When I was first approached in 2013 by journalist Michael Crick to participate in a Channel 4 News report about Nigel Farage’s racist behaviour at Dulwich College, I politely declined. The repellent, antisemitic verbal abuse Farage directed at me dated from the year we spent as class-mates aged 13 to 14. Even though it marked me – to this day, I associate the “oldest hatred” with Farage’s spiteful face as he leaned in to insult me – I did not feel it was entirely fair to call him out publicly, given that four decades had passed.

When I eventually watched Channel Four’s report, which featured some damning evidence of Farage’s schoolboy racism, I was appalled to see Farage himself laughing it all off when interviewed by Crick. Yes, he admitted, he probably did say some ridiculous things

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