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Trail Hunting and Nigel Farage’s Latest Dress-Up Act

As Labour signals plans to ban trail hunting, arguing it is routinely used to circumvent the foxhunting ban, Nigel Farage has emerged as a vocal defender of the practice. The article examines the origins of trail hunting as a post-2004 workaround, the evidence that it has blurred into illegal hunting, and Farage’s role in recasting the issue as a symbolic fight over rural identity. It argues that his involvement prioritises performance and spectacle over legal clarity or animal welfare, turning a question of enforcement into another exercise in political dress-up.

Nigel Farage has thrown his support behind trail hunting as the government moves to close what critics say is a long-standing loophole in the foxhunting ban. His intervention leans heavily on imagery and identity, framing a legal question about animal welfare as a cultural battle over the countryside.

Opinion

Oslo Doesn’t Negotiate with Narcissists

From Shinzo Abe’s 2018 nomination to phone calls with Norwegian officials and endless cable-news altar calls, Trump turned the Nobel into a personal brand ambition. The 2025 prize went to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado “for her tireless work defending democratic rights” (NobelPrize.org). Trump ripped the lid off the script: he claimed Machado had called to say she accepted the prize “in honour of you, because you really deserved it” (Trump, quoted by Reuters, 10 Oct 2025), while the White House accused the committee of “placing politics over peace” (Steven Cheung, Reuters). This was not merely another celeb-scale gripe; it was the moment a man who built his life on applause discovered an accolade that ignores volume.

Donald Trump spent almost a decade treating the Nobel Peace Prize like something he could cash in on. When the committee handed the 2025 prize to María Corina Machado, the result was predictable: fury, fantasy and the kind of self-pity that sounds loudest on a national stage.

Use of spectacle and performance in governance and communication