[ applause ] and mr. Clegg the first question comes from darren metcalfe, please. Darren metcalfe. Nick. Hi, darren. How are you . Your promise on Student Loans has destroyed your reputation. Why would we ever believe anything else you say . [ applause ] nice easy way to start. Look, firstly, i got it wrong. I said sorry. Musically, no less. When you make a mistake in politics just as in life in politics just as in life sometimes you cant do exactly what you want. I was absolutely between a rock and a hard place five years ago on that particular policy. Secondly, i hope you can at least give me credit for the many, many other things that i have actually put into practice, whether its taking lots of people on low pay out of paying any income tax. The biggest expansion of apprenticeships this countrys ever seen. The biggest reform of our Pension System in a generation. More money into schools to help with the education of disadvantaged children. More childcare. Shared parental leave. Hea
Heart, or are we going to follow our basic instinct. It. [applause] nothing deal. I told them do not worry about being too abusive. [laughter] sometimes i am very modest about the introduction. Dont go overboard but just something simple like not since mark twain. [laughter] i am not here to boast but the only fault with the introduction he did not mention was the first novel ever written. I regret to say there has not been a bandwagon of people trying to right novels since then. I thought i would talk since dogfight is a result of what we call deadline poetry. Talk about deadline poet poet, some years ago with an Authors Guild benefit there is a program organized in which 45 authors rejected famous works of literature. [laughter] garrison himself rejected on walden pond he said there was a lot of good axioms but the structure was weak and suggested making it into a calendar. [laughter] i rejected the wasteland by t. S. Eliot. [laughter] it was with iambic pentameter and i know it was
Mama. The accumulation of personal information on vast numbers of americans which was brilliantly exploited by the obama team to get out their vote and is going to be exploited by virtually every merchandiser in america. Obamas Campaign Manager and the rest of the team for the ground game they pulled together which the romney team laughed at first. They are not laughing now. Mark. Thank you. Magnificent. Is this it . Lets see what conac has given us. The biggest winner of 2012 vladimir putin. He overcame massive opposition protests, maneuvered through constitutional loopholes, served as president , then prime minister. And then when reelected as president again of planet earths biggest nation, russia. Vladimir putin biggest winner of 2012. Biggest loser, pat . General david petraeus. Cia most famous general of his generation caught in a honey trap and kwon. The Nra National Rifle Association which has no answer to why americans should be allowed to buy and possess assault weapons with
We got quite a lot of details from the president of the European Council and the commission and of course press conferences from francois and angela merkle. What is likely to happen over the next few months is that france and germany will try to negotiate a new framework for cooperation on intelligence with the United States. There was that sponing press conferences overnight. Angela merkle of course believes her own phone was monitored by the americans and her view the relationship with america has to change radically and she wants to see deep changes and assurances there will be a fresh relationship and in short she wants to make sure america sticks to the promise she had from president obama not to monitor her phone calls, this is reading between the loins but not that far between the lines, frankly that she doesnt want the United States to indulge in espionage because theres an expliss it threat from her and implicit threat that intelligence gathering next to terrorism is dent on t
There is an alternative. The only successful social movement out there in the middle east at this moment that have been renegotiating the social contract and attracting young people what the future should be look like has been islamists. Nobody hack working on the grassroots to organize young people for democratic culture and values. At the same time, detaching those values and that culture from western Foreign Policy decisions because they are not one in the same thing of course france disagrees with america, disagrees with britain in their Foreign Policy, also subscribe to Democratic Values so were trying to distinguish values from Foreign Policy and advocate far buy in to the values themselves. Rose what is it that attracted you in the first place to this kind of early life in islamist politics . I was born and raised in the u. K. In a place called essex and i experienced severe and violent racism. Things like hammer attacks, machete attacks, false arrests by the police. My 16yearol