To future generations, the names of toppled Labour strongholds will tell the story of 's tidal wave. It began in Blyth Valley, a former mining area in the North-East that had never before elected a Conservative. It swept through Darlington, Sedgefield and Great Grimsby, Stoke Central and West Bromwich, culminating in that extraordinary moment when Dennis Skinner's seat of Bolsover — Bolsover! — was painted blue. Even in Tory strategists' wildest dreams, they never expected this. The Conservatives' biggest majority since Margaret Thatcher's last victory in 1987, and their biggest share of the vote since 1979. And for Labour's Jeremy…

Few people would have expected that Omoyele Sowore would linger on in the public space after his poor showing at the last presidential election in which he scored less than 10,000 votes. Sowore wanted to be our President. Nigerians elected Muhammadu Buhari instead. Sowore retreated to his base in the United States where his media outfit, the Sahara Reporters, operates from New York. Then he decided to torment the winner with his call for a revolution. Few people took him seriously, not even the people of his home local government area in Ondo State. But then Buhari took Sowore seriously…