Farage Says He Talked to Musk Last Week. Relationship is ‘Fine.’

Farage Says He Talked to Musk Last Week. Relationship is ‘Fine.’

Three weeks after a very public rift, the populist British politician Nigel Farage said on Wednesday that his relationship with Elon Musk was “fine” and that the two men had spoken just last week. Mr. Farage, in a brief interview with The New York Times, said that Mr. Musk, the world’s richest man, remained open … Read more

Reform U.K. is Said to Land Over $1 Million in Populist Show of Force

Reform U.K. is Said to Land Over $1 Million in Populist Show of Force

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 … Read more

How Elon Musk is Using Start-Up Tactics to Disrupt European Politics

How Elon Musk is Using Start-Up Tactics to Disrupt European Politics

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 … Read more