It is tempting, sometimes, to simply rage against modernity and all its works. The political right is particularly vulnerable to that instinct, opposing as most of us do, radical change and being prone as we are to nostalgia for the gentler virtues of the past. The problem is that this can sometimes manifest as loathing for things people value and enjoy.
Nigel Farage has been by some distance the most successful right-wing populist on either of what we might call “these islands” since Margaret Thatcher. He is now poised, if he doesn’t mess it up, to become the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom – an event that would cause absolute shockwaves both across the water and here in our own little hermit kingdom where the prospect of right-wing populism is viewed by the great and the good with all the enthusiasm that they would muster for an Ebola outbreak in Rathgar.
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