A handful of Kneecap festival performances have been cancelled as counter-terrorism police investigate footage which allegedly shows the band calling for the deaths of MPs and shouting “up Hamas, up Hezbollah”. Politicians are pushing for the group to be dropped from the Glastonbury Festival line-up while artists including Pulp, Paul Weller, DJ Annie Mac, Massive…
The Mirror looks at the key battlegrounds with over 1,000 council seats are up for grabs across 23 local authorities in the first major electoral test since the General Election A total of 1,641 council seats are up for grabs across 23 local authorities while four regional mayors and two local mayors will also be…
Political leaders are making their final pleas for votes ahead of Thursday’s local elections. Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has declared this week’s ballots are not about issues like immigration, but about who is going to fix the roads or collect the bins. But Nigel Farage has pointed towards the small boats crisis, stalling economy and…
Britain’s populist party, Reform U.K., was expected to bring in more than $1.25 million dollars at a glitzy fund-raiser on Tuesday, a party official said, an extraordinary amount for a party that six months ago was on the fringe of national politics. The big-ticket, American-style event was the first major fund-raiser since Nigel Farage took…
They are ripe for disruption. Well before Mr. Musk first backed the AfD, it had become the second most-popular party in Germany. The Social Democrats, the country’s oldest party which once routinely won more than 40 percent of the vote, are polling at a historic low of 16 percent ahead of next month’s election. The…
Britain’s government on Thursday bowed to pressure and announced new investigations into child sexual exploitation and abuse, less than a month after Elon Musk, the billionaire tech mogul, used his social media platform X to highlight the issue in a series of vitriolic posts. Speaking in Parliament, Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, said she had…