Musk examines how to oust Starmer as prime minister before next UK election
Technology billionaire interested in building support for another political party, notably Reform UK
Nigel Farage
Sanewashing by the media helps absurdity and extremism flourish
News outlets may have a structural bias towards the rational over the mind-bendingly nonsensical. In 2025, that’s not ideal
Elon Musk fights Battle of Britain on two fronts as he clashes with Nigel Farage and Keir Starmer
Billionaire’s latest interventions in UK politics are ostensibly about Britain’s handling of child abuse grooming gangs
Predictions? It’s difficult to do anything but peer fearfully around the corner into this new year
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
The Bionic Baron who staged a comeback after quadruple amputation in one of Westminster’s moments of the year
Craig Mackinlay was an MP who almost died from sepsis and now he sits in the House of Lords
‘I met Nigel Farage in the bar’: the vicar’s daughter who ‘liked to party’ and is now first minister of Wales
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
‘Prime minister Farage’: Reform UK leader says party has ‘come of age’ and could win the next election
Up to 4,000 jubilant members gather for party conference in Birmingham
Nigel Farage revealed to be UK’s highest-earning MP with over £1m a year from GB News
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
People don’t set small businesses on fire because they love their country
For all the rhetoric about opposing globalist elites, the far right clearly follows a form of globalism
Multicultural Britain. A People’s History by Kieran Connell: Stunning insights but plenty overlooked
A worthwhile but incomplete chronological journey through the making of Britain’s modern multiracial society
The far right is just a Farage away from breaking through in Irish politics
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
Economic populism of the right has gone mainstream
UK and French electoral systems have thwarted its advance but the far right is still on the rise globally
Tensions in Reform UK after Nigel Farage shakes up party leadership
Party leader sacks Reform’s deputy leaders as one of them expresses ‘concerns’ over decision making
Welcome to adventure holiday politics ... white-water rafting with Brexit, bungee jumping with Trump
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
Reform UK loses out in first-past-the-post anomaly despite winning one in seven votes
Farage’s party got a bigger vote than the Liberal Democrats but ended up with 67 fewer seats
Keir Starmer enters Downing Street as UK prime minister after historic victory
New leader names Rachel Reeves as Britain’s first female chancellor of the exchequer
Keir Starmer set to be British prime minister amid landslide victory for Labour in UK election
Labour set to secure 410 seats, with Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives on 131
UK general election: Polls open with Labour on course for historic victory
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
Tories warn of Labour landslide in final day of UK election campaigning
Comments by ally of Rishi Sunak come as Sun newspaper tells readers to back Keir Starmer on Thursday
‘It’s the Mayo supporter in me’: the Ballycastle Labour woman battling for Tory Kwasi Kwarteng’s old seat
Spelthorne was once considered unwinnable for Labour but Mayo woman Claire Tighe has made it as toss up
Farage claims ‘bad apples are gone’ from Reform UK amid ongoing racism row
‘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’
Rishi Sunak criticises Reform UK following party activist’s racist outburst
Nigel Farage ‘dismayed’ by undercover film of canvasser Andrew Parker using racist slur to describe prime minister
UK election debate: Sunak goes for it in final joust with Starmer but his true target probably wasn’t in the room
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
Reform UK rally: Boos and cheers at political Punch and Judy show
Enthusiasm peaks at a bar-fuelled gathering of supporters of insurgent party headed by Nigel Farage
Nigel Farage claims the EU and Nato ‘provoked’ Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Reform UK leader was challenged over a series of policies and beliefs while speaking to BBC’s Panorama
‘I’ve never had so much fun’: The Dub running for Nigel Farage’s Reform party threatening Jacob Rees-Mogg’s seat
Policy geek Paul MacDonnell is running for election to Westminster amid the green hills of Somerset
The Irish Times view on the UK election: reckoning with the Farage factor
The Irish Government would welcome the calmer atmosphere a Labour government would bring, but would also be mindful of the support for Farage and its potential longer-term implications
Fireworks and Farage: Reform UK leader brings anti-immigration political cabaret act to Clacton’s theatre
Nigel Farage packed out a theatre on Tuesday night in the centre of the Essex constituency where he is running to be the local MP
Gideon Rachman: From France to America, the far right is on the march
Attitudes to democracy and the rule of law will define the distinctions in politics
Reform UK’s ‘radical’ election manifesto sums criticised by spending analysts
Nigel Farage launches his party’s offering for the July 4th poll in Wales, upstaging Labour and the Tories
Legal firm kindly volunteers its services to Irish Government department ahead of Covid inquiry
Plus: Mayor of Limerick’s ‘erroneous’ planning arguments; Nigel Farage’s Irish teacher; and Neil Jordan’s strange Garret FitzGerald anecdote
Englishness and Britishness are not the same. That matters as nationalism resurges in the UK
Can a Labour government go far enough with constitutional reform to deflect renewed Scottish demands for independence?
Janan Ganesh: Macron’s election call is an act of cool logic
The last best hope against populism is to expose it to government
Farage gives backing to DUP election candidates despite his party’s alliance with TUV
Farage’s backing of Ian Paisley and Sammy Wilson described as ‘embarrassing’ for TUV leader Jim Allister
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