“IF ABDUL CAN win in Michigan, anybody can win anywhere,” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez proclaimed last month, in comments leaked to the New York Times. The progressive congresswoman’s hopes came true this week when Abdul El-Sayed, a strident left-winger, won the state’s Senate race. But he had scarcely finished his victory speech when centrist Democrats raced to

The blame started before voting in America’s midterm elections ended and the extent of the Republicans’ drubbing was revealed. In an interview on election day Donald Trump said that America would cut off military aid to Israel “at the end of the year”. Israel no longer needs it, he explained; the country is “thriving”. But

Of course, it was the Iran war—though I don’t think people, including Vice President JD Vance, are fully putting their finger on why. US President Donald Trump speaks before boarding Air Force One en route to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, US, November 6, 2026. REUTERS/Eric Lee (REUTERS) Fairly

WASHINGTON—With the midterms over, President Trump’s advisers and foreign allies have been racing to shape his decision on whether to end the Iran war or reignite it. President Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Voters soundly repudiated the war at the ballot box, then Vice President JD Vance questioned whether it

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has defended his call to cut the number of police forces in England and Wales through mergers. The Scotland Yard chief said his proposals, set out in a major speech were the “opposite of Beeching” – in reference to the “Beeching Axe” of local railway services in the 1960s.

Andy Burnham was a foreign-policy novice when he became Britain’s prime minister in July. His 30-year political career has been occupied almost entirely with domestic affairs, and he has seemed content with that. On being elected the MP for Makerfield in Greater Manchester, he promised to apply a “Makerfield test” to every decision he makes.