Tag: Farage
After 100 Years, Britain’s Two-Party Political System May Be Crumbling
A dramatic victory in a parliamentary special election. Hundreds of seats won in English municipalities. A first taste of power in the lower...
Reform U.K. Wins Special Election in Runcorn by Just 6 Votes
Nigel Farage’s insurgent anti-immigration party, Reform U.K., scored a significant, if razor-thin, victory Friday in a parliamentary special election in the northwest of...
Farage Says He Talked to Musk Last Week. Relationship is ‘Fine.’
Three weeks after a very public rift, the populist British politician Nigel Farage said on Wednesday that his relationship with Elon Musk was...
How Elon Musk is Using Start-Up Tactics to Disrupt European Politics
They are ripe for disruption.Well before Mr. Musk first backed the AfD, it had become the second most-popular party in Germany. The Social...
Reform U.K. is Said to Land Over $1 Million in Populist...
Britain’s populist party, Reform U.K., was expected to bring in more than $1.25 million dollars at a glitzy fund-raiser on Tuesday, a party...
The British Public Dislikes Elon Musk. He Can Still Sway Politics.
While many of Mr. Musk’s posts, particularly those on grooming gangs, originated in the ecosystem of far-right bloggers and activists, they are also...
As Elon Musk Embraces the Far Right, Some of Its Leaders...
When Laura Loomer, a far-right activist, regained control of her Twitter account in late 2022, she knew whom to praise for her reinstatement.“Thank...
Elon Musk and His Megaphone, X, Rattle British Politics
When Elon Musk asked his 211 million followers on X to vote on whether “America should liberate the people of Britain from their...
In Reversal, Musk Trashes Farage, U.K.’s Anti-Immigrant Populist
It was an abrupt turnabout, even for the easy-come, easy-go nature of alliances in President-elect Donald J. Trump’s political orbit.For weeks, Elon Musk,...
