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Teitl The original Trump? How Charles Fox invented personality politics Graddau amlygrwydd Rhyngwladol Enw cyfrwng / allfa The Bunker Podcast Math y cyfrwng Radio Hyd / Maint 31 minutes Gwlad/Tiriogaeth Teyrnas Unedig Prydain Fawr a Gogledd Iwerddon Dyddiad cyhoeddi 11 Rhag 2025 Disgrifiad Personality politics isn’t just a modern problem – it started centuries earlier with an aristocrat called Charles James Fox. You can trace the roots of modern political celebrity back to this 18th-century provocateur, whose charm, scandals and theatrics helped redefine what leadership looked like. Fox built a movement around himself rather than his policies, offering an early blueprint for the dangerous style of politics reshaping democracies today. Alex von Tunzelmann speaks with Dr Callum Smith of Aberystwyth University about Fox’s rise and how history helps us understand the dominance of modern figures like Trump and Farage Cynhyrchydd / Awdur Podmasters URL https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-original-trump-how-charles-fox-invented/id1496246490?i=1000740694775 Unigolion Callum Smith