The greatest challenge Farage has ever faced - convincing the world he was never besties with Donald Trump
A delicious read 😀
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/20/nigel-farage-donald-trump-reform-uk-us-president-besties
At last, the culture has thrown up a split more nauseatingly up itself than Gwyneth Paltrow’s from Chris Martin. It is Nigel Farage’s attempt to consciously uncouple from Donald Trump, a man up whose backside he’s spent the past decade most firmly lodged. Nigel’s made such a massive, self-satisfied show of his real estate in the presidential large intestine for 10 years now that I actually don’t think non-surgical extraction is possible at this stage. He doesn’t just get to walk away whistling. The only way out is a full Faragectomy. I’ll give the president a piece of drone fuselage to bite down on.
Anyway: conscious uncoupling. Back in the day, you’ll remember, Gwyneth and the Coldplay singer deployed this particular phrase when announcing their marital split. Did the public love it? They did not. The general vibe – as with so much of Her Vajesty’s output – was that she would do even marriage failure more smugly and unachievably than mere plebs could ever. The pivot from gushing about her perfect marriage to gushing about her perfect divorce felt like mere days.
But let’s focus on Farage, both on the basis that he is constantly treated as Britain’s prime minister-in-waiting, and because no one in British politics has sucked up as long or as hard to Donald Trump as Nigel has. He was still at it two weeks ago. At the end of the first week of the war, Farage announced he was flying out to dinner at Mar-a-Lago and would be making various foreign policy points to Trump, who we were led to believe would be available to Nigel in the communal areas of his Palm Beach home. (I will genuinely never get over the fact that the US president willingly lives in a golf club.) Hilariously, though, Trump decided against going to Mar-a-Lago that night, preferring to hole up in one of his alternative Florida resorts.