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

Episode SummaryOn this week’s Mid-Atlantic, Roifield Brown convenes his transatlantic panel to examine two democracies straining under the weight of power, personality and public distrust. In Washington, President Trump’s State of the Union address is dissected less as governing document and more as performance art, heavy on self congratulation, generous with medals and applause lines, and sharply combative toward Democrats. The panel questions whether such rhetoric represents democratic resilience, institutions holding firm, or simply the normalization of political antagonism as spectacle.Across the Atlantic, the arrest of Prince Andrew under investigation, alongside renewed scrutiny stemming from the Epstein files, pushes Britain into uncomfortable constitutional territory. Is this elite accountability finally catching up with power, or is it a carefully managed distancing exercise by an institution that has survived by cutting loose liabilities? The monarchy’s durability, its relationship to political neut