Nigel Farage

In defence of vox-pop journalism

Spontaneous interviews offer a vital insight into the lives of ordinary people

By Anoosh Chakelian

Is Makerfield a dead end for the Greens?

Internal division over whether to run a “full campaign” is a sign of things to come

By Megan Kenyon

It’s Makerfield or break for Andy Burnham

This by-election is a once-in-a-lifetime, all-out fight between social democracy and right-wing populism

By Andrew Marr

Where does Nigel Farage get his money?

Christopher Harborne’s £5m donation is just the tip of the iceberg

By Will Dunn

Did Farage give our Guardian scoop to the Telegraph?

Also: the electoral wisdom of on-the-ground reporters, and jet lag meets its match

By Katharine Viner

How to stop Reform

Jeremy Corbyn, Gary Stevenson, Suzanne Moore, Zack Polanski and others reflect on Nigel Farage’s surging party

By New Statesman

Labour’s Reform defectors are never coming back

After years of neglecting progressives, the party must learn there is no such thing as a “hero voter”.

By Anoosh Chakelian

A trip home to Farage country

Also: alternative medicines, and lessons from Imperial China

By Will Lloyd

How Labour can win again

Working-class voters did not abandon the party – we have forced them to leave

By Al Carns

The British right still hasn’t recovered from Brexit

Farage and Badenoch are caught in the long shadow of 2016

By Andrew Gamble

Labour’s post-mortem debate begins

The old two-party system is well and truly dead

By Ethan Croft

From “pint influencers” to Starmer’s niece: meet the young politicos vying for power

One party is a clear winner among young voters

By Bartholomew Roberts

Exclusive: Half of Reform voters concerned by Nigel Farage £5m gift

Two-thirds fear billionaire’s personal payment buys “inappropriate” political influence

By Anoosh Chakelian

Reform UK doesn’t like you

The party has pledged to build detention centres in areas that do not vote for it

By Ethan Croft

Stevenage Woman keeps thinking about Nigel Farage

The Shy Reform effect (including among its own candidates) could reshape this classic Labour-Tory bellwether

By Anoosh Chakelian

Is Andy Burnham actually the answer?

The barriers to his coronation are practical, not political

By Jonn Elledge

Nigel Farage fights for the limelight

The Reform leader’s deportation plans failed to make a splash

By Rachel Cunliffe

Basildon Man wants reform

Can Nigel Farage win the homeland of Thatcherism?

By Laura Beveridge

Nigel Farage faces a Nigel Farage problem

Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain is starting to take support from Reform

By Ethan Croft

Has Reform UK discovered human rights?

In order to secure its funding from overseas billionaires, the party seems to be embracing the ECHR

By Phil Tinline