christopher nolan s oppenheimer in london last night as the strike was declared. the studios say they have made meaningful offers but that s been rejected by those on strike. the guild s president, fran drescher, said the decision by actors to walk out was a moment of truth . we are being victimised by a very greedy entity. i am shocked by the way the people that we have been in business with are treating us. i cannot believe it, quite frankly. how far apart we are on so many things. how they plead poverty, that they are losing money left and right while giving hundreds of millions of dollars to their ceos. it is disgusting. shame on them. they stand on the wrong side of history at this very moment. the issues in the strike go much deeper thanjust the film industry itself. the screen actors guild wants streaming giants to agree a fairer split of profits and better working conditions. but other demands like protecting actors from being replaced by digital replicas reflect
prepandemic occupants on-site at some point during the week. online job postings also reflect differences in remote work between large and small cities. in san francisco, 26% of postings permit remote work. in birmingham, alabama, that number is just 10.4%. there s debate of what drives the difference. is it work habits? commutes? in a moment, i m going to ask scott calloway what he thinks. a second story caught my eye the same day. it had to do with friendship and economic mobility and so much more. raj chedy and colleagues released a study, the social met works of 2.2 million users between 25 and 54. the searchers didn t have names or identities, but they were able to use zip codes to estimate income, college, and other characteristics. the conclusion that drove the headlines was theis. for the poor, the best ticket out of poverty is having wealthy friends. it s called economic connectedness. the more connections between the rich and the poor, the better the neighborhood wa
good evening. after weeks of speculation we understand tonight that the prime minister is going to scrap the plans to build the h52 high speed rail line between birmingham and manchester. he is expected to make the announcement in manchester at the conservative party conference tomorrow. our political editor chris mason is there for us now. for the last couple of days, the government machine has felt quite low key, even underpowered, from the prime minister down, when it has come to the announcements they have had to make but tonight, that looks like it is about to change, not least with the confirmation is widely expected over the last couple of days, of the scrapping of the h52 rail line between the west midlands and manchester. my understanding is the mayor of the west midlands, a conservative, we included his views on our reporting of this last night, saw the prime minister this afternoon and tonight is distraught. expect rishi sunak when he sets out his announcement to
about the formation of the planets. now on bbc news political thinking with nick robinson. hello. what makes someone want to be a political leader? what persuades them to give so much of their time up, time that they could be spending with family and friends? and above all, what makes them carry on even after they ve been rejected by the electorate? questions for my guest this week on political thinking, a conversation with rather than a newsy interrogation of someone who shaped our political thinking about what has shaped theirs. ed davey could be a full time carer. his teenage son is severely disabled, unable to walk and barely able to talk. sir ed is the last of the lib dem ministers who served in david cameron s tory led coalition. a few years ago, the electorate kicked him out of the house of commons, perhaps in protest. now, though, he is back as an mp and as leader of his party and he s seeking to persuade voters at the next election that he can kick out the very peo