We’re turning our gaze Stateside this week where the mid-term Congressional elections promised a red wave and delivered, well, something more like a ripple. It was a pretty bad night for Donald Trump, a pretty good one for Joe Biden and a fascinating tee-up for the presidential race in a couple of years’ time.
To chew over the results we welcomed former CapX editor Oliver Wiseman back to the podcast. Since 2019 Oliver has been living and working in Washington DC, where he is now an editor at Spectator World and write the DC Diary, which is a must-read for fans of US politics.
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