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The Guardian - UK
Politics

Spare us from the Farage barrage

Nigel Farage laughing while standing at Reform UK lectern
‘I’m getting the visual version of an earworm – an eyeworm, perhaps? It’s awful.’ Photograph: Getty

Faragitis: the collective delusion that a public-school educated former financial trader with his coterie of millionaire backers is a man of the people and the solution to the country’s manifest ills (‘They really are all horrible’: political anger marks Reform UK’s Runcorn win, 2 May). Not to be confused with pharyngitis, although both are associated with a severe pain in the neck.
Prof Nick Spencer
Leamington Spa, Warwickshire

• Please cut down or reduce the number of pictures of a gurning Nigel Farage. I’m getting the visual version of an earworm – an eyeworm, perhaps? It’s awful.
Terry Carbro
Whitby, North Yorkshire

• On Saturday, I opened my paper excitedly anticipating my guide to living with cats (The Guardian guide to living with dogs, 26 April). I searched in vain. Crestfallen now.
Annie Grist
Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire

• I’m with Christine Walters on the subject of dark chocolate digestive biscuits (Letters, 1 May). Even better, try them with a stiff gin and tonic – you will not even care which way is up.
Gill Whelan
Aberdeen

• My favourite chocolate digestive snack is from the tin in my allotment shed. They are often stuck together in fours, which is ideal.
Suzanne Perkins
London

• Pea guacamole – surely that’s mushy peas (Feast, 3 May)!
Fred Pickering
Chapel-en-le-Frith, High Peak, Derbyshire

• Have an opinion on anything you’ve read in the Guardian today? Please email us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our letters section.

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