On the morning of October 1st, 2025, as the first budget deadline of the fiscal year passed, the U.S. federal government once again shut down. Congress had failed to approve spending bills to keep the government running, an event that has become as predictable as it is damaging. This year’s shutdown is not simply about dollars and cents; it is about identity, strategy, and the politics of spectacle. Hundreds of thousands of federal workers are furloughed, paychecks are halte

Having shut down the government for the first time in 6 years on October 1st, it has now become the 3rd longest in American history at the time of writing. With no end in sight, President Trump may have a new record to add to his administrations ‘achievements’, including the first to be led by a convicted felon. For our readers who are less familiar with how our neighbours across the pond do things, the American government is once again fighting on how to spend money. Congres

The picture on the 3rd September of Democratic Liberal, Ro Khanna and libertarian GOP congressman, Thomas Massie, holding a press conference together demanding the immediate release of the entire “Epstein Files”, stood as a rare glimmer of limited bipartisan cooperation, in an era of tribalistic political divisions within America. What issue reconciled the interests of such diametrically opposed political figures into co-sponsoring a so-called “Epstein files transparency act

October 2025 saw the most recent Conservative Party conference and, whilst being ridiculed for their poor turnout, it detailed new plans the party had for the future, notably from MP Robert Jenrick, the shadow justice secretary. Whilst brandishing a judge's wig, Jenrick states that "We've got a problem" as he goes on to say how judges have been working with open borders charities and promoting this work on social media. Jenrick uses this idea, whilst promoting the Conservat