Raised their sentences on nine to 15 years. Now bbc news, a discussion on the challenges of avoiding short term in modern society and how to prioritise the well being of future generations hosted by the author and journalist, linda geddes. Hello, and welcome to bbc futures long termism how to think in deep time bbc future at hay festival well we are taking a longer view from the 21st century and encourage more long term thinking and also encourage some of our politicians and policymakers to do the same. With me today we have some excellent panellists. Roman kaczmarek, a public philosopher and author who is writing a book about long term inking and the challenges facing democracy. Sophie howell, the future generations commissioner for wales was trying to encourage our politicians and policymakers to try and take that view of the impact of their decisions for future generations and all their descendants and martin rees, one of the uks most eminent scientists, a member of the house of lor
A managing partner and investments and we crossed to Geoffrey Carr he is the author of inside cyber warfare mapping the cyber underworld and founder of 30 up a video streaming platform crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate let me go to bill in london bill is it time to break up Companies Like google and facebook and we can talk about what should be done if they are maybe they should become Public Utilities go ahead bill in london theres been very left little appetite in the polls for breaking up these come these companies indeed theres been very little left to tell if a challenging them in any way because the enormously lucrative in terms of the lobbying that they do and all of this leigh they have a very strong position in the market i think what weve seen very recently with some of the scandals around privacy that these companies are now vulnerable and possibly their future is in play ok the same question to you because we do have 8
The 11th to perish on the mountain this season, after reports of overcrowding the hit series gavin and stacey will return to our screens for a Christmas Special later this year, almost a decade after it last aired. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Im shaun ley. One of the conservative leadership contenders has warned that a no deal brexit would cause what he called political suicide for his party. The foreign secretary, jeremy hunt, said any such move would trigger a general election, risking the extinction of the tories. One of his rivals, the environment secretary michael gove, has pledged to allow eu nationals who were in the uk at the time of the referendum to apply for citizenship free of charge. The housing minister, Kit Malthouse, has become the tenth mp to join the race to succeed theresa may. He says the Leadership Campaign cannot be about the same old faces. Lets get more on this from norman smith, our assistant political editor. Hello. This one is shaping up nicel
Lifetime. Prime minister rishi sunak in the last few minutes has been speaking for the First Time Since returning from his summer holiday. Heres what he had to say. Say. Yeah, were planning for winter in the nhs earlier than weve ever done before. Thats why today im announcing £250 million to invest in more a e capacity in 30 different sites across the country. Earlier this across the country. Earlier this yeanl across the country. Earlier this year, i announced our urgent and Emergency Care recovery plan. Emergency care recovery plan. Thats about more beds, more ambulances, faster discharge , ambulances, faster discharge, all of which improves patient care. And although weve still got work to do, were starting to see the results of that ambulance response times have come down considerably. A e performance is improving and today another step on that today is another step on that journey to a better performing nhs, delivering better care for people particularly this people, particularl