Viktor Orbán’s crushing defeat in Hungary’s parliamentary election, with Peter Magyar’s Tisza party taking over 53 per cent of the vote to Fidesz’s 38 per cent, with results pointing to Tisza winning a crucial two-thirds majority with 135 seats in the 199-member parliament, is more than the end of a 16-year autocracy. It is a […]
Nigel Farage
The fraudster who is Farage’s right-hand man
George Cottrell is unusual, to say the least, in British political life: a man with a serious American felony conviction who has nevertheless embedded himself as a trusted figure within Nigel Farage’s inner circle, helping fund his foreign travel and advising Reform UK with apparent impunity. Born into considerable privilege, Cottrell’s background reads like a […]
The promise that never was: Nigel Farage and the art of barefaced denial
It’s a script Nigel Farage knows well. Candidates or causes closely linked to him, perhaps even bearing his name and his photograph, make large, attention-grabbing promises. Votes are won on the strength of them. Then, once the votes are counted the promises are declared – with an air of wounded innocence – to have never […]
Farage splits far right with London mayor candidate
Nigel Farage’s announcement that Laila Cunningham will be Reform UK’s candidate for London mayor in 2028 has triggered an immediate split on the British far right. The decision has divided Reform’s own base and is likely to sharpen its rivalry with Ben Habib’s Advance UK, itself a breakaway from Reform. The selection of a Muslim […]
Musk’s GROK says Farage is talking tosh on London ‘crime wave’
According to Nigel Farage, announcing today that Laila Cunningham will be Reform UK’s candidate for London mayor in 2028, the capital under Labour mayor Sadiq Khan, is “in the grip of a crime wave”. So, we asked Elon Musk’s AI platform Grok if it was true. Guess what…
Local council chaos and scandal threaten Reform’s national ambitions
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK stormed into local government in May 2025, winning hundreds of seats across England and seizing control of county councils once thought impregnable. It was hailed as a political earthquake, a populist breakthrough that would reshape local democracy. We have already taken a close look at what happened in Kent where, as […]