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Blair institute for global change working with over a0 countries, the former prime minister is still searching for answers to the great challenges of our time. Labour s back in power after 14 years. Very, very few people know what it feels like to actually be the prime minister of a new government, to be a country s leader. What does. . . What did it feel like as you walked through that door and into power in 1997? well, for me, the feelings were less those of elation. I mean, everyone around me was. . . . . Was, you know, celebrating, but i was very conscious of the fact, first of all, i d never been a minister, let alone a prime minister, and secondly, there is an awesome sense of responsibility. So you realise you re going to be taking decisions, you know you re on the start of a journey, you know the journey is going to be really difficult, you know there s going to be a whole lot of events and circumstances you can t predict. And you re acutely conscious of the fact that there is ....
A few weeks ago, veteran BBC journalist John Simpson criticised me for writing in this newspaper about the BBC’s anti-Israel bias. “I like and admire Danny Cohen,” Mr Simpson wrote on X/Twitter, “but he should realise that his attacks on his ex-colleagues are being used by people who want to destroy the BBC for political reasons.” ....
Guyana President Mohamed Irfaan Ali didn’t hesitate to shut down BBC journalist Stephen Sackur when he attempted to bait the head of state into climate change apologetics. “Over the next decade, two decades, it is expected that there will be $150 billion worth of oil and gas extracted off your c. ....