What does the surge of Farage’s Reform mean for UK politics?
Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan
Nigel Farage
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK lives up to the hype, trouncing Labour and Tories in local election votes
Reform also wins crucial Westminster byelection as it upends English politics with a string of stunning victories
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK beats Labour by six votes in Runcorn and Helsby byelection
Reform win a blow to Keir Starmer in first election test as British prime minister
Tories braced for losses while Reform could emerge on top as parts of England hold local and mayoral votes
Nigel Farage’s party vies with Labour for working class votes in England’s north and midlands while Tories and Lib Dems battle in the south
Showdown between Reform and Labour as crucial UK byelection looms
Nigel Farage’s insurgent party faces off against Keir Starmer’s Labour in Red Wall battle
Kemi Badenoch plays down Tory frontbencher’s comments about tie-up with Nigel Farage’s Reform UK
Tory leader goaded by Keir Starmer after Robert Jenrick appeared to undermine her
What is the reactionary international movement, Europe’s new political force?
Though far-right parties have been on the rise for decades, Donald Trump’s election has empowered them. They are experiencing ‘a great emboldening’
Ryan Tubridy data request could reignite crisis and holds legal and reputational risks for RTÉ
Use of subject access requests, which originate in EU data protection law, is rapidly growing
‘Have you watched Adolescence yet?’ - Life imitates art for Kemi Badenoch
Party colleagues fear her low-wattage turn as Tory leader could spell trouble
Charm offensive: The close personal encounters with charmers that leave us uneasy
We know charm is routinely weaponised in politics, business and personal relationships. Still, we’re not always immune to charming people, and maybe we don’t want to be
Birmingham’s rubbish piles high against walls covered in pro-Palestine graffiti
Birmingham Letter: The city’s bin strike crisis is being portrayed as a symbol of ‘Broken Britain’
Conor McGregor presidential bid: All but one of 188 councillors would not vote for MMA fighter, survey shows
Councillors are bracing for a chaotic bid to seek presidential nomination
The Irish Times view on the Trump backlash: how not to make friends or influence people
Who would have guessed contempt for allies and crude attempts to interfere in their domestic politics would elicit such a negative response?
Reform UK undergoes schism amid row linked to Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson
Party leader Nigel Farage has fallen out with MP Rupert Lowe, seen as one of ‘Tommy’s people'
Keir Starmer faces a defining moment as he heads for Washington
Trade and defence, including the future of Ukraine, will top the agenda for the UK PM’s first meeting with Donald Trump as president
All bar one: Westminster parties almost fully united behind Ukraine as UK hits Russia with more sanctions
Only Nigel Farage’s Reform UK stayed away from Commons debate in support of Ukraine
There’s a reason why Ireland hasn’t produced a Donald Trump or a Nigel Farage yet
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
The Irish Sea is to be renamed the British Sea – and from now on underwear will be worn on the outside
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
Playwright Simon Stephens: ‘Our sense of self is defined by the stories we tell ourselves. My family told themselves we were Irish’
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
England is mired in self-doubt and disillusionment - but Ireland can’t afford to gloat
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
Keir Starmer could face rising pressure to climb down on farm inheritance tax
London Letter: Economic disquiet among farmers and in rural communities has been brewing since long before the tax changes
How Brexit killed Frexit
The UK’s messy, ill-thought out exit from the EU has effectively killed off leave campaigns in other member states
Trump may just have put an end to peace process absurdities
Trump has transformed expectations of what can be done, even if his administration ultimately fails to deliver it
Tommy Robinson and Conor McGregor find common cause
English nationalism has rarely been more interested in Ireland
Right-wing figures jockey to be UK’s Trump whisperer as Keir Starmer is left to watch from afar
Nigel Farage has the best claim to personify Britain’s “special relationship” with Trump’s US
Conor McGregor joins Donald Trump supporters at victory rally in US
Former UFC champion was among attendees at rally on eve of Trump’s inauguration in Washington DC
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
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
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