UKIP

National pride is something that many people find deeply divisive in the UK, especially when it comes to England. You’d think it divides quite neatly down the middle of the political spectrum. You expect it from UKIP and the right, all the painting faces red-and-white and draping a St...

It was noon on the 22nd of November when I first met Paul Nuttall. We were stood on a small grassy hill overlooking Dealey Plaza, people milled about busily. There was an excitement in the crisp air; it was unseasonably warm even for Texas, and a crowd seemed to...

There’s something disarming about the way Francesco Lari, chairman of UKIP’s Nottingham City Branch, half-seriously apologises for only having time to have a quick 10-minute chat before he needs to get back to work. “As you can see, I’m not a professional politician”. For any UKIP member, the student crowd...

The end of the story or a new chapter: what next for UKIP? The moustache probably gave it away. In one of the more bizarre and quite frankly traumatic stories after Brexit, the acceptance Nigel Farage displayed when a dead ferret proceeded to curl up on his top lip...

“We need a fresh face.” These were the words that UKIP’s one and only MP, Douglas Carswell, uttered just last Friday. He was of course talking about his desire for a change in the party’s leadership; out with the Farage and in with the new. He was always a...

This week Tommy Robinson, former leader of the Community Service stampede that is the English Defence League, is to speak at the Durham Union. This is a serious departure for a man who changed his name from Stephen Lennon, presumably because it didn’t sound racist enough. With the EDL...

Jeremy Clarkson is no politician, but he certainly acts like one. His media exposure allows him to campaign vociferously and eloquently, like a Daily Mail-endorsed middle finger stuck up at the Left, the Environment, and anything containing the words “health” and “safety”. And with over 1,000,000 signatories to the...