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…
Author: Andrew McDonald
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…