78 minutes ago Nigel Farage and Elon Musk to reunite as Reform leader hosts Trump inauguration party in Washington

Exclusive: Nigel Farage is set to host ‘the biggest inauguration party’ in Washington DC with Donald Trump, the president-elect’s family, Elon Musk, senior Republicans and the UK’s new ambassador to the US Lord Mandelson all expected to attend

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7 hours ago Terror watchdog lawyer says UK should consider allowing IS members to come home

UK woman Shamima Begum was disallowed to challenge the removal of her British citizenship at the Supreme Court in August last year.

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20 hours ago Elon Musk's Twitter is paying Nigel Farage's Reform UK MPs thousands of pounds every month

The party leader, along with ex-Tory Lee Anderson and Rupert Lowe all get a share of the ad revenue on their tweets on the social network - prompting questions over whether they should declare an interest when discussing the billionaire in Parliament

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26 hours ago Elon Musk and Nigel Farage: A timeline of Reform’s relationship with the tech billionaire

These two figureheads of the right don’t always agree...

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12 hours ago Defiant Nigel Farage claims 12 Reform councillors who quit over Elon Musk row were part of 'rogue branch' in fiery Newsnight exchange

The 12 councilors - who hold two district council seats, nine town council seats and five parish council seats - are all from Derbyshire and include Alex Stephenson.

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18 hours ago Nigel Farage says he and Elon Musk are ‘still friends’ after social media attack

The Reform UK leader added that he had spoken to the tech mogul since his comments on X

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15 hours ago Nigel Farage ‘thoughtful’ about whether UK should bring Shamima Begum back

Nigel Farage has said that he is “thoughtful” when asked if the UK should consider bringing back Shamima Begum.

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19 hours ago Most grooming gang offences carried out by white men, police chiefs say

Elon Musk has used his platform X to wage an online campaign against the government over the issue of grooming gangs.

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16 hours ago Nigel Farage ‘thoughtful’ about whether UK should bring back Shamima Begum

The Reform UK leader said that ‘instinctively’ it is not something he would want to do but he is ‘now thoughtful’ about the matter.

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17 hours ago Reform UK rocked as 12 councillors resign over Nigel Farage's leadership after Elon Musk described politician as 'not up to the job'

The Reform UK leader lashed out at US politicians earlier in the week for supporting Tommy Robinson as he tried to mend his relationship with Musk.

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26 hours ago Elon Musk and Nigel Farage: A timeline of Reform leader’s relationship with the tech billionaire

These two figureheads of the right don’t always agree...

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28 hours ago Reform MPs including Nigel Farage paid thousands by Elon Musk’s X for posting on site

The scheme has been branded an ‘unholy alliance’ between the right-wing and billionaire Musk

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30 hours ago Farage, Musk and Trump: they crave your attention. Don’t give it to them | Andy Beckett

Populist trolling thrives on the oxygen of publicity. It’s on all of us – media and voters – to start looking awayEven more than other forms of politics, populism needs an audience. Populist politicians want to be famous personalities, to make attention-getting claims and promises, to create new national myths. Like other ambitious but less ideological entertainers, they want their act to be widely noticed, and then requested again and again. Without a receptive audience, populism can just seem cranky and simplistic – little different from fringe political movements down the ages.In Britain, the US and many other democracies from India to Argentina, populism’s current dominant variant is rightwing, and much of its intended audience is the rightwing media. Conservative commentators, reporters and public intellectuals are constantly required to amplify populism’s messages and help maintain the public profiles of its leading figures. With only five Reform UK MPs, Nigel Farage needs the...

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