Tag: culture war
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Why Reform UK Will Never Understand Wales

Wales is not a branch office of Westminster politics. It is a nation with its own civic memory, its own institutional landscape, and its own lived experience of what happens when power is exercised at a distance. Reform UK’s problem is not simply that it is provocative, plenty of parties have been provocative, it is…
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Nigel Farage, the politics of the headline, and the art of moving on

Nigel Farage’s most reliable talent is not governing, nor even organising, it is sensing the national temperature and turning it into a slogan before anyone else. He is a political mood-board, not a builder. He does not cultivate institutions, he cultivates moments. He does not carry arguments through to delivery, he carries them to the…
