That Nigel Farage seems to have been a nasty little racist and anti-Semite in his teenage years is, despite his denials, pretty well established by now. Accusations of how he behaved towards and around fellow pupils at Dulwich College school were made, mostly anonymously, in Michael Crick’s 2022 biography of Farage, One Party After Another, and in the last few days have been repeated by several contemporaries in a major report in the Guardian. 

According to these witnesses he used terms like “P**i” and “Wog”, sang songs with choruses such as “gas ’em all”, as a prefect he gave a pupil a detention for merely being Asian, and would accost non-white pupils and point to “the way out”. Some others who were at the school at the time attribute this to a boisterous contrarianism and a desire to offend; his victims however, tend to see the boy in the man. Farage wrote to the Guardian and strongly denied saying anything racist or antisemitic as a teenager.

But what are the rest of us to make of it? Should we believe........

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