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Populism, digital darkness and political self-destruction. The concluding part of my review of the decade.
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A bit like Police Academy 3 it's far darker than the preceding episodes
Proving more divisive than part 1 but we're not in Cats territory
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Otto English
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Boris Johnson's week long holiday with his girlfriend on Mustique in numbers.

2 first class Flights to St Lucia £10,000

2 Transfer flights to Mustique £700

Week long stay private villa £20,000

Total: ca £37k before security

Average UK salary £28,000
That's cheapest first class flights and assuming they've booked in advance
We don't know who paid but I look forward to finding out
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So having created the Brexit Party and raised millions of pounds off ordinary donors, well wishers, prospective MPs and "registered supporters" Nigel Farage sacks his staff and decides on a whim he's going to set up another party.
This venture will fail by the way. He's burnt his bridges.
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This is extraordinary. If you are stupid enough to want to wish Donald Trump Merry Christmas they assume you're mad enough to send him money.
Straight out of the Tommy Robinson fundraising model
Populist politics can be very profitable indeed. At the peak of his power Hitler was making $1 million a year in royalties from "Mein Kampf" sales - equivalent to $12 million today. One of the best selling author of the 30s for an awful book full of paranoid racist nonsense
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