And smooth in texture spreads well on a cracker. Youd think its the finest pate france has to offer, but it was actually The Cats dinner would you be able to tell the difference . Well see if katty can later hello, im Katty Kay in washington, dc. Christian fraser is in london. For five years, Dominic Cummings was borisjohnson s right Hand Man the architect behind the victorious vote leave campaign, the PriMe Ministers most senior aide in Downing Street and a widely feared political assassin. But theres a problem with having such a ruthless operator as your chief aide. One day, they may bite the hand that fed them. And today was that day. In a marathon seven Hour Session before a parliaMentary committee, Mr Cummings who was forced out of number ten last year gave his Inside View on how the governMent had handled the covid pandemic. He painted a picture of policy failure, dithering and a governMent that had no useful plan. And he was withering in his assessMent of his forMer colleagues.
arguably a more suitable job for her, dealing with all the levelling up her, dealing with all the levelling up stuff which, if labour doesn t answer the charge of levelling up, it won t win back redwall seats. absolutely. i think what seems to be clear here is keir starmer seems to be wanting to make a bit of a splash. i think it comes at a time when borisjohnson appears to have been dropping in the opinion polls, i think it was in you guv last week about 64% of people felt he was doing badly this was clearly in relation to his pepa pig speech, which we all heard and widely discussed last week. and of course the torres lee scandal. so by coming in and throwing out some of these big names out there and putting them in prominent positions, like david lemi as foreign secretary, it makes sense with his great connexions abroad and his links to obama and the us. so i thinkjust by coming in and throwing those names and making people think about labour again, it s quite clear that
her uncle was salvador allende, the chilean democratic leader who was ousted in a coup by general pinochet in 1973, forcing isabel and herfamily to flee to neighbouring venezuela. her books have been translated into more than a0 languages, including her latest novel, violeta. how does she use her own life to inform her work, and how does she interpret political trends across latin america? isabel allende, in california, welcome to hardtalk. now, i can see your book there, your latest one, violeta, behind you, and it depicts an old woman, violeta, writing a letter to her grandson. now, your. camilo. your book came out at a time when we were all experiencing covid, and it s set in 1920 when the spanish flu has just arrived in latin america. 18 million people killed, of course, in that pandemic. so why did you want to write about the spanish flu? is it because of covid? i didn t! really, i didn t. i wanted to write about a woman who was born in the same year that my mother was b