Farage says Reform has contacted X'to highest level' over fake AI ads Reform leader Nigel Farage has called on X to act over a series of fake, AI-generated adverts which depict him fighting Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey. The ads - showing the Reform leader and Bank of England governor in a number of fake scenarios, on a set resembling BBC Question Time - have been repeatedly shown to X users in the UK in recent days. Farage told reporters on Tuesday that Reform UK contacted X on Monday to the highest level - adding he hoped it would take action to remove the ads incredibly quickly. The BBC has approached X for comment. It comes after the Bank of England also urged X users to report the ads, where seen.

Elon Musk endorses Advance UK , a new right-wing party led by Ben Habib that challenges Britain's traditional two-party political system.

Elon Musk appears to have many obsessions. The world's richest man is evangelical about electric vehicles, space travel and Donald Trump. Another of his interests may yet have profound consequences for the UK: British politics. The billionaire is reported to be thinking of becoming the biggest donor in history with a rumoured 80m payment to Nigel's Farage's Reform UK party. Like so many who embraced Trump's bellicose brand of rightwing populism, Musk was radicalised by his frustration at lockdowns, according to Musk watchers.

What could be more delightful than a trip to Greece to meet Yanis Varoufakis, the charismatic leftwing firebrand who tried to stick it to the man, AKA the IMF, EU and entire global financial order? The mental imagery I have before the visit is roughly two parts Zorba the Greek to one part an episode of BBC series Holiday from the Jill Dando era: blue skies, blue sea, maybe some plate breaking in a jolly taverna. What I'm not expecting is a wall of flames rippling across a hillside next to the highway from the airport and a plume of black smoke billowing across the carriageway. Because even a modernist villa on a hillside on the island of Aegina – a fast ferry ride from the port of Piraeus and the summer bolthole of chic Athenians – is not the sanctuary from the modern world that it might once have been. The house is where Varoufakis and his wife, landscape artist Danae Stratou, live, year round since the pandemic, but in August 2023 at the end of a summer of heatwaves and extreme weather conditions across the world, it feels more than a little apocalyptic. The sun is a dim orange orb struggling to shine through a haze of smoke while a shower of fine ash falls invisibly from the sky.

Additional documents from former special counsel Robert Mueller's report provide a layer of texture to the Russiagate scandal. YOU THOUGHT THE MUELLER REPORT WAS OVER, didn't you? Well, yesterday, BuzzFeed's Jason Leopold -- a level 19 FOIA ninja -- and his colleagues got their hands on detailed summaries of the interviews three Trump aides gave to the FBI, known as "302 reports," along with other documents. And while they don't appreciably change our understanding of the Russiagate scandal, they do add a layer of texture to what we already knew. And even after his firing, he was still in touch with top campaign officials up to Election Day, though campaign'CEO' Steve Bannon warned in an email to Jared Kushner: "We need to avoid this guy like the plague."

The US billionaire who helped bankroll Donald Trump's campaign for the presidency played a key role in the campaign for Britain to leave the EU, the Observer has learned. It has emerged that Robert Mercer, a hedge-fund billionaire, who helped to finance the Trump campaign and who was revealed this weekend as one of the owners of the rightwing Breitbart News Network, is a long-time friend of Nigel Farage. He directed his data analytics firm to provide expert advice to the Leave campaign on how to target swing voters via Facebook – a donation of services that was not declared to the electoral commission. Cambridge Analytica, an offshoot of a British company, SCL Group, which has 25 years' experience in military disinformation campaigns and "election management", claims to use cutting-edge technology to build intimate psychometric profiles of voters to find and target their emotional triggers. Trump's team paid the firm more than $6m (£4.8m) to target swing voters, and it has now emerged that Mercer also introduced the firm – in which he has a major stake – to Farage. The communications director of Leave.eu,

European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker has urged UK to "clarify its position" on Brexit as soon as possible. He told the European parliament that Britain and the EU remained friends but it needed to state its position to avoid uncertainty. PM David Cameron is to meet European Union leaders for the first time since the UK voted to leave later on Tuesday. He is stepping down to allow his successor to conduct exit negotiations. Mr Cameron has said it will be up to the next prime minister when to trigger the formal method by which a country leaves the EU, Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty.