Mid-atlantic - Conversations About Us, Uk And World Politics

A defection, a photocopied resignation, and an airborne crisis: welcome to politics in 2026.In this week’s episode of Mid-Atlantic, Royfield Brown leads a transatlantic panel through the latest signs of fracture on the British right and a chaotic shift in U.S. foreign policy. Robert Jenrick’s defection from the Conservatives to Reform UK is dissected not as a grand ideological realignment, but as a cynical career move amid a floundering party machine. Corey Bernard and Tanya Altrade offer little sympathy, framing the departure as more “photocopier farce” than political earthquake, while Logan Phillips warns of what happens when short-termism becomes the only strategy left standing.Attention then pivots to Washington, where Trump’s erratic foreign policy has turned the Monroe Doctrine into something far more impulsive—and combustible. From the disastrous optics of promising support to Iranian protesters (then ghosting them), to the bizarre muscle-flexing over Greenland, Logan paints a picture of a White House