Nigel Farage and the hysterical right know they’ve lost
Reactionaries are facing irrelevance – on Brexit and multiculturalism – so they are left with only frothy-mouthed rage.
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Jonn Elledge
Jonn Elledge is a freelance journalist and author, formerly assistant editor of the New Statesman. His work includes The Compendium of (Not Quite) Everything: All the Facts You Didn’t Know You Wanted to Know (2021) and Conspiracy: A History of Boll*cks Theories, and How Not to Fall for Them (2022).
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