Is Britain’s ailing Conservative Party finally over?
Tribalism has engulfed European convervatism – and Kemi Badenoch’s Tories might be next on chopping block
Nigel Farage
Self-appointed ‘Safeguard Force’ sparks debate over who should patrol Britain’s streets
Volunteers keep Bournemouth’s streets safe, group says, but others worry about vigilantes
Lib Dems gleeful as party eyes historic shift in British politics
Faithful see their party as the ‘liberal antidote’ to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK
Conservative MP Danny Kruger defects to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK
Move follows that of Nadine Dorries earlier this month
Miriam Margolyes: ‘I can do naughty stories... but I’m more than just a potty mouth’
The British veteran of stage and screen on visiting Ireland, speaking out against Israel and being known for more than her ‘naughty stories’
Diarmaid Ferriter on Speaking My Mind by Leo Varadkar: Jaunty but superficial and lazy at times
Former taoiseach provides gossip and entertaining titbits but displays detachment about matters of substance
How the Nigel Farage factor could upend the Belfast Agreement
Quitting the European Convention on Human Rights is the latest talking point among those eager to tighten immigration control
Labour’s ‘King of the North’ highlights growing problem facing Keir Starmer
Labour backbenches are uneasy, which is where the British prime minister’s northern problem comes in
I dare you to walk through Dublin city centre of an evening. You won’t believe what you see
Irish social media is engulfed with paranoia. But at the capital’s heart is an extraordinary energy from which new ideas and fresh cultures emerge
Is Britain headed for prime minister Nigel Farage?
Reform UK conference devotees cheer their man as Labour faces yet more turmoil
Keir Starmer faces real peril in defining period as MPs return
UK prime minister must overturn Reform’s migration-fuelled summer dominance, while crucial budget also looms into view
Does Jim Gavin have what it takes for a presidential campaign?
Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan
Nigel Farage’s immigration bombshell raises nationalist hopes and unionist fears
Unionism still faces a hard new political reality if Northern Ireland comes to be seen in Britain as an obstacle to controlling immigration
Reform UK announces plan to repeal human rights laws and deport all asylum seekers
Nigel Farage says party would remove Britain from the European Convention on Human Rights and disapply international treaties
JD Vance hasn’t mastered the art of the political holiday
August has given me time to think about how politicians holiday. Most of them do it badly
The Irish Times view on UK online safety rules: a new wedge issue in British politics
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage opposes the legislation, but offers no convincing solution to the growing crisis of harmful online content
The truth is out there: how many disgruntled ex-Tories can Nigel Farage’s Reform UK swallow?
A UFO-hunting police and crime commissioner is the latest to switch
‘Isn’t it brilliant’ a mother says, photographing her children at the bonfire topped with an effigy of a migrant boat
Police Service of Northern Ireland investigates ‘hate crime’ following reports of material atop bonfire
Starmer pokes fun at Farage’s expense, but Reform leader may have the last laugh as migration looms large in UK-France summit
Britain’s prime minister badly needs an asylum seeker returns deal with France
Irishman Morgan McSweeney: the softly-spoken chief of staff to Keir Starmer now facing questions
Chief of staff to UK prime minister argues government needs to head off Nigel Farage by leaning to the right
A Nigel Farage-led UK goverment could herald a united Ireland – Varadkar
Former taoiseach hopes Farage win does not happen, but Irish Government should be ‘just-in-case’ planning
Rory Stewart: Britons’ view of Ireland has gone from ‘patronising superiority to complete ignorance’
Ireland is the UK’s best route back to better ties with the EU, says the former Conservative minister
Nigel Farage sets Britain’s political weather but Reform UK has clouds in its own sky
Despite success with voters, recent upheaval was a reminder that Farage’s party can still self-harm
Rise of backward-looking nationalism is not the preserve of the populist right. Just ask Sinn Féin
Sinn Féin objections to the planned commemoration of the Normans might be regarded as inconsequential but they reveal a more sinister objective
If there’s so much buyer’s remorse about Brexit, why is Nigel Farage the rising figure in UK politics?
Ten years on, an angry tribe sees itself as more English than British - and Ireland must stay alert to the dangers
Aontú Ireland rejects comparison to Farage’s Reform UK
Party emphasises left-wing credentials as members vote on matters including immigration and flag displays at ardfheis
Quentin Tarantino understood something Joe Biden did not - how to quit while you’re ahead
The director understood people will remember how you left with grace just as much as they remember how you performed at your peak
Cara Darmody protest to bring political pressure
The number of children awaiting assessment for six months or longer will grow from 15,000 now to 25,000 by the end of the year, according to HSE estimates
Explainer: what is Keir Starmer’s Brexit reset deal?
The UK’s new post-Brexit trade deal with Brussels is being heralded as a new era for relations
Defence pact likely to be centrepiece of EU-UK ‘reset’ summit in London
Keir Starmer to host Ursula von der Leyen for UK’s first formal summit with Brussels since Brexit, with talks on knife edge
What does the surge of Farage’s Reform mean for UK politics?
Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan
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
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