If this is Britain’s Milkshake Spring and these are its targets, then I can imagine worse. We have had major violence very recently in our politics, and it has been authored by the far right. By contrast, chucking a milkshake is not political violence at all; it is political theatre, of a kind shared down the ages and across countries. He defended himself by referring to Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of symbolic violence, as one would, but HR wasn’t buying it. For once, the news-satire shows won’t feature Farage as a guest of honour but as a butt of humour.

Source: The Guardian May 21, 2019 18:22 UTC