Media contributions
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Title The original Trump? How Charles Fox invented personality politics Degree of recognition International Media name/outlet The Bunker Podcast Media type Radio Duration/Length/Size 31 minutes Country/Territory United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Date 11 Dec 2025 Description 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 Producer/Author Podmasters URL https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-original-trump-how-charles-fox-invented/id1496246490?i=1000740694775 Persons Callum Smith
Keywords
- Politics
- Trump
- Charles James Fox
- Radical
- Sociability
- Podcast
- Eighteenth-century
- Parliament
- Celebrity
- Cult of personality