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Right-wing British politician Nigel Farage is hit in the face with a milkshake during his general election campaign launch in Clacton-on-Sea, eastern England, on June 4, 2024. Photo by BEN STANSALL/AFP via Getty Images

All shook up? UK’s Nigel Farage is the latest to bear the brunt of pelting as popular politics

Nusrat S. Chowdhury, Amherst College

From ancient Rome to modern times, pelting has been a performance of crowd defiance in all its joyous, furious and lawbreaking glory.

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