Opinion

Published: 14 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online US President Donald Trump has urged voters in Alaska to support Republican Senator Dan Sullivan in the state’s closely contested Senate election, warning that a second candidate with a nearly identical name could confuse voters and potentially alter the outcome of one of the most closely watched races in the November midterm elections. Speaking at a packed gathering...

Published: 12 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Pakistan has declared a state of emergency in the north-western province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and suspended its provincial government, sharply escalating an already tense confrontation with imprisoned former prime minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party. PTI has condemned the decision as an attempt to remove its elected administration under the cover of an emergency, warning that the move...

Published: 09 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Britain’s Labour Party has defeated the Green Party in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election, delivering an important victory for Prime Minister Andy Burnham and dealing a setback to Green leader Zack Polanski’s ambitions to become a dominant force on the political left. Labour candidate Sagal Abdi-Wali secured 12,292 votes, representing 45% of the total, while Polanski finished...

Published: 09 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Britain’s latest party conference season has exposed a shifting political landscape, with Labour leader Andy Burnham emerging as one of its biggest winners, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch strengthening her position, and several opposition figures facing renewed questions about their leadership, political judgement and public appeal. The conferences offered parties an opportunity to define their priorities, present themselves as...

Published: 09 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Britain’s Labour Party has won the closely watched Holborn and St Pancras by-election, defeating the Green Party in a contest that could influence the balance of power on the political left and shape the government’s standing in London. Labour candidate Sagal Abdi-Wali secured 12,292 votes, representing 45% of the total, while Green Party leader Zack Polanski finished second...

Published: 08 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Voting has opened in the high-stakes Holborn and St Pancras by-election, with the contest expected to provide an important test of the political strength of Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s Labour government and the ability of the Green party to continue taking support from voters on the left. The north London constituency was previously represented by Keir Starmer, who...

Published: 09 September 2026.The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. A year after the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, the organisation he founded is still grappling with grief, political pressure and deep questions over how to move forward without the man who built it from a small youth movement into a powerful force within American conservative politics. Turning Point USA, the ultraconservative activist organisation founded by Kirk in...

Published: 05 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Britain’s political landscape has become so unstable in recent years that even the country’s revolving door of prime ministers has begun to look like a permanent feature of public life. For columnist and author Marina Hyde, the turbulence has produced an extraordinary mixture of political drama, social disorder, celebrity spectacle and technological absurdity. Yet beneath the humour and...

Published: 05 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. A federal judge has declined to temporarily block the Pentagon from dismissing journalists at the military newspaper Stars and Stripes, allowing the US Department of Defense to proceed with the firings while a broader legal dispute over press freedom and editorial independence continues. The ruling represents a setback for three journalists who challenged the Pentagon’s actions in federal...