I credit Farage with being one of the people who made me realise many of the opinions I held were not my own. Rather, they were the opinions of others that I subconsciously believed were mine.

I was probably slightly repelled by him back in 2020, but found myself watching a YouTube advert for his newsletter after going down the inflation rabbit hole. Imagine my surprise when I found his financial insights and commentary, much of which centered around gold, quite in line with my own. I read it for a while before moving on, but vowed that I would always be a practitioner rather than a theorist from then on.

A few years on and I realise that much of what I thought I knew, particularly when it came to opinions on individuals, was actually subconscious programming formed from the habits of my consumption. A few thousand pages of David Icke later and I definitely have my own viewpoints, not always right and certainly open to change, but my own nonetheless.

I don't believe the answers necessarily lie within the political sphere, but Reform and Farage have done plenty to bring debate into the mainstream. He's Diet Trump at best.