Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the United States for Tom Swarbrick's Friday drivetime programme on the UK's LBC. Listen live at 5:50 every Friday, or find it here on demand afterwards. And also at LBC's Official YouTube page, where you can watch in full HD.

This week: Trump finally gets around to campaigning in the midterm elections, and Tennessee butchers a death row inmate who survives her date with the death chamber.

Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the United States for LBC's Friday drivetime programme with Tom Swarbrick. Listen live every Friday at 5.50pm, or find it here on-demand afterwards.

This week:
-- Trump is urged to invoke the Insurrection Act if the Democrats win the midterms
-- Hegseth orders a public, firing squad military execution
-- South African jurist Navi Pillay wins the Nobel Peace Prize, infuriating the White House

Simon's weekly chronicle of increasingly unstable events in the United States for Tom Swarbrick's Friday drivetime programme on the UK's LBC.

This week:
-- Trump threatens war crimes in his UN General Assembly speech;
-- Republicans fear a midterm drubbing in 38 days' time;
-- President Xi Jinping trapises to Washington, and Trump shows him all his White House renovations.