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English Psychotherapist/Psychologist living in Scotland, interested in everything & working for a better world.
"Remember your humanity, and forget the rest"
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Meanwhile, The Times does its level best to excuse their racist protégé. “Farage has long been dogged by allegations of racism, but there is almost no evidence that he has used slurs in his adult life.” As if that’s the tell. Rather than the brazen prejudice and far right agenda he represents.
Extracts: Does it matter how Nigel Farage treated his classmates when he was a teenager at Dulwich College in the 1970s and 1980s? Last week the Emmy-winning filmmaker Peter Ettedgui, 61, the grandson of refugees from NaziGermany,claimed the Reform UK leader had targeted him with racist verbal abuse while they were at school. According to his account Farage would growl into his ear that "Hitler was right or say "gas them" with a hiss to emulate the sound of gas chambers. "It was vicious and it was persistent," Ettedgui said he had decided to speak publicly because Farage, whose party is I points ahead in the polls, has never fully addressed allegations of racist be-haviour as a schoolboy. Now, about 20 former students have shared their memories of Farage at school. One Jewish classmate, David Edmonds, now a philosopher and BBC radio programme-maker, said Farage used the words "wogs" and "p****" and “came out with antisemitic tropes". Farage has been dogged by allegations of racism but there is almost no evidence that he has used slurs in his adult life. He was accused of allowing the "mask to slip" when he said in 2014 that he would feel uncomfortable if Romanians moved in next door. Asked what the difference was between Romanians and Germans, he said "you know what the difference is", later putting his comment down to tiredness. His parties have faced storms over their hosting of bigoted can-didates. At the most recent general election one candidate referred to a group of black people as "baboons", while another said asylum seekers had it "in their DNA to lie", The party blamed its vetting company for allowing unsuitable candidates to stand. Some have wondered why Farage has chosen to be so defensive about his schoolboy behaviour, with the Spectator journalist Jonathan Sacerdoti ask-ing: "Why can't he just grow up and say sorry?" Sir Sadiq Khan, the Labour mayor of London, said: "Being called the P word at that age doesn't just hurt you, it changes you.
November 29, 2025 at 9:30 AM