{"id":80993,"date":"2026-11-06T09:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T14:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/oxford-bethnal-green-and-the-guardian-the-british-sojourn-of-a-younger-abdul-el-sayed\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T09:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T14:55:10","slug":"oxford-bethnal-green-and-the-guardian-the-british-sojourn-of-a-younger-abdul-el-sayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/oxford-bethnal-green-and-the-guardian-the-british-sojourn-of-a-younger-abdul-el-sayed\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford, Bethnal Green and the Guardian: the British sojourn of a younger Abdul El-Sayed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a Guardian article in 2010, the Oxford Rhodes scholar said UK democracy had the \u2018upper hand\u2019 over the US<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/nov\/06\/us-midterm-elections-2026-democrats-blue-wave-congress-latest-news-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the tense final hours before his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/03\/abdul-el-sayed-mike-rogers-michigan-senate\">dramatic election as senator<\/a> for Michigan in this week\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-midterm-elections-2026\">midterms<\/a>, Abdul El-Sayed had a heated encounter with a British TV journalist that rapidly went viral.<\/p>\n<p>As James Matthews, of Sky News, tried to ask him a question, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SkyNews\/status\/2117766605572645068?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2117766605572645068%7Ctwgr%5E3ff381a0c14da198d5fdf42952555ae1b0a1f1d8%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdeadline.com%2F2026%2F11%2Fabdul-el-sayed-sky-news-denounced-as-pathetic-1237213044%2F\">El-Sayed bit back<\/a>. \u201cWhy would I care to have a conversation with you?\u201d he demanded of Matthews, placing both hands on the reporter\u2019s shoulders in a gesture of emphasis.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/06\/oxford-guardian-us-midterms-abdul-el-sayed\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a Guardian article in 2010, the Oxford Rhodes scholar said UK democracy had the \u2018upper hand\u2019 over the US US politics live \u2013 latest updates In the tense final hours before his dramatic election as senator for Michigan in this week\u2019s midterms, Abdul El-Sayed had a heated encounter with a British TV journalist that &#8230; <a title=\"Oxford, Bethnal Green and the Guardian: the British sojourn of a younger Abdul El-Sayed\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/oxford-bethnal-green-and-the-guardian-the-british-sojourn-of-a-younger-abdul-el-sayed\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Oxford, Bethnal Green and the Guardian: the British sojourn of a younger Abdul El-Sayed\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}