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Television

The EU is worse than you thought

A new Channel 4 documentary on Nigel Farage reveals that the EU’s deadliest weapon is tedium

5 April 2014

9:00 AM

5 April 2014

9:00 AM

For me, by far the most surprising revelation in Martin Durkin’s documentary Nigel Farage: Who Are You? (Channel 4, Monday) was just how astonishingly vast, unwieldy, authoritarian, interfering, undemocratic, sclerotic, and sinister the European Union actually is.

As a Eurosceptic, I suppose I ought to have known this already. But the secret of the European Union, as one of Durkin’s talking heads noted, is the way it uses boredom as a weapon.

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