Nigel Farage’s American dream

When Nigel Farage flew into New York’s JFK Airport for the first time in 1988, he was travelling into the future. Ronald Reagan was the global figurehead of a conservative counter-revolution sweeping the West, one that merged tradition with new money and black-tie balls with the mantra “greed is good”. It was the close of a glossy go-go decade. The Reagans had waltzed on the cover of Tina Brown’s Vanity Fair magazine. John Travolta had swept Princess Diana off her feet in