The March of the Far Right...

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8. The author, Hunter DuBose, is billed on the website as "Producer of Brexit: the Movie"

and is listed on Google as Managing Partner at Spitfire Capital Advisors, among other things, so I'm not sure how schooled he is in the Classics.

I'm also not sure the Telegraph should be giving space to the ravings of someone who partnered with a convicted criminal and was stupid enough to part with nearly half a million quid in a blatant scam:

Activist behind pro-Brexit movie faces prison after admitting fraud

A Conservative party activist who produced Brexit: The Movie is facing a possible jail sentence after he admitted lying to secure a £519,000 investment in his fledgling hedge fund.

David Shipley, 36, was a leading voice in the campaign for Britain to pull out of the EU, and was one of the people behind the pro-Leave film, which featured Nigel Farage and David Davis and came out a month before the 2016 referendum.

He will be sentenced next month after he admitted lying about his earnings to secure the investment in his company, Spitfire Capital Advisors, in 2014.
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He said Shipley’s business partner Hunter DuBose, also a producer on the film, was then convinced to plough £450,000 into the firm. “The company wouldn’t have existed but for the lies Mr Shipley told,” said Mr Munday.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/activist-behind-probrexit-movie-faces-prison-after-admitting-to-fraud-a4087981.html

But then he's stupid enough to still have his association with the disgraced Spitfire Capital Advisors freely available online, including on the Financial Conduct Authority's website, and let the Telegraph associate him with a daft film co-produced with a convicted criminal and designed to appeal to wingnuts, so I'm not inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt.

Here's DuBose, in case his shiny chinlessness helps to form an opinion (far less flattering pics are easy to find online):



Anyway, the media have picked up on it, including the Independent:

People can't stop laughing at this David Lammy joke about Nigel Farage

The Daily Telegraph ran an opinion piece by documentarian Hunter DuBose on Wednesday describing Nigel Farage as the "Brexit Icarus".

The piece was trailed on social media with the tag line: "Here's how he can see us fly out of the EU to freedom".

But there was a problem with this conceit and Labour MP David Lammy, historian Sarah Churchwell and writer Mark Gatiss were only among the most prominent to spot it.

https://www.indy100.com/article/brexit-icarus-nigel-farage-telegraph-tweet-david-lammy-sarah-churchwell-9101096

Link to tweet

David Lammy ✔
@DavidLammy

You are not going to be happy when you find out how the story of Icarus ends.

Link to tweet

Telegraph Politics ✔ @TelePolitics

Nigel Farage is the Brexit Icarus. Here's how he can see us fly out of the EU to freedom | Hunter DuBose https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/09/11/nigel-farage-brexit-icarus-can-see-us-fly-eu-freedom/

Link to tweet

Mark Gatiss ✔
@Markgatiss

You do...um...know the story of Icarus?

Link to tweet

Telegraph Politics ✔ @TelePolitics

Nigel Farage is the Brexit Icarus. Here's how he can see us fly out of the EU to freedom | Hunter DuBose https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/09/11/nigel-farage-brexit-icarus-can-see-us-fly-eu-freedom/

If the article did hit print in un-rewritten form, I guess someone will ferret it out so we can all point and laugh some more. Otherwise, I suppose it's just another sub-editor cock-up.