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Reform UK Doesn’t Just Have a Racism Problem - It Has a Racism Infrastructure

Why focusing on Farage’s past misses how racism is incentivised, normalised and repeatedly rewarded in the present

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Dec 23, 2025
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Accusations and allegations of racism, Islamophobia, anti-semitism and xenophobia have been, it’s fair to say, swirling1 around Nigel Farage and his party over the past… well, since UKIP 2.0… I mean, Reform UK spawned into existence in 2021.

To characterise the steady flow of these as a “drip feed” would be to understate to the point of irresponsibility. …

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