Jonathan Coe
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 4 Jul
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Well, it's a kind of constant background noise that you can't really ignore.
And the volatility that has characterized British politics for the last 10 years, really, ever since the Brexit referendum, really makes a deep psychological difference to life here, I think.
Yeah, it's amazing how Mr. Farage manages to find these kind of rhetorical maneuvers to make out that he and his supporters are always the kind of victims and would always have done things right if only they were allowed to.
I mean, alarmingly, we might get the chance to have that put to the test in a few years' time if, you know, if, God forbid, reform are allowed to form a government system.
The thing that astonishes me about the support, the groundswell of support for Nigel Farage is that he's never governed anything in his life.
You know, his stock in trade is shouting from the sidelines and complaining and saying that, you know, everything is being done wrong and he would do it right.
But he never tells us how.
So, you know, we may get a chance to find out exactly what he would do before too long.
It's always hard to know how far these things are cutting through and whether it's clear that he has major questions to answer about his financial affairs.
And, you know, when you consider the outrage that Kiyosama was subjected to for, what was it, taking some cups of free football tickets to an Arsenal game and a few clothes, I think.
It does seem kind of extraordinary when you read the kind of sums that are involved in reform and Mr. Farage's donations.
Yeah, I think this is a problem.
And, you know, sometimes I think that instead of talking all the time about the rise of populism, we should be talking about the rise of simplism, which is a facet of populism, really.
And the idea that, you know, if politicians try to present events to us as nuanced and complicated, then they're really just trying to pull the wool over our eyes.
And everything, in fact, is very simple.
And, you know, if only people had the...
had the guts to get on with it then these problems could be solved you know i think that's a very dangerous point of view because reality is incredibly complex and the political problems facing us all are very intractable and complex even for me who makes a kind of profession of it trying to keep up with everything that is happening politically is a challenge
It's more a question of just standing back and letting the figures themselves do it, really.
You know, because, I mean, Trump is self-sacrificing.
Boris Johnson, when he was prime minister in the UK, was self-sacrificing as well.
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