Press Revives Nigel Farage ‘Racism’ Claims From When He Was 13

The British press is having a field day digging up schoolyard stories about Nigel Farage.

Several former pupils from decades ago now claim the Reform UK leader said offensive things as a teenager at Dulwich College.

The Guardian tracked down contemporaries who accuse Farage, now 61, of racist and antisemitic comments as a schoolboy in the 1970s, allegations the Reform boss firmly denies.

The Guardian is famously very sensitive to spotting racism everywhere.

This is the paper that once suggested the “phallic necktie” is an outdated symbol of white male rule and has run pieces claiming gardening and hiking can reinforce racist structures.

So it’s no surprise they’re trawling through the 1977 archives for material over what someone supposedly said aged thirteen.

Accusing political opponents of racism, fascism or “reactionary” tendencies was a well-worn tactic in Soviet political warfare.

Cold War historian Dr. Robert Conquest noted in his book The Great Terror and Reflections on a Ravaged Century that the USSR routinely used moral denunciations, especially accusations of bigotry, to discredit opponents and justify purges by associating them with perceived enemies of the state.

Perhaps the timing has less to do with adolescent banter from half a century ago, and more to do with the fact that voters are now lining up behind Reform…