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Podcast: Mid-Atlantic - conversations about US, UK and world politics
Episode: Reform and Fallout
Description: 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 hap...