 180 days.
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
It’s been a minute since unemployment was a political or even economic issue. Mrs Reeves may have opened a Pandora’s box. Even if Labour’s growth policies work, ppl who lost their jobs from these cuts are unlikely to find jobs in the new data centres or building sites news.sky.com/story/sainsb...
news.sky.com
Sainsbury's to cut over 3,000 jobs - with all cafes to close
The chain's 61 remaining in-store cafes are set to close as part of the major overhaul.
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
It’s MAGA’s world out there uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/meta-ad...
uk.finance.yahoo.com
Meta admits some people can’t unfollow Donald Trump on Instagram
Users including Gracie Abrams have said they never asked to follow presidential account – and are unable to stop
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
It’s surreal watching Sergei Lavrov advocating for the sovereignty of the people of Greenland against the onslaught of Donald Trump and America’s newfangled Lebensraum ideology.
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
European govts and voters have spent decades fretting about election interference from Russia and maybe even China. They have been left completely unprepared to fight what is now a rearguard action against interference from an eccentric billionaire in cahoots with the leader of the free world.
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Today, I’ve had seven emails from the kid’s school and five emails from work. It’s clear where I’m needed more. Time to pack in the day job and focus on emails and assignments from school!
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
It used to be assumed that Big Money is a problem almost unique to America’s dysfunctional democracy an ocean away. How many people foresaw this American problem becoming a threat to European democracies?
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The pitiful state of Britain, its media and political leadership: An eccentric US billionaire gets to set the political agenda by his ignorant tweets😢 news.sky.com/story/politi...
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Politics latest: MPs reject Tories' call for new grooming gangs inquiry
Sir Keir Starmer faced Kemi Badenoch at the first PMQs of 2025, against the increasingly incendiary backdrop of a row about grooming gangs largely driven by Elon Musk. The Tories attempted to force a ...
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
The UK’s right wing media prizes ideological affinity over any pretentions of patriotism. Is that normal?
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
I don’t think I remember such extensive house cleaning in American corporations prior to previous changes of govt but my memories only go so far. Some will argue that it reflects how far they’d swung woke before now but did they swing woke to appease the govt? www.semafor.com/article/01/0...
semafor.com
Meta will appoint Republican Joel Kaplan to lead global policy team, as Nick Clegg steps down | Semafor
Big tech shifts right to meet Donald Trump’s Washington.
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
AI with Chinese characteristics🤭
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
The “new normal” is neither new nor normal. news.sky.com/story/trump-...
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Donald Trump threatens to retake Panama Canal - and makes fresh call for US to buy Greenland
The incoming US president said he would not let the crucial waterway - which has been under Panama's control for decades - fall into the "wrong hands".
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Economic growth in developing countries may provide opportunities for the most talented and educated (who wld otherwise migrate) to stay back and thrive. But it would also then enable a far greater number of less educated people to afford to emigrate.
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
When you hear the Chinese and Russians talk about the end of the West’s world order, it sounds preposterous. When you see voters, the media, and leaders in Europe and America working very hard to undermine it, any doubts you would simply vanish. It’s at least the beginning of the end.
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Whither the “Geopolitical” Commission?
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I don’t understand the aim of these scaremongering campaign. The question to ask is, how is it that our govt has left us so vulnerable to Russia? What do politicians gain by advertising this vulnerability, an unusual approach given they’d normally cover things up? news.sky.com/story/russia...
news.sky.com
Russia ready to hit UK with wave of cyber attacks, minister will warn
The UK is "watching Russia", a minister will say, as he warns Moscow is prepared to launch cyber attacks and "won't think twice" about targeting British businesses.
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
theatlantic.com
How the Ivy League Broke America
The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Who would have thought that the Revolution people have lived in fear of on these isles for hundreds of years would start -In Wales -With tractors -By cuddled farmers no less! news.sky.com/video/farmer...
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Farmers protest: Starmer vows to defend budget 'all day long' as farmers slam 'disrespectful' PM
Farmers argue the inheritance tax changes will mean higher food prices, lower food production and having to sell off land to pay for the tax.
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Would it matter if the hospitals are failing for reasons other than leadership such as a shoddy infrastructure? Would sacked managers pitch up in another region and get hired again? League tables to reveal failing NHS trusts www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
League tables to reveal failing NHS trusts
Hospitals in England will be ranked on care and finances, so patients can look for good service.
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Onye Ajuju @onyeajuju.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
One would expect the right wing media to be “patriotic”, nationalist even. Strangely, the UK’s right wing media prioritise their kindred feelings for Trump over any pretensions of patriotism to the UK. They seem all set to cheer any bollocking and pain the UK gets from Trump 2.0. Surreal
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