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one of the definitive songs of the early 19905 manchester. music: the only one i know by the charlatans # the only one i know # has come to take me away let s talk to tim burgess of the charlatans. congratulations to you, tim burgess. tell our audience what you have been honoured for. i tell our audience what you have been honoured for- honoured for. i have been honoured for the highest honoured for. i have been honoured for the highest achievement, - honoured for. i have been honoured for the highest achievement, i - for the highest achievement, i think. it is called the headliner award and this is it. it looks pretty good. it is a beautiful thing. pretty good. it is a beautiful thin. . . pretty good. it is a beautiful thin. . , , ., thing. and this is for your contribution, thing. and this is for your contribution, i thing. and this is for your contribution, i think, - thing. and this is for your contribution, i think, turn thing. and this is for your - contri ....
i felt i wanted to draw this abuse of power, as you put it. is that something that s been ticking away in your mind over time? well, i guess it has. and it sort of came to the fore when i had an opportunity after i d left downing street. of course, you get more time to think and reflect on my time in government. and it was in doing that that i recognised that the various issues i dealt with, like hillsborough, like primodos, child sexual abuse, other things as well. there was this sort of underlying theme throughout which was of people in power failing to use that power in the interests of the people they were actually there to serve. well, we re going to talk about one or two of those, not every one in the chapter, though. it isn t a memoir. it begins with who you are. it begins, if you like, with the values that maybe underpin this theme of the book, the values of the vicar s daughter, isn t it? really. yes. and there s perhaps no surprise there, because i am a vicar ....
in the interests of the powerless, but rather to serve themselves or to protect the institution to which they belong. that is the verdict of my guest on political thinking this week. the former prime minister, theresa may. it is a quote from her new book, which is not a blow by blow account of three turbulent years in downing street. it is instead an argument, an argument that too often in britain we see, in the words of the title, the abuse of power. theresa may. welcome to political thinking. thank you forjoining us. very good to join you. were you not tempted at all to write a book full ofjuicy indiscretions, attacks on your enemies and self justification? no, not really, actually, i have to say. i mean, the trouble is, i m not that great a fan of political memoirs. and i think often. well, i ll either be one of two things, won t they? they will be full of juicy, juicy bits and pieces, or they ll be just very straight and often quite bland in a sense. but i wanted to ....
knowing what we did, but with hindsight, that is the moment we should have done it, three weeks earlier, and it would have saved many, many lives. alistair darling, the labour politician who was chancellor during the 2008 global financial crash, dies at the age of 70. members of the rmt union except a pay deal ending their involvement in a long running series of rail strikes. hello, i m matthew amroliwala. hello, i m lewis vaughanjones. welcome to the programme. the pogues frontman shane macgowan has died at the age of 65. he was discharge from hospital last week. his wife confirmed he had died in social media. macgowan fronted the pogues from 1982 until their break up in 2014. the band are best known for the christmas hit song fairytale of new york. our arts correspondent david sillito reports. # it was christmas eve, babe # in the drunk tank # an old man said to me. # happy christmas, your ours, i pray god it s our last. fairytale of new york, a bleak, drink sodden ....
perhaps into scotland. but here is where we are starting to see the cold air. 3 7 in northern scotland and central areas, further south of the front, we stilljust hang on to double digits. it is not going to last, the front sinks steadily south. not that much in the way of rain on it as it does say but it will open the back door for those temperatures to fall away and that cold, arctic air to be really quite a dominant feature. on friday, quite a dominant feature. on friday, quite a quiet start. there will be some sunshine around. wendy with gail s unexposed north and east coast. sunny spells but a notable noticeable difference on friday, feeling quite cold. as we going to saturday, the wind will fall lighter so we could see our first widespread frost for the start of the weekend. lots of sunshine on saturday but the potential for some lots of sunshine on saturday but the potentialfor some rain lots of sunshine on saturday but the potential for some rain on sunday. a ....