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Nigel Farage

March

A cat rummages through furniture and uncollected refuse bags in the Sparkhill area of Birmingham, amid an ongoing refuse workers’ strike in the city.

‘Rats gnawed through my sister’s car. Now there’s no escape’

Binmen in Birmingham, the UK’s second-largest city, have been on strike for three weeks, leaving bin bags obstructing pavements like an assault course.

February

Keir Starmer: “I believe we must now change our approach to national security so we are ready to meet the challenges of our volatile world.”

Trump’s threats push Starmer into a more global, military agenda

The UK’s new defence spending plan comes at a crunch moment for the British prime minister before he meets Donald Trump in the White House.

January

It’s their world now. The rise of Trump’s right across the globe

As he takes power, the president boasts of an international group of right-wing proxies with equally provocative styles and a hostility towards migrants and “wokery”.

Elon Musk, the most powerful troll on Earth, targets the UK

As the world’s richest man and a member of Trump’s team, Musk has enormous influence, and his admirers in both America and Britain have taken up the cause.

Elon Musk wrote on X this week that “Starmer must go, and he must face charges for his complicity in the worst mass crime in the history of Britain”.

Why has Elon Musk reignited debate over the UK rape gangs scandal?

The mercurial billionaire and Donald Trump confidant has claimed on X that “hundreds of thousands” of “little British girls” were targeted for gang rape and murder. What’s behind these claims?

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Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage appears to have lost the support of Elon Musk.

How Musk went from Reform’s $160m donor to calling for Farage’s head

Out of the blue the billionaire tech mogul, who has been one of the Reform leader’s most vocal backers online, turned against him. What went wrong?

Elon Musk has involved himself deeply in US politics – now he’s turned his attention to Germany.

Elon Musk turns on Reform UK’s Nigel Farage in dramatic U-turn

The billionaire and key adviser to Donald Trump did not explain his change of position, but his post came hours after comments from the British populist.

President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a Time magazine Person of the Year event.

2024 broke a 120-year election record that is terrible news for Labor

The billions who voted in 2024 sent an angry message to incumbent governments and warmed to populists, particularly on the right.

December 2024

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ASX falls 1pc; More Liberal chaos; Good, bad, ugly of corporate Oz

Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.

Nick Candy, Elon Musk and Nigel Farage at Mar-a-Lago after their meeting.

Musk is ‘ready to bankroll’ UK populist Farage. Is Australia next?

The Reform UK leader is potentially in line for a massive injection of support from the X owner. Could the billionaire be looking at Down Under, too?

President-elect Donald Trump smiles during an America First Policy Institute gala at his Mar-a-Lago estate last month.

What really goes on at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s ‘medieval court’

The 126-room mansion in Florida has become a scene of spectacular shindigs and high-stakes meetings with foreign leaders, effectively becoming a shadow White House.

Jaguar has released Type 00.

Jaguar unveils its radical new look

Nobody has talked this much about Jaguar since it launched the spectacular E-Type coupe in the early 1960s. The put up or shut up moment has arrived with the release of the Type 00.

November 2024

Kevin Rudd and key Donald Trump adviser Dan Scavino.

Trump’s Scavino nomination adds to pressure on Rudd

The president-elect’s choice of a trusted aide, who has suggested Australia’s US ambassador is unfit, could become a problem next year.

August 2024

Police clash with right-wing protesters in Manchester at the weekend.

UK police prepare for further clashes with far right

PM Keir Starmer said this week authorities had agreed to mobilise a “standing army” of officers to deal with the anti-migrant and anti-Muslim disorder.

July 2024

Nigel Farage’s ambition will only have been fortified by his modest parliamentary breakthrough and the 98 seats where Reform is currently in second place, almost all of them to Labour.

The fight for the UK right has begun

Surrendering to the Faragist path rather than taking it on and defeating it would herald the end of the centre right and a capitulation to unserious politics.

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Keir Starmer UK Labour leader

Labour’s sweeping victory in Britain is terrible news for Peter Dutton

The UK general election was fought over problems that are familiar to many Australian voters, which is why the outcome looks bad for the Coalition.

Knives out: Tory collapse sparks bitter blame game

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is under fire after an exit poll shows the Conservative Party is set for the worst result in its history.

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Labour landslide; Starmer should worry Albo; Stock picker’s $46m spree

Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak after acknowledging Labour had won the election.

The Conservatives imploded. Labour simply filled the vacuum

Labour’s landslide shares some parallels with Tony Blair’s 1997 win but those end with Keir Starmer’s small target strategy and threadbare policy.

Keir Starmer chose not to make Brexit an election issue. But once victory is secured he must hammer the point home.

Why Starmer should now play prosecutor on Brexit

Labour and the Tories have avoided the topic, but a full audit of the impact of leaving the EU would deliver political and economic benefits to incoming ministers.

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