Now on Bbc News political thinking with nick robinson. Hello, And welcome to political thinking a conversation with, rather than a newsy interrogation, of someone who shapes our political thinking about what a shape theirs. My guest this week has just celebrated ending the longest Train Drivers strike in history a strike that was blamed for crippling the railways And angered many, many travellers. His members haVe Got a 15 Pay Rise over three years. He is Mick Whelan, The General secretary of aslef. He said that his members strength, resilience, And determination was what had won that Pay Rise others say it was down to his crafty negotiation style. Mick whelan, welcome to political thinking. Thank you, nick. You finally got a deal after all that time how did you celebrate . Erm, by talking to the press. As soon as it becomes public knowledge, you And your colleagues obviously, so sky, bbc, the guardian, the usual outlets, And press will be Here Today With You And once you ve done that,
Nonstate actors but from old nationstate adversaries who have learned from the change right at the end of the Twentieth Century and to understand the only way to defeat us is by using irregular or indirect means of attack, the assassination of general soleimani fit into that theory . It did because of who he was, his in official title. Thank you for having me on this show. The shadow commander. He wasnt a Major General in the regular Army Commanding divisions in a normal battle where you face off in a theater of combat and everything is aboveboard, the battle of the bulge, this isnt the first gulf war. This is an individual who used proxy forces in Six Continents including the us and the recent attempt against the saudi ambassador to wage irregular warfare using means the weaker power developed against a far more powerful adversary, the United States is no longer a superpower. We are a hyperpower, nobody can come close to us in a conventional capacity. We have 12 Nuclear Aircraft carri
Will go back to the auditorium at the Cato Institute for the 2019 cato surveillance conference. Senior fellow, thank you both to those watching at home for joining us. As i mentioned at the start of the conference we focused on issues of surveillance oversight and this years conference or this morning you heard about an array of institutions and entities and persons who work to oversee the secret use of intelligence collection. This ranges from the pfizer court to the inspectors general to government, billy office to the Intelligence Committee of congress and one of the newer and in many ways most publicly useful entities overseen the Intelligence Committee is the piracy and Civil Liberties oversight board. Its a number of valuable reports that have given us unique insights into the programs weve heard discussed earlier such as section 702 and section 215 the authority used for the phone records collection program. Im sure it will be a fascinating discussion so i will pass it off to ou
Is why turks are invading syria to wipe out kurds, they dont care about isis, they just want all of the the kurds dead, many of moment have been helping u. S. For decade, those kurds claim white house is abandoning them. And will make middle east or dangerous. Many of president s hawkish republican allies say this is a bad idea, today, president said, this is not our fight, watch. They have been fighting each other for centuries for hundreds of years this has been going on. We were put into this battle, interjected to be a 30 day period, we have been there for many, many years, it was time to bring our soldiers home, i see, i tell you, hardest thing i have to do by far, much harder than witchhunt, is signing letter to parents of soldiers that have been killed. A lib tarrian, i agree. I dont want the u. S. To be worlds police force, i dont think our troops should be stationed all over the world in bases far and wide on fight wars and start wars that have in addition to do with this, but
I know, but this different, here is why turks are invading syria to wipe out kurds, they dont care about isis, they just want all of the the kurds dead, many of moment have been helping u. S. For decade, those kurds claim white house is abandoning them. And will make middle east or dangerous. Many of president s hawkish republican allies say this is a bad idea, today, president said, this is not our fight, watch. They have been fighting each other for centuries for hundreds of years this has been going on. We were put into this battle, interjected to be a 30 day period, we have been there for many, many years, it was time to bring our soldiers home, i see, i tell you, hardest thing i have to do by far, much harder than witchhunt, is signing letter to parents of soldiers that have been killed. A lib tarrian, i agree. I dont want the u. S. To be worlds police force, i dont think our troops should be stationed all over the world in bases far and wide on fight wars and start wars that have