UKIP leader Nigel Farage, beside a portrait of Britain's House of Lords (Toby Melville / Reuters) When I was a teenager, I wished for many things. I was determined to be a historian like my intellectual idol, A.J.P. Taylor, whose television lectures on British and European history held me spellbound.

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