We live in turbulent times, if you'll pardon the obvious. A new empire, China, threatens the hegemony of another, the United States. New technologies like artificial intelligence propel us into the unknown. Mass migrations alter societies' self-perception. The basest popular passions (racism, xenophobia, classism) are unleashed, the middle class is sinking, and truth and lies are becoming blurred. And not even the most robust democratic mechanisms seem capable of surviving the chaos.

"You need to wake up; your party is dying." This was the warning issued this Wednesday during the weekly government question time. premier Keir Starmer lashed out at British Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch.

Just under a year before the 2014 European elections, Nigel Farage He was convinced that the party he then led, UKIP, would cause a "political earthquake." It was September 2013, and during the party's annual conference, he claimed credit for changing the terms of the debate on immigration and the United Kingdom's then-membership of the European Union. Many didn't take him seriously, but UKIP eventually won the election, with 27% of the vote.

The populist and xenophobic Nigel Farage has once again put immigration at the center of his latest political bout. In fact, it's the only topic he talks about, and it's gradually gaining traction, consolidating his hopes of reaching Downing Street, even though the general elections are still four years away. However, this Monday he went even further than his usual demonization of foreigners.

On September 7, returning from a flying visit to Edinburgh, this correspondent stopped for refreshments at Darlington, a market town –historical category that designates populations with the right to hold a weekly market, but which cannot be called city, Despite its current population of 110,000, it is located in County Durham, in the north of England, 56 km south of Newcastle. London is a long way off, but the impact of the resignation of the deputy prime minister for failing to pay the taxes she should have paid is still noticeable.

New boom-boom-boom against migrants. Trumpism and the far right are advancing at a forced pace in the United Kingdom. Looking at US policies, Reform Party leader Nigel Farage took another step Tuesday in blaming all the country's ills on the people who arrive on the islands by boat and without documentation across the English Channel.

Nine years after Nigel Farage shook up the British political landscape with the Brexit referendum and the subsequent the United Kingdom's exit from the European UnionThe populist and anti-immigration leader, a friend of Donald Trump and supporter of many of his policies, with the exception of tariffs, issued a warning this Thursday to the traditional two-party system in the United Kingdom. elections this Thursday, in two of the six contested mayoralties and also in a constituency in the northwest of England in the House of Commons. In the latter case, the RUK snatched the Runcorn and Helsby seat (in northwest England) from Labour by just six votes, overturning the government's 2024 majority of more than 14,000. The result was announced early Friday morning after a second count, which widened the gap between the two parties from four to six.

Keir Starmer's government has come to the conclusion that it must not only say what it is doing in terms of immigration, with specific data on how it combats irregular arrivals in the country, but it must also offer images to the public of the heavy-handed way it treats those who are in the country without papers.

Keir Starmer's government has come to the conclusion that it must not only say what it is doing in terms of immigration, with specific data on how it combats irregular arrivals in the country, but it must also offer images to the public of the heavy-handed way it treats those who are in the country without papers.