LONDON — Elon Musk met British right-winger Nigel Farage at Mar-a-Lago on Monday, Farage’s Reform U.K. announced. The tech tycoon was pictured smiling with Farage and Nick Candy — the businessperson recently appointed as Reform U.K.’s treasurer — for an hour-long meeting at the resort in Florida owned by President-elect Donald Trump. The news will spark further speculation about whether Musk intends to assist Farage’s party — which he has publicly praised while sharply criticizing Britain’s incumbent Labour government. Farage has claimed Musk is “very supportive” of him, but denied he’s sought donations from the world’s richest man. “We had…
Author: Andrew McDonald
LONDON — The British government on Monday appointed a former senior official under Tony Blair’s administration as its new envoy to the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. Michael Barber — who served under former PM Blair as head of his Downing Street delivery unit two decades ago — will become the U.K’s envoy on Palestinian Authority Governance. A No. 10 Downing Street statement said Monday that Barber will support the Palestinian Authority — the Fatah government which only partially controls the Israeli-occupied West Bank — as it implements its “vital reform agenda to strengthen its delivery capacity and improve…
ROME — Britain’s new Prime Minister Keir Starmer heaped fulsome praise on his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni for clamping down on migration — despite complaints from his own party back home. Speaking Monday at a joint press conference in Rome, Starmer said Meloni had made “remarkable progress” in cutting irregular migration — and vowed to learn lessons for his own fledgling Labour government. “You’ve made remarkable progress working with countries along migration routes as equals to address the drivers of migration at source and to tackle the gangs. And as a result, irregular arrivals to Italy by sea are down…
LONDON — Elon Musk branded Humza Yousaf “super-super racist,” as he continued a feud with the former Scottish leader and capped a week of beefing with British politicians. Yousaf led Scotland as first minister between 2023 and 2024. He’s previously clashed with the X-owning billionaire — and laid into him again in recent days after Musk pushed inaccurate claims about riots that have swept Britain. Musk has meanwhile been accused by politicians of failing to tackle far-right disinformation on his platform. Speaking at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival Thursday, Yousaf described the X owner as “one of the most dangerous men…
LONDON — Elon Musk is at it again. Amid an ongoing feud with the British government about unrest on the country’s streets, the billionaire X owner boosted, and then deleted, an entirely-manufactured news headline Thursday pushed by a far-right political party. Musk shared a fake headline — purporting to be from the Telegraph newspaper — that said U.K. PM Keir Starmer is “considering building ’emergency detainment camps’ on the Falkland Islands” to house far-right rioters arrested in the country’s round of race riots. A cursory Google search for the headline would have quickly proved that it isn’t real. The Telegraph…