Reform UK claims to speak up for downtrodden workers. Apparently that includes mega-rich crypto billionaires. Westminster is ripe with scandals these days, but The Guardian just uncovered a whopper. Cryptocurrency billionaire Christopher Harborne reportedly gave Farage an undisclosed £5m personal gift just before he announced he’d run for his seat in Clacton in 2024. That tax-free gift […]
Peter Thiel’s company now admits they want to govern for us. Will we let them? Peter Thiel’s Palantir drew a lot of attention last weekend for a tweet that reads like the monologue of a cartoon villain. In a long post, they endorse the arguments made in The Technological Republic, a 2025 book written by the company’s […]
As politicians put on a patriotic pantomime, a whole generation feels alienated from a country that no longer seems to work for them. St George’s day (April 23) generally marks the start of a peculiar season in British politics. Debates over English identity and patriotism are re-ignited and rehashed anew. Politicians play tug-of-war with a […]
Easily missed in the sea of political chaos that is Westminster today, there is a diamond in the rough: Britain actually has positive elections legislation on the docket in Parliament. Imagine that. I’ll tell you what I like about the Representation of the People Bill (RPB, formerly referred to as the Elections Bill) – and why, given […]
It’s no secret that the political right in Britain largely takes its cues from Donald Trump. They regurgitate MAGA’s culture-war talking points, recycle the same influencers and Roman-statue ‘X’ accounts, and – in Reform UK’s case – directly import disastrous schemes like Elon Musk’s DOGE. Trump says jump; they ask how high. So it’s not […]
Who is Christopher Harborne? Very little is publicly known about the reclusive, Thailand-based technology investor – except that he is now one of the biggest political donors in British history. His record £9m donation to Reform UK this September is only the latest in a long trail of donations to right-wing populists. Harborne previously poured more […]