Politics

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...

Published: 03 September 2026.The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Green Party leader Zack Polanski has announced that he intends to seek the party’s nomination for the forthcoming byelection in Holborn and St Pancras, the London constituency being vacated by former prime minister Keir Starmer. Polanski, leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, said he wanted to represent residents of the central London constituency and would focus...

Published: 03 September 2026.The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. US President Donald Trump has intensified his criticism of Canada as efforts to revive trade negotiations between the two North American neighbours remain stalled, raising fresh concerns over the economic consequences of an escalating tariff dispute. Speaking during a press conference with US travel industry executives, Trump said Canada had treated the United States unfairly for decades. His comments...

Published: 01 September 2026 | The English Chronicle Desk | The English Chronicle Online Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has received a significant political boost after his Liberal Party swept all three parliamentary special elections held on Monday, strengthening the government's position as it faces continuing economic and diplomatic tensions with the United States. The results saw the Liberals retain two constituencies in Ontario and British Columbia while also taking...

**Published: 31 August 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online** A US federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration acted unlawfully when it targeted artificial intelligence company Anthropic after the company refused to accept unrestricted military use of its Claude AI models. US District Judge Rita F. Lin said the Pentagon's decision to designate Anthropic as a national security supply-chain risk amounted to unlawful retaliation and violated...

Published: 31 August 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. The devastation in the village of Myla, just outside Kyiv, has left residents confronting not only the consequences of another deadly Russian attack but also difficult questions about why a major ammunition depot was located so close to ordinary homes. A Russian strike on the warehouse site triggered a devastating series of explosions that continued for hours, killing...

Published: 29 August 2026.The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Prime Minister Andy Burnham is heading towards his first major autumn budget under growing pressure from a combination of worsening economic conditions, strict fiscal commitments, rising defence costs and promises to ease the financial burden on households. Burnham returned to Westminster promising what he described as one of the most significant moments of political change in Britain for decades....

Published: 29 August 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. The University of Exeter has approved plans for a formal partnership with Saudi Arabia that will see its academics provide advanced education and training to senior military officers and government officials in Riyadh, prompting criticism over the university’s relationship with a government long criticised for its human rights record. The agreement could generate millions of pounds for the...

Published: 29 August 2026 .The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. A small Norfolk town with a long history of migration and cultural integration has become the centre of an increasingly bitter dispute over plans to accommodate asylum seekers at a nearby former military base, with repeated demonstrations and several nights of violent disorder deepening tensions in the community. Thetford, a town closely associated with the popular British television...