
Otto English dissects how the right united behind a symbol of the ‘free speech authoritarianism’ it claims is terrorising Britain – so real violence and its causes can go ignored

Despite what creative types may claim, even critics are human beings. And though those scrutinisers often get it right, they can sometimes get it wrong.
Soon after the attempt on Donald Trump’s life in Butler, Pennsylvania, on 13 July last year, Elon Musk reached out to the former and future President and, shortly thereafter, these star-crossed weirdos were embarking on a political bromance the likes of which MAGA America had never seen.
Long before Donald Trump’s ‘MAGA’, a society railing against the New World Order recruited thousands of acolytes across the United States. All it had to do was bide its time, writes Otto English
The Empire State Building first opened its doors to the public on 1 May 1931. Rising to a height of 385m, it was then the tallest building in the world and would retain that accolade until it was surpassed by the World Trade Centre’s Twin Towers in 1972.
Though it sat on the edge of an ever-expanding new town, the Essex village where I grew up in the 1970s still had tangible traces of the county’s rural past. The high street, with its four pubs, post office, and butcher, looked like it had sprung fresh from a Nigel Farage wet dream. There was

