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Why I Now Own £500 Picture of Nigel Farage

On the price of getting it wrong, learning how to write properly, and why shouting on the internet doesn’t count as journalism.

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Nov 05, 2025
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In July 2023, on a stiflingly hot day on my way back home from the office, I made a decision that I would usually reserve for a sleepless night at 23:47 in the evening - I opened a Twitter account so I could anonymously shout at politicians without terrifying my actual friends.

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In that moment, that was the plan. The wh…

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