he is a fighter. i don t think he ll give up easily. i guess our audience will be very interested in how powerful is the times if you wanted do, could you bring boris johnson down? only through a story that was shocking and that people thought was absolutely unacceptable. you couldn t do it any other way. if we were campaigning that he should go, i don t think that would make any difference, for example. it s the actual stories that change public opinion and the tory party s views. could it also be more subtle than that? if you decided for example, if you backed rishi sunak tomorrow and you did it subtly, so you just started writing articles that painted him in a positive light. do you think that that would swing it? no. and would you do that? no, not at this stage. there could be a stage where you might switch allegiance? yeah, maybe. what would it take? i don t know, we have to see. do you plan to do it anytime soon.
attitude towards news. one thing i ve seen over the years is that you read the media, newspapers in particular and they portray a very negative image of what s going on in the world. so people, i think there is one of the reasons is less trust because people look at their own lives and see generally things are getting better, and i mean a generalisation, things are getting better but that s not what they see in the media where everything looks like it s going to hell in a hand cart. i think it s important that the times starts doing more constructive news. journalists will often have a story that s 80% positive in 20% negative. and the kneejerk reaction ofjournalist, probably including me at one stage, is you go to the negative because it gives you a better headline. but in fact, the story is generally positive. we want to turn that around and make news reflect the world more accurately because the world is getting better. people are living longer,
love to have broken. i think the ft, cameron and greensill, that was a good story. it s interesting because pa rtygate, very few journalists, lots of parties going on and very few journalists knew about it. you had it on your lap in a sense because on saturday, 20th 2020 the times published the story of the political editor, the policy editor said borisjohnson celebrated his 56th birthday yesterday with a small gathering in the cabinet room, rishi sunak and a group of aides sang him happy birthday before they tucked into a unionjack cake. so back then you had what then became a huge story, how could you print it without realising it was incendiary? well spotted! we missed it. what do you think about that now? it s embarrassing. had you heard about parties at downing street before the mirror and itv published scoops? no, not from that when you mention. in that sense, you ve heard of it but not recognised it as a party. i don t we put together, at that time that it was clashing at that t
but the authorities then with south africa, they govern southwest africa, now namibia. so i couldn t go up and teach there so i set up a library in the capital. while i was there one of the people i was working with got expelled by the south africans. and he was a stringer for the bbc world service and bbc africa service. hejust handed it to me. i knew nothing about journalism. the only thing i knew was what my father told me, dog bites man is not a story, man bites dog is a story. i had to learn very fast doing broadcasts, i think i was terrible, they were really nice at the world service and they encouraged me and so i did a series of interviews and told them what was going on in southwest africa, which was a really interesting time. because as i say, it was apartheid on steroids. it had a large africana and german population who were very hard line. it was a very difficult time and the people i was working with, three of them got expelled, two of them were put
i was meant to go up to the border in angola but the authorities then with south africa, they govern southwest africa, it s now namibia. so i couldn t go up and teach there so i set up a library in the capital. while i was there one of the people i was working with got expelled by the south africans. and he was a stringer for the bbc world service and bbc africa service. hejust handed it to me. i knew nothing aboutjournalism. the only thing i knew was what my father told me, dog bites man is not a story, man bites dogs is a story. i had to learn very fast doing broadcasts i think i was terrible, they were really nice at the world service and they encouraged me and so i did a series of interviews and told them what was going on in southwest africa, which was a really interesting time. because as i say, it was apartheid on steroids. it had a large africana and german