Chapter 39: Mania

163      “caused” . . . “by the presence at the Tory Party conference . . .”  Georgia Pearce, “Nigel Farage Issues Warning to Sunak as He Attends Tory Conference for First Time in 36 Years,” GB News, video, October 2, 2023, updated October 3, 2023,”www.gbnews.com/politics/politics-nigel-farage-warning-rishi-sunak-tory-party-conference, 00:03–00:11.

163      “Lights, Camera, Action!”  Nigel Farage, X, October 3, 2023, 10:02 a.m., x.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1709207214508920918, archived at archive.today, February 9, 2026 capture, archive.ph/wip/bw80F.

163      “Farage Mania”  Good Morning Britain, “Farage Fever at The Tory Party Conference: Why He Thinks They're In Trouble   Good Morning Britain,” YouTube, October 5, 2023, youtu.be/NJh4wjwQn9s?si=yJhScP_D2LQgSfIE, 00:26–00:30.

163      “No problem”  Nigel Farage, X, October 3, 2023, 10:02 a.m., x.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1709207214508920918, 00:00–00:01.

163      “I want to show my mum”  Nigel Farage, X, October 3, 2023, x.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1709207214508920918, 00:00–00:03.

163–164  “This party, the Conservative Party, needs . . .”  Nigel Farage, X, October 3, 2023, x.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1709207214508920918, 00:40–00:45.

164      The New Statesman’s “Right Power List”  “The New Statesman’s Right Power List,” New Statesman, September 27, 2023, www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2023/09/the-new-statesmans-right-power-list.

164      falsely reported in the Daily Mail  Dominic Ponsford, “Daily Mail Pays Damages and Legal Costs to Farage Wife After Saying She Was Previously His ‘Mistress,’” Press Gazette, May 12, 2014, updated May 13, 2014, pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/nationals/daily-mail-pays-damages-and-legal-costs-farage-wife-after-saying-she-was-previously-his-mistress.

164      “torrid affair” Andrew Pierce, "Awkward Truth About Farage’s Weakness for Women," Daily Mail, March 14, 2014; and Ponsford, “Daily Mail Pays Damages and Legal Costs to Farage Wife After Saying She Was Previously His ‘Mistress’” pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/nationals/daily-mail-pays-damages-and-legal-costs-farage-wife-after-saying-she-was-previously-his-mistress.

164      paid damages and legal costs  Ponsford, “Daily Mail Pays Damages and Legal Costs to Farage Wife After Saying She Was Previously His ‘Mistress,’” pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/nationals/daily-mail-pays-damages-and-legal-costs-farage-wife-after-saying-she-was-previously-his-mistress.

164      Farage has four children  Ella Alexander, “Nigel Farage: One of My ‘Big Regrets’ Is Not Spending More Time with My Daughters,” The Independent, December 15, 2014, www.the-independent.com/news/people/nigel-farage-my-biggest-regret-is-not-spending-more-time-with-my-daughters-9925553.html.

164      “Maybe it’s because I’ve got so many women pregnant . . .”  Nigel Farage quoted in Kathryn Bromwich, “Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage: Their Wit and Wisdom,” The Guardian, August 30, 2014, www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/aug/31/boris-johnson-nigel-farage-in-quotes.

164      date Laure Ferrari, a French political operative   “Nigel Farage’s Wife Says They Have Lived ‘Separate Lives for Some Years,’” Sky News, February 6, 2017, news.sky.com/story/nigel-farages-wife-says-they-have-lived-separate-lives-for-some-years-10758372.

164      affiliated with . . . Debout la France (France Arise), founded by . . .Dupont-Aignan  Cécile Barbière, “Profile: Laure Ferrari, the Protegee of Nigel Farage,” Euractiv, May 21, 2014, www.euractiv.com/section/elections/news/profile-laure-ferrari-the-protegee-of-nigel-farage.

164      “National Front bases many of their ideas on us . . .”  Laure Ferrari quoted in Barbière, “Profile: Laure Ferrari, the Protegee of Nigel Farage,” www.euractiv.com/section/elections/news/profile-laure-ferrari-the-protegee-of-nigel-farage.

164      endorsed Le Pen for president  Fiona Maxwell, “Right-Winger Dupont-Aignan Endorses Le Pen for French President,” Politico, April 29, 2017, www.politico.eu/article/right-winger-dupont-aignan-endorses-le-pen-for-french-president.

164      “I am not for zero immigration . . .”  Nicolas Dupont-Aignan quoted in Marc de Boni, “Nicolas Dupont-Aignan Takes Up the ‘Great Replacement,’” Le Figaro, www.lefigaro.fr/elections/presidentielles/2017/01/17/35003-20170117ARTFIG00319-nicolas-dupont-aignan-reprend-a-son-compte-le-grand-remplacement.php, via Google Translate.

164      “my ancestors were migrants—technically, asylum seekers . . .”  Nigel Farage, “Nigel Farage: Ukip’s Immigration Policy Is Built on Fairness,” The Telegraph, March 3, 2015, accessed via Wayback Machine, March 4, 2015 capture, web.archive.org/web/20150304043107/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/nigel-farage/11447132/Nigel-Farage-Ukips-immigration-policy-is-built-on-fairness.html.

164      fleeing religious persecution from Catholic France  Farage, “Ukip’s Immigration Policy Is Built on Fairness,”; and Tom Meltzer, “Is Nigel Farage a Racist?” The Guardian, May 10, 2013, www.theguardian.com/politics/shortcuts/2013/may/10/is-nigel-farage-racist.

164      originated from the French word réfugié  Alice Bloch, The Migration and Settlement of Refugees in Britain (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), 22. Find the library book at search.worldcat.org/title/49225591?oclcNum=49225591. “The Origin of ‘Refugee,’” Merriam-Webster, accessed December 5, 2024, www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/origin-and-meaning-of-refugee; and Jessica Brain, “The Huguenots—England’s First Refugees,” Historic UK, September 10, 2021, www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/The-Huguenots.

164      who fled France in the aftermath of  Katrin Althans, “Women Refugees in Law and Literature,” Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 35, no. 1 (Spring 2024), 35. Access journal article at angl.winter-verlag.de/article/angl/2024/1/7.

164      roughly 8,000 of them in the 1572 Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre  Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, “The Huguenots in America," Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History, November 19, 2020, oxfordre.com/americanhistory/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.001.0001/acrefore-9780199329175-e-874.

164–165 when the Edict of Nantes granted Protestant Huguenots  Bloch, The Migration and Settlement of Refugees in Britain, 22. Find the library book at search.worldcat.org/title/49225591?oclcNum=49225591.

165      began again when the edict was revoked in 1685  Bloch, The Migration and Settlement of Refugees in Britain, 22. Find the library book at search.worldcat.org/title/49225591?oclcNum=49225591.

165      mostly escaped on small boats from northeast France  “Huguenots,” The History of London, accessed January 24, 2025, www.thehistoryoflondon.co.uk/huguenots.

165      crossed the English Channel  “Huguenots,” www.thehistoryoflondon.co.uk/huguenots.

165      provided . . . a little bit of relief . . . allowed them to practice their religion  Brain, “The Huguenots—England’s First Refugees," www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/The-Huguenots; and “Huguenots in England,” The National Archives, accessed January 24, 2025, https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/huguenots-in-england/.

165      emerged in . . . English towns like Canterbury, Faversham . . .  Brain, “The Huguenots—England’s First Refugees," www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/The-Huguenots; and “Huguenots in England,” www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/huguenots-in-england.

165      a bill passed and quickly repealed  Cobbett’s Parliamentary History of England, vol. 6 (London: T.C. Hansard, 1810), www.google.com/books/edition/Cobbett_s_Parliamentary_History_of_Engla/JQ317JKSkZoC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PP7&printsec=frontcover, 780–781.

165      “multitudes of aliens” were “to settle here”  Cobbett’s Parliamentary History of England, www.google.com/books/edition/Cobbett_s_Parliamentary_History_of_Engla/JQ317JKSkZoC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PP7&printsec=frontcover, 6:780.

165      “might endanger our ancient polity . . .”  Cobbett’s Parliamentary History of England, www.google.com/books/edition/Cobbett_s_Parliamentary_History_of_Engla/JQ317JKSkZoC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PP7&printsec=frontcover, 6:780.

165      John London, Britain’s first known Black voter  Chris Osuh, “Britain’s First Black Voter Was in 1749, 25 Years Earlier Than Thought, and Ran a Pub,” The Guardian, October 24, 2024, www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/24/britains-first-black-voter-was-in-1749-25-years-earlier-than-thought-and-ran-a-pub.

165      one in six Britons . . . a French Huguenot ancestor “Huguenot Heritage Centre in Rochester One Step Closer,” BBC News, May 19, 2013, www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-kent-22553600.

165      was a German immigrant  “Nigel Farage’s Wife Says They Have Lived ‘Separate Lives for Some Years,’” news.sky.com/story/nigel-farages-wife-says-they-have-lived-separate-lives-for-some-years-10758372.

165      “I think you know the difference”  Nigel Farage quoted in Patrick Wintour, “Nigel Farage Aide Disrupts Interview Amid Racism and Expenses Claims,” The Guardian, May 16, 2014, www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/may/16/nigel-farage-ukip-car-crash-radio-interview-lbc.