8 July

Elections as corruption laundering. This is what populists do, and why elections are what are actually breaking democracy. Farage is standing down in the hope he'll be re-elected, and that will wash the slate clean (he thinks) on his alleged corruption. Because for a populist (i.e. mega-kidult), popularity overrules all. 'I have a mandate' for a populist means 'I have unbridled power to do whatever I like'. Popularity is the currency of adolescent life. Kidult culture, 101.