John Bull Spirit

The rise of UKIP has spread panic among Britain’s political establishment. But there is nothing new about populist movements, as David Nash reveals in this profile of the newspaper proprietor Horatio Bottomley. 

John Bull personified: Horatio Bottomley, c.1900

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