This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter.

Is there anyone left in Britain who still cannot see the kid-glove treatment Nigel Farage gets from the London media?

Perhaps some poor cave-dwelling hermit has missed the craven, partisan behaviour by the predominantly right-wing press, as well as broadcasters – most specifically the BBC.

If so, proof of the grotesque favouritism has come trotting along in an unusually pleasant form.

Farage got an absolute verbal kicking when he greased into Washington to stick a knife in Britain’s back and bootlick Donald Trump.

For those of us revolted at the special services Britain’s media doles out to Farage, it was instructive.

Farage swaggered into America intending to grass up his own nation with frankly pitiful and demented claims that Britain is the same as “North Korea” when it comes to free speech.

Anyone who thinks that needs carted off to an asylum. Britain has its problems, but North Korea it ain’t.

It’s embarrassing garbage from Twitter’s sewers taken into real life by a wannabe demagogue who doesn’t give a tuppenny cuss for the truth.

Farage was before Congress to give evidence about how terrible Britain has become. Pathetic little squealer. Nothing says ‘patriot’ like lying about your country.

However, Farage didn’t get his way. Democratic representative Jamie Raskin delivered a tongue-lashing to........

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