502. How Nigel Farage Gets Away With It (Question Time)
The Rest Is Politics
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šļø 19 February 2026
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| 0:12.4 | How is Farage getting away with so many lies? Breaches of electoral law, Russian interference, foreign funding from billionaires and crypto, deeply worrying |
| 0:22.2 | and pretty authoritarian, Orban, Magistyle anti-women's rights and abortion gender, violent |
| 0:28.3 | rhetoric, close ties to convicted criminals. He just gets away with again and again and again and |
| 0:33.7 | again. People assume that Farage is a bit of a bullshitting rogue and therefore when |
| 0:38.7 | all this stuff happens it's sort of rolled into the general picture. Trump created a media |
| 0:43.3 | landscape that gives up on proper scrutiny and I think we're seeing the same develop with |
| 0:47.6 | Farage. This is a network and Farage is fundamental to that network. I just wish our bloody |
| 0:52.9 | media would grow up a bit and start to |
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