Political consultant David Axelrod said Tuesday that Xavier Becerra is a “pillar of the Democratic establishment” and is on the rise in the California gubernatorial race. Speaking on CNN before the network hosted a debate between the top seven contenders in the race, Axelrod said Becerra “was the absolute beneficiary” of former Rep. Eric Swalwell… Source link
The rubble of a police station, in Tehran, Iran, on March 4, 2026. AFP A brief dogfight played out in the skies over Tehran on the morning of Wednesday, March 4. An Israeli F-35 fighter jet, flying as part of a bombing run on the Iranian capital, climbed above the clouds, veering away from an enemy Yak-130 fighter, which had drawn close enough for the pilot to see. The Iranian aircraft was then quickly shot down. Where had it taken off from? Israel bombed the runways at the military airports in Tabriz, Shiraz and Kish Island on the first day of the war, Saturday, February 28, rendering them unusable and also destroying both aircraft and radar installations. By Sunday, March 1, at 9:15 am, the Israeli military considered their air route to the capital city clear. On Wednesday, it claimed to have full control of the airspace over Tehran. While the American air forces concentrate their firepower on Iran’s western provinces and its missile launchers, Israel has struck a wide range of sites across the …
Public administration has never been the glitziest or most immediately attractive discipline to study. With this in mind, the government’s announcement that it intends to establish a new National School of Government and Public Services (NSGPS) – in-house training for civil servants – is easily overlooked as little more than administrative tinkering in a world beset by uncertainty and turbulence. And yet to see this announcement as little more than peripheral politics would be wrong: it matters. Since the previous National School of Government was abolished in 2012 (and the Civil Service College abolished in 1995), the UK has struggled to ensure that its public service professional development and support structures are fit for the future. This is necessary if the UK is to build an inclusive economy, deliver its industrial strategy, deal with its “productivity puzzle”, and manage those issues that now sit within the UK’s National Risk Register (such as the threat from extreme weather events). More generally, if it is to escape the dominant “broken Britain” doom-loop narrative, then it needs to …
