The far right in Ireland is run by the charismatically challenged. If someone capable of stringing a sentence together emerges, that political calculus will change quickly
A few years ago this would have seemed no more absurd than a US president renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America
The Tony and Olivier winner feels a huge affinity with Rex Ryan’s ‘fearless’ Dublin company Glass Mask, which is premiering his play Men’s Business
Keir Starmer is walking a very tricky tightrope. Figures close to Trump, including Elon Musk, openly speak of reversing the 2024 UK election outcome by removing him from office
London Letter: Economic disquiet among farmers and in rural communities has been brewing since long before the tax changes
The UK’s messy, ill-thought out exit from the EU has effectively killed off leave campaigns in other member states
Trump has transformed expectations of what can be done, even if his administration ultimately fails to deliver it
English nationalism has rarely been more interested in Ireland
Nigel Farage has the best claim to personify Britain’s “special relationship” with Trump’s US
Former UFC champion was among attendees at rally on eve of Trump’s inauguration in Washington DC
Technology billionaire interested in building support for another political party, notably Reform UK
News outlets may have a structural bias towards the rational over the mind-bendingly nonsensical. In 2025, that’s not ideal
Billionaire’s latest interventions in UK politics are ostensibly about Britain’s handling of child abuse grooming gangs
Of immediate concern is the ease with which Elon Musk’s limitless money has allowed him to buy his way to the pinnacle of political power
Craig Mackinlay was an MP who almost died from sepsis and now he sits in the House of Lords
Eluned Morgan travels to Cork on Thursday for a bilateral with the Irish Government, but first she must learn a cúpla focail for her trip to the Áras
Up to 4,000 jubilant members gather for party conference in Birmingham
First register of interests of new UK parliament shows PM Keir Starmer received four tickets to Taylor Swift concert from Football Association, worth £4,000
For all the rhetoric about opposing globalist elites, the far right clearly follows a form of globalism
A worthwhile but incomplete chronological journey through the making of Britain’s modern multiracial society
Protofascist ideas are at least as prevalent in Ireland as in other Western democracies and the reactionary, nativist mindset is well established here. All the movement is lacking is a leader
UK and French electoral systems have thwarted its advance but the far right is still on the rise globally
Party leader sacks Reform’s deputy leaders as one of them expresses ‘concerns’ over decision making
To put it crudely, a big part of the appeal of Brexit was scale. It felt like a very big thing to do, just as, later in 2016, electing a celebrity non-politician to the White House felt big
Farage’s party got a bigger vote than the Liberal Democrats but ended up with 67 fewer seats
New leader names Rachel Reeves as Britain’s first female chancellor of the exchequer
Labour set to secure 410 seats, with Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives on 131
UK election: Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak says he will take responsibility for the result, which could cost half his cabinet their seats in parliament
Comments by ally of Rishi Sunak come as Sun newspaper tells readers to back Keir Starmer on Thursday
Spelthorne was once considered unwinnable for Labour but Mayo woman Claire Tighe has made it as toss up
‘Have we had a few bad apples? We have, although to my knowledge nobody involved in an organised betting ring is standing for us, which is something’
Nigel Farage ‘dismayed’ by undercover film of canvasser Andrew Parker using racist slur to describe prime minister
Tory PM took aim at his likely successor in Downing Street but may really have been trying to throttle the flow of votes from his party to Farage’s Reform UK
Enthusiasm peaks at a bar-fuelled gathering of supporters of insurgent party headed by Nigel Farage
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How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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