holywell in flintshire. we see why it hurts, and what traders can do about it. they all say that they are for the businesses and that and yet they re not helping us at all. they re making it harder for us to get to them. because if we run out of change or need to do a bank for cash and that, you can tjust nip to the bank any more. you ve got to physically go to a town somewhere else. hello, happy new year. hopefully. but who will it be a happy new year for? that s where we start tonight as we take advantage of the fact that 2018 is still in its warm up phase to look at politics here, and how it might evolve. as always, the big battle is the one between the conservatives and labour and rarely has the choice between them been as stark. so how a minority conservative government gets on, and whether labour can threaten it is an obvious issue for the year ahead. but in some ways, a lot of the action in politics these days is within the two main parties. they both have huge great c
this how does donald trump react to this it s a no the insinuation that somehow the russians helped him in his election victory how does it we spawn does he say nothing can he do anything to come out of this still with some credibility. well i think i think he needs to say show me the proof what have you got that shows that there was something that changed the outcome of the election but nobody seems to be suggesting i want either side the outcome of the election was changed if the outcome of the election was not changed who cares what is the significance of it it s simply irrelevant and so i think i think that is the first thing. but i would demand if i were the president i would say show me precisely what you re talking about don t just give me intelligence assessments i want to know when the facts are that led to those intelligence assessments because we seen intelligence assessments that have taken this nation off to war for example in iraq it turned out to be absolutely
society is more important than government. he wrote a great number of books. he taught at university of chicago for a while. he ended up in his hometown, not his hometown, dutch in germany, freiburg, which means free city which is perfect. he wasn t a conservative. he was a liberal, a libertarian. host: in your most recent book, bourgeois equality: how ideas, not capital or institutions, enrichd the world you talk about them as young hayek, middle-aged hike and old high-tech. did he change his opinion? guest: not too much. here s what happened. he was an economist economist. one of the leading economists in the world in the 1930s and 40s. he was commonly thought by everyone as john maynard keynes equal. but later in the 50s and 60s and 70s, he turned to philosophy, to political philosophy. i think that s the big change. it s not that he changed his opinions about what we unfortunately call capitalism. he thought it was a good thing. he thought that socialism is hard to
[applause] we should say that because the real event is about to come up here. it s my distinct pleasure to introduce you to our next speaker, admiral james stavridis is a retired navy admiral who s calling the dean of the fletcher school of law and diplomacy at tufts university. he has commanded at all levels of the military to include commander, european command and the supreme allied commander europe. i can provide you with a long list of his military assignments but you have probably already looked him up on the internet. so instead i will share some nuggets that provide a better understanding of how his career places him at the book festival today. he is no stranger to books. he started his love of books while his son was stationed in greece in the early 60s. because there was no armed forces network television, he spend his time at the post library. i can totally relate to this. my family was in france at the same time and my whole family, all seven kids, or over at t
i could provide you a long list of his military assignments but you have probably already looked him up on the internet so i will share nuggets that provide a better understanding how his career places him at the book festival today. he is no stranger to books. he started his love of books when his family was stationed in greece in the early 16s. because there was no armed forces network television he spent his time at the post library. i can totally relate to this. my family was in france at the same time and my whole family, all seven kids were at the library too. what is striking to booklovers is throughout his naval career, published either articles or books to include midshipmen. i suggest he would tell you his favorite assignment was command of destroyer uss barry from 1993 to 1995. his first literary book, destroyer captain, was about his time as commander of the uss barry. it came as a result of his daily journaling using a typewriter of all things during his 21/2 yea