#Political Leadership

Articles (30)

• 🇺🇸 Potholes and progress: Mamdani reflects on 100 days as New York’s mayor — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  Mamdani's first 100 days marked by childcare reforms, pothole fixes and polarising debates over affordability policies.

  Related: #Urban Policy, #Social Welfare
• 🇺🇸 Labour’s deputy warns against ‘bloody’ leadership contest to replace Starmer — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  Lucy Powell, an ally of Andy Burnham, says party members would take ‘dim view’ of challenge despite looming election losses

  Related: #Party Unity, #Election Strategy
• 🇺🇸 Zohran Mamdani on 100 days as New York mayor — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  NYC’s mayor reflects on childcare, housing, bigotry, Iran and the future of the Democratic Party.

  Related: #Urban Policy, #Progressive Politics
• 🇺🇸 More New Yorkers back Mamdani but say city on wrong track: Poll — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  A plurality of New York voters approve of the job Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) is doing in office, but nearly 60 percent say their city is on the wrong track, according to a new poll released Thursday. In...

  Related: #Public Opinion, #Urban Politics
• 🇺🇸 Mamdani Asserts Control Over N.Y.P.D., Saying He Would Overrule Tisch — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Although Mayor Zohran Mamdani often seems to defer to his police commissioner, Jessica Tisch, he insisted that he had the final say in policing matters.

  Related: #Government Authority, #Police Administration
• 🇺🇸 Americans question Trump’s instinct on Iran war — 08/04/2026 [USA]

  Americans are split on whether to trust Donald Trump's instinct-driven approach to the Iran conflict.

  Related: #Foreign Policy, #Public Opinion
• 🇺🇸 Murphy deflects question on Schumer’s future as Senate leader — 22/03/2026 [USA]

  Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Sunday dodged a question about replacing Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) amid reports that a handful of senators are plotting to oust him. When asked if he...

  Related: #Party Dynamics
• 🇺🇸 Italy’s Leader Wants to Change the Constitution. Italians Don’t Get It. — 22/03/2026 [USA]

  Voting starts Sunday on a referendum to overhaul Italy’s judiciary. Many people don’t understand the complex proposal — and it could hurt Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

  Related: #Constitutional Reform
• 🇬🇧 As Starmer faces war overseas, his party can't find peace at home — 21/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  British politicians tend to stick together during dangerous moments abroad. In 2026? Not so much.

  Related: #Party Conflict
• 🇺🇸 Trump is dismantling democracy at 'unprecedented' speed, global report finds — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  Three major new studies on democracy and freedom all find the U.S. is slipping further away from democracy. Leaders of two of those studies say President Trump's goal is to rule as an autocrat.

  Related: #Democratic Erosion
• 🇺🇸 Can Military Excellence Save Us From Trump’s Incompetence? — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  It should never have come to this.

  Related: #Civil-Military Relations
• 🇺🇸 Trump Is Putting His Stamp on the World — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  Be careful what you wish for.

  Related: #Global Influence
• 🇬🇧 A ‘few scallywags’ gossiping or a premier under threat? Inside Labor’s push to ditch Jacinta Allan — 19/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>More than a dozen Victorian Labor sources, including ministers and factional powerbrokers, confirm move for leadership change</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/...

  Related: #Internal Conflict
• 🇬🇧 (Another) Labour Leadership Challenge? — 18/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Angela Rayner sparks leadership speculation claiming Labour is “running out of time”.

  Related: #Party Internal Conflict
• 🇬🇧 Trump v Starmer: will the special relationship survive? – The Latest — 18/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Kemi Badenoch has described Donald Trump’s criticism of Keir Starmer as ‘childish’ and said it ‘sends the wrong signal to our opponents in Iran or in Russia’.</p><p>Trump repeated his previous atta...

  Related: #International Relations
• 🇬🇧 Angela Rayner's explosive speech reignites leadership speculation — 18/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  The ex-deputy PM did not name Keir Starmer in her attack on Labour's direction and policies - but she did not have to.

  Related: #Party Dynamics
• 🇺🇸 How Trump Destroyed the Aura of the Wartime President — 16/03/2026 [USA]

  Even as he’s wrecking American institutions, he is revealing the limits of his cultural influence.

  Related: #Military Strategy
• 🇺🇸 Entering War’s Third Week, Trump Faces Stark Choices — 15/03/2026 [USA]

  As the conflict with Iran expands and intensifies, President Trump’s options — to fight on, or to move toward declaring victory and pulling back — both carry deeply problematic consequences.

  Related: #War Strategy
• 🇬🇧 The Mandelson papers reveal a prime minister who would rather not hear from dissenting voices | Gaby Hinsliff — 12/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Warnings were ignored and processes rushed because No 10 had already made up its mind to let Peter Mandelson sail through</p><p>The arrogance takes your breath away, even to the end. Sacked in disg...

  Related: #Government Transparency
• 🇺🇸 New Iranian Leader Was Wounded Early in the War, Iranian and Israeli Officials Say — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  Officials say Mojtaba Khamanei’s legs were hurt, but the circumstances as well as the extent of his injuries were unclear. He has remained out of view since being named leader three days ago.

  Related: #Military Conflict
• 🇺🇸 N Korea ‘respects’ Iran’s selection of Mojtaba Khamenei as supreme leader — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesperson condemns the US and Israel's 'unlawful military attack against Iran'.

  Related: #International Relations
• 🇺🇸 Trump "disappointed" in Iran's pick for supreme leader, says he likes "idea of internal" candidate — 09/03/2026 [USA]

  President Trump gave updates on the war in Iran on Monday, saying he was "disappointed" in the country's new choice of leadership, the former supreme leader's son, Mojtaba Khamenei. CBS News congressi...

  Related: #International Relations
• 🇺🇸 Trump says he is ’disappointed’ that Mojtaba Khamenei became Iran’s supreme leader — 09/03/2026 [USA] Related: #U.S.-Iran Relations
• 🇺🇸 Trump says he would be open to another religious leader in Iran — 06/03/2026 [USA]

  President Trump said on Friday that he would be open to having another religious figure to lead Iran following a joint U.S.-Israeli bombing campaign that killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei last week. When ...

  Related: #International Relations
• 🇺🇸 Trump says he wants Iran's leadership structure gone and has preferences for a 'good leader' — 06/03/2026 [USA]

  In a phone call with NBC News, the president also downplayed the possibility of a ground invasion in Iran.

  Related: #U.S.-Iran Relations
• 🇺🇸 Form 4 Farmland Partners Inc For: 5 March — 06/03/2026 [USA] Related: #Geopolitics, #Energy Markets, #Financial Markets
• 🇺🇸 Iowa governor believes in U.S. war with Iran despite 'sacrifice' by state soldiers who died — 05/03/2026 [USA]

  Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds on Thursday lamented the loss of four soldiers from her state since December, including two who died last weekend in a retaliatory drone strike in Kuwait during the early stages...

  Related: #Military Policy
• 🇺🇸 War with Iran | CBS News Special — 01/03/2026 [USA]

  Tony Dokoupil anchors special coverage of the large-scale military operation launched by the U.S. and Israel on Iran, killing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who ruled for nearly 40 years. Pres...

  Related: #Middle East Conflict, #Military Operations, #International Relations
• 🇺🇸 Iran's hard-line supreme leader is dead after major military strikes, Trump says — 01/03/2026 [USA]

  President Donald Trump announced that Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed on Saturday after the U.S. and Israel launched a predawn assault.

  Related: #International Relations, #Middle East Conflict, #Military Action, #Regional Instability
• 🇺🇸 Starmer under pressure after Greens win Gorton and Denton by-election — 27/02/2026 [USA]

  Labour comes in third place in new blow to prime minister

  Related: #Election Results, #Party Realignment