The judges considered 151 books, which were whittled down to 13 on the longlist, six on the shortlist, and tonight there will be just one book left, one winner. The six shortlisted authors are all here tonight they include two former winners of the prize sir Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood. And all of them are now waiting to find out if they have won, and if theyll be taking home the £50,000 cheque that goes with winning. To help guide us through the proceedings, im delighted to say were joined by the author and journalist Daisy Buchanan and nic bottomley, owner of mr bs book shop in bath, and president of the Booksellers Association which represents book shops in the uk and ireland. Thank you both for being here. Not long now, plenty to discuss. But before we chat, lets have a look at this years shortlist. You lionesses six of the best books of the year are competing for the booker prize. Margaret atwoods testa m e nts booker prize. Margaret atwoods testaments is the sequel to the
also claims he does not remember who sent it to him. it says, we have operational control, total leverage, moral high ground, potus must start a second term now. state assemblies can step in and vote before the electoral slate. republicans control 28 states, democrats 22 states, once again, trump wins. that s the road map the day after the election, ron, for how to keep donald trump unconstitutionally in office. okay, fast forward to january six, when they tried some of these things instead of a donald trump jr. is texting a different tune. here it is. we need an oval address. he has to leave now, it s gone too far, it s gotten out of hand. i mean, what did they think their shenanigans would lead to? it led to chaos and violence. yeah, there is a dangling threat in the first series of text or emails that i cannot imagine the special counsel will be interested in investigating because as you know, donald trump jr. is really the first one to suggest, this in the report, sug
Is like an awkward date you wait for them to show up at the restaurant, after ten years you decide they are probably not coming. The obr has assumed at each of the last 16 fiscal events that productivity growth would return to its pre crisis trend of about 2 a year, but it has remained stubbornly flat. So today they revise down the outlook for productivity growth, business investment, and gdp growth across the forecast period. That line was more important than Everything Else in the speech combined. But a Second Striking feature of this budget concerns public spending and austerity. After the last six elections, weve had big tax rises to pay for extra public spending. Not this time. An historic shift. And yet, we still have spending cuts baked in to our plans, sizeable spending cuts. Heres the graph. Per capita spending on Government Services from 2015 to 2022. So is this really do able . Today the chancellor bunged some billions into the Public Sector to ease the pain in the next coup
President trump, quote, he is no order con man. He is way above average in the american political system is his easiest mark ever. Guest yeah. This was that was early the campaign. I think that was in march of 2016. So it was just around the time when he was sewing up the republican nomination and the purpose of that article is this is a come. Com compilation of articles to explain the trump phenomenon for people who were having to take it serious come to grip watches the fact this was happening. So i took kind of a different approach to trump and tried to really listen to what his supporters were saying and try to focus on what he was doing, and my take on him is that he was a Brilliant Media manipulator and that he was perfectly suited to play on all the weaknesses of the american political media, ask that turned out to be truism was i had stucks to my guns on the piece. Thought he would be president and then later on i didnt believe that. Host well, the dave after the election you w
Britain is a great, Global Trading nation and that we are open for business. It marks the start of a new and ebay trading relationship with turkey and will potentially secure british and turkish jobs and prosperity for decades to come. That is breaking news coming following that between edible and erdogan, and theresa may, a agreement signed for the programme known as tfx, worth £100 million for britain. Now on bbc news, inside out. Hello. You wouldnt drive drunk but would you drive tired . Shes got Glazed Features, really long blinks. You can see the muscle tone in her face has started to slacken. Saving our lives, but risking their own. The Junior Doctors driving home tired after night shifts. Really i think its just almost too easy to kind of think that it wont happen to you. We set off to find her and we could see the accident on the other side of the road. Also, stripped and shipped. The unlikely British Classic Being stolen to order and smuggled abroad. And we hotfoot it to the