A feud can be very tedious and tiring if you’re one of the combatants. But let’s be honest: for onlookers, feuds are fun. Videos of spats in which one or other party is ‘schooled, owned, destroyed’ ratchet up millions of views. It’s even more fun when both sides don’t lose their temper and civility is maintained. There is glorious entertainment in watching people ‘throwing shade’ at one another without it ever quite coming to the boil.
The smaller the differences, the funnier the feud
Now we have a new one to enjoy, in the classic mould. Ding ding, in the blue corner is Kemi Badenoch. While in the slightly different shade of blue corner it’s Nigel Farage. Rocking up to Kemi’s headquarters in the middle of the night with a projector displaying his membership numbers, Farage managed to goad Badenoch into a non-proofread thread on X, which in turn goaded him into making threats of legal action (or at least, threats of threats of legal action).
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