close Cancel email WhatsApp link share Share bookmark SaveAndrea Rizzi, a journalist with Spain’s El Pais newspaper, put it best. The global right wing, he wrote as footage of thousands of migrants arriving in Ceuta from Morocco was being beamed around the world, are “hyperventilating with happiness”. Farage, displaying a suntan so deep that his Reform UK colleague Sarah Pochin must be close to complaining about him appearing on her television, would have known this. But the facts don’t fit the sort of feelings he has always been so desperate to foment. Cravenly desperate to be taken seriously in other policy areas, his political curse is to be entirely ineffective, if not ridiculous, on any other subject.