The Pointlessness of Nigel FarageWhat is culture’s most potent image of pointlessness? There’s Sisyphus rolling a boulder up a hill, only for it to tumble back down again. Or Escher’s staircases, ascending and descending without end. But perhaps we can now add to the lexicon ‘Farage’s byelection’ – a foregone conclusion, seeing as he was always going to win, against a novelty candidate that was intended to stall an investigation into political donations that will now simply pick up where it left off. Well, at least we all had fun along the way. As you may recall, Nigel Farage resigned in a fit of pique, as he faced mounting scrutiny over his finances. A parliamentary standards investigation had been launched into whether he should have registered a £5m gift from crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne, alongside fresh allegations about undeclared support from George Cottrell; an illegitimate campaign cooked up by the brahminical class of Westminster elites, if you take Nigel’s word for it. A “people versus the establishment” byelection (except none of the established parties contested it).
https://novaramedia.com/2026/08/14/the-pointlessness-of-nigel-farage/Hate in the World’s Borough: How the Far-Right Has Flourished in Queens, New YorkQueens natives have played major roles in the recently resurgent far-right movement. For example, the alt-right celebrity Joseph Jordan (pseudonym “Eric Striker”), born in the largely Asian and Latino neighborhood of Flushing, has co-hosted a white supremacist podcast, written for the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer, and participated in the Unite the Right rally. According to a 2019 Southern Poverty Law Center report, Jordan’s parents both have Latin American names, and his family still lives in Flushing. Robert Rundo, co-founder of the Rise Against Movement (RAM), a violent white nationalist group with deep connections to the broader neo-Nazi movement, is also from Flushing. Before RAM, Rundo was in a gang called the Original Flushing Crew when he stabbed a member of an MS-13 affiliate. To produce and distribute clothing and music, RAM started the company Will2Rise, which has provided Queens contact information. Will2Rise now makes merchandise for Active Club, an international movement in which Rundo began to train white sup
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