commentators and correspondents who write, blog, podcast and broadcast to audiences back home from the dateline london. this week, britain s elusive prime minister turned up. in ukraine, as the country marks the six months since the war there began. we now know in the uk how much energy bills will rise in the uk, in october, but not what the new prime minister will do when they take over from boris johnson. where is power going in the uk? where is it going in the united states and, in australia, how come much of it ended up in just the hands of one man and even his friends aren t happy about it? to discuss all of that in the studio, we have latika bourke, correspondent for the australian newspapers, and the sydney morning herald, polly toynbee, a writer who has been writing a weekly column for the guardian since 1987, aand michael goldfarb a renowned foreign correspondent for public radio in the united states. his podcast is called the first draft. the first draft of history.
you are used to politicians sort of riding roughshod over political. donald trump set the template. i think what is interesting is that it does seem that in the anglosphere, not in canada, but in the anglosphere in general, we have come to this remarkable confluence where hard right wing goverments have a shred of normal customs. it was a written constitution and a flawed document but one that can be amended by men and women of goodwill, but there is no goodwill any more. we have seen what donald trump did in the period of his presidency, we saw what britain, as donald trump called borisjohnson, and now the story