Category: Politics

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has asked Sen. Mitch McConnell to “directly and verbally address” their constituents or resign, the Democratic governor’s latest demand for transparency regarding the 84-year-old Republican lawmaker’s condition as he recovers from a fall and pneumonia. “I am addressing this letter to Senator McConnell under the assumption that he is capable of…

Since Donald Trump’s second term as president began, the administration has scrambled to hollow out much of the federal government, but the number of high-profile resignations has been quite small. The Republican operation went to extraordinary lengths to ensure partisan loyalists held positions of influence, reducing the likelihood that anyone would quit in frustration. There…

Young people will be expected to engage with new support to find work, Pat McFadden has said, as he announced funds to stop families losing benefits when teenagers take up apprenticeships.Speaking to the Guardian, the work and pensions secretary echoed the comments of Andy Burnham when he suggested that access to support would be conditional…

C’est magnifique, mais ce n’est pas la guerre. Captain Chris ‘Hunter-Killer’ Philp had been on patrol since first light in the English Channel. While the rest of the country was still asleep, the Philpster was scanning the horizon for rubber dinghies full of illegal immigrants. Something he had never done in his previous life as…

In the spring, as the war with Iran continued to unfold, many U.S. officials expressed concerns about the state of the military’s weapons stockpiles. The New York Times reported in May, for example, “Inventories of air-defense missiles, air-launched stealth cruise missiles and Tomahawk missiles have all been greatly reduced because of the war, and will…

The campaign group Led By Donkeys has received £27,000 in compensation after a giant banner it displayed in Parliament Square saying “Yes it’s a Genocide” was seized by Greater London Authority officials and destroyed.Representatives of the GLA arrived on the scene in central London and confiscated the 40-metre by 40-metre banner after it was unfurled…