In it to bin it: Nigel Farage v Count Binface

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  The Economist.

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  Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.

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  I'm Jason Palmer.

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  Today on the show, fed up Africans turn to Starlink for their internet,

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  and our culture editor's take on the new Odyssey adaptation.

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  First up, though,

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  Listeners outside Britain probably don't know about one quirky facet of the country's political system.

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  It's really easy, practically speaking, to run for office.

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  What that means is you sometimes get fringe parties and fringe individuals campaigning.

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  The Official Monster Raving Loony Party, the Church of the Militant Elvis Party.

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  The list is long and the media love this stuff.

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  Now, when one of those fringe candidates goes head-to-head against the country's poll frontrunner

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  in a surprise by-election, oof, media gold dust.

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  We don't need to review the rise and rise of Nigel Farage,

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  leader of the populist right Reform Party.

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  He has stepped down and is running again to be a member of parliament in Clacton-on-Sea.

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  The people of Clacton should be the judges of my actions.

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  This will be a people versus the establishment by-election.

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  It's a chance to stick two fingers up to the entire establishment.

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  And evidently the representative of the establishment in the contest?

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