Its awkward . And can we put the long term interests of our country before the short term political needs of the moment . Even if it means being controversial . Controversial . Well, that was just a couple of hours ago, but already the move has ignited quite a significant backlash. More than 250 charities and businesses have been urging the government not to weaken green targets. Shadow paymaster general Jonathan Ashworth says the Prime Ministers decision puts pressure now on households. Pressure now on households. It reveals rishi sunak is very weak. Hes being pushed around by liz truss and hes causing chaos. This is a set of announcements which is undermining Business Investment in this in this country is undermining the stability of our economy and its actually going to cost consumers more well away from net zero. The governments plan to deal with inflation is working. With inflation is working. According to the chancellor, the rate of inflation fell to 6. 7 in august. Thats down fr
Foes of our farmers will debate all of that and more, but that will follow the news with polly middlehurst. At middlehurst. At nigel, thank you and good evening to you. Well, the top story tonight is that the Prime Minister has set out this afternoon revised plans to his net zero in a controversial overhaul of the governments green policy. Among the measures green policy. Among the measures was a weakening of the phasing out of gas boilers , as well as out of gas boilers, as well as easing the transition to electric vehicles by pushing back a ban on new petrol and diesel cars until 2035. Rishi sunak said he wants a more realistic approach to net zero, which eases the burden on the british people. British people. Our destiny can be our own choosing , but only if we change choosing, but only if we change the way our politics works. Can the way our politics works. Can we be brave in the decisions we make, even if there is a political cost. Can we be honest when the facts change, even if i
Actually, ive written a lot about race and media and also have, i interviewed taraji p. Henson for the smithsonian, so weve got a little bit many common here. [applause] so our esteemed guest, the daughter of a nasa scientist and english professor . Yes. Virginia native. You worked in Investment Banking . That was my first job. Wow. Out of high school. And also had a magazine for expats in mexico. Inside mexico . Yeah. Started working on Hidden Figures in 2010. Wow. And became a New York Times number one best seller, spawned a movie that was oscarnominated. Margot lee shetterly, everyone. [cheers and applause] so i heard that you gave an amazing speech last night where you talked a little bit about charlottesville and race. Could you give us just a little taste of what you talked about there and how it compares to what you talk about in the book. Yeah. You know, the thing that we talked a little bit about what i started out doing, which was working in Investment Banking out of school.
Project that youre work on. This is something you have continued past the life of the book. Could you talk a little bit about what youre doing there and how its succeeded since the book and the movie have come out . So. Yeah so, yeah, the human computer project. Essentially, what i was so surprised to discover doing the research for Hidden Figures is how many women were involved in computing, as i talked about before. Not just at nasa, but at all of these other organizations. And so this is really a way to try and catalog all of the women who were involved in doing this work in the early days of computing and really understand, you know, what kind of work they were doing and also to get a snapshot of women in these fields and see if theres something that we might learn from those early pioneers that we can apply to women working in these fields today. So if people want to participate, they can find it onlinesome. Yep. The humancomputerproject. Com, or you can reach out to me at margo l
[inaudible conversations] may i have your attention, please. Please take your seats, the presentations about to begin. Before we get started, id like you to be aware there will be, most likely, a question and answer period at the end of the presentation. When its time, youll be able to go to one of the two microphones on either side of the stage. Id like to introduce a tv critic for npr. [applause] how you doing . Thanks so much for joining us here. We really appreciate it. As was said, my names eric, and im tv critic for National Public radio so, of course, i should be talking to an author. [laughter] actually, ive written a lot about race and media and also have, i interviewed taraji p. Henson for the smithsonian, so weve got a little bit many common here. [applause] so our esteemed guest, the daughter of a nasa scientist and english professor . Yes. Virginia native. You worked in Investment Banking . That was my first job. Wow. Out of high school. And also had a magazine for expats