Im alan little. My guest today is the former bishop of edinburgh, richard holloway. He entered a seminary at the age of 1a, intent on becoming a monk. He rose to become the leader of the Anglican Church in scotland. But he gradually lost faith in many of the certainties in christianity, including the existence of god. He finally resigned from the church, accusing it of cruelly persecuting gay people. So did his own loss of faith betray those he once preached to . Richard holloway, welcome to hardtalk. At the age of 1a, you left your Working Class Home in the West Of Scotland and went off to a very austere place in england called kelham hall, to train as an anglican priest. To train, in effect, as a monk. What was that like . It was lovely. I was a romantic wee boy who wandered the hills at loch lomond, where i grew up. The hills give you a sense of beyondness, of otherness, but that was also related to me and the kind of love for western movies, this Idea Of The Lonely Hero Riding on a
Monday in parliament. The main news from westminster after the 620 summit, the Prime Minister is confident about the uks position in the world but dismayed at americas position on climate change. I spoke personally to President Trump to encourage them to rejoin the Paris Agreement and i continue to hope that is exactly what he will do. Theresa may is reaching out to other parties on Big Policy Issues Labour says her government has run out of steam. If the Prime Minister would like it i am very happy to furnish her with a copy of our election manifesto, or better still an early election so that the people of this country can decide. Also on the programme the Falkland Islander who travelled 8,000 miles to raise concerns about brexit. We may well lose the support of the rest of europe and may well see spain and possibly other members of europe giving greater support to argentina over its mistaken and a legal claim to the falkland islands. When the leaders of the 620 countries the worlds l
He and his wife share this house in north london with six others they barely know. He gets up at 4 30am every morning to go to the first of his three cleaning jobs. Saturday i start at five oclock and finish at two oclock. Sunday i start at ten oclock and finish at 6am. So you work seven days a week . Seven days a week. Because the salary is a poor, poor salary. How much . £7. 50 an hour. I am on 900. £900 a month . Yes, 900. But i have to pay 500 for this room, the rent, and transport and food. The life is so, so hard. Sam wadicor is 26, he is a Mental Health support worker. Most of his wage goes on rent. He cycles around london because he can no longer afford the bus fares. I dont feel that i earn a fair wage for the work that i do. You are constantly told that having any sort of luxury in life is sort of bad and you need to knuckle down and work harder and it will all come to you. That is what i find most difficult about it. It is notjust not having enough money each month to mayb
Someone who bragged about i only hire the best people cant seem to keep people. Im looking forward to the president having the cabinet that he deserves. The Special Counsel is looking now into trump businesses. Its investigation 101 to follow the money. The president believes very strongly there is no collusion. There is no individual in the United States who is above the law. It was loud. It sounded like a bomb. When i looked closely, cars were squooshed. We want to do our best to find out exactly what happened here. This is new day with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. Welcome to your new day. Its thursday, march 16, 8 00 in the east. Cnn reporting that President Trump is ready to oust his National Security adviser general h. R. Mcmaster and is considering even more changes to his embattled cabinet. A Major Development in the russia investigation. Special counsel bob mueller has subpoenaed documents from the Trump Organization. The New York Times reporting that the mueller team has b
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