Is Nigel Farage a Man of the People?

Is Nigel Farage a man of the people?

People are to be found wherever you look, but “the people” is a different matter entirely. It’s a concept, not a reality: rather like “the masses”. Most men and women don’t see themselves as part of this faceless mob, but they might well regard others as part of it. As the cultural thinker Raymond Williams put it, masses are other people. In ancient Athens, democracy meant government by the people, but the word demos had a resonance of the commo…

‘Man of the people’ Nigel Farage skips MP duties for day at the races

Nigel Farage was a no-show in Parliament again yesterday.  Dressed in a tailcoat and top hat, the Reform UK leader was pictured smiling between three security guards as he attended the Royal Ascot. The privately educated former stockbroker took a day off doing the job he was elected to do, missing parliamentary business to do so.  But this isn’t the first time he’s been awol this week. On Tuesday, he missed multiple votes relating to abolishing …