How much should we mind about Nigel Farage and the sources of his money, and Reform and the source of its money, and the relation between those two things? I feel rather torn. I am militantly opposed to the state funding of political parties, because it leads to state control. If political parties cannot convince citizens, rich or poor, to put their money where those parties' mouths are, that shows they are unpersuasive. It is a good test.