I really do believe that. I think the British Empire explains so much about peoples daily lives Around The World, tea drinking in india, in britain, patterns of tax avoidance, even the Bbc World Service used to be known as the bbc empire service. It explains so much about our daily news. Youve just come back from guyana theres a Border Dispute there that goes back to empire, israel palestine, a dispute that has its roots in empire, but also, theres a gap between the way in which britain sees itself and the world sees britain through the prism of this history, and i think we need to remember what we did before we go around pontificating on things like democracy and the environment and human rights. We need to remember our distinctly patchy records on those things during the age of empire. But do you think your perspective is driven in part by your own background 7 youre of indian heritage, born and raised in the united kingdom, so britain and india matter particularly to you, you know t
as the china party conference begins, the united states says president xi is leading the country in a more aggressive direction. and one of the literary world s biggest prizes, the booker, is won by sri lanka s shahaan karunartilaka, about his country s civil war. i country s civil war. was writing a murder mystery and i was writing a murder mystery and itjust seemed every sri lankan atrocity, we never deal with it, we kind ofjust move on. the british prime minister, liz truss, has said she is sorry and accepts responsibility for mistakes in her economic plan. the majority of measures in her so called mini budget have been reversed by her new chancellor, jeremy hunt. in an interview with our political editor, chris mason, she said the plans had gone too far and too fast , but insisted she would lead the conservatives into the next election. inside ten downing street tonight, today s prime minister in the corridors, those of yesterday on the wall. prime minister, who is to
mystery and it just seemed that every sri lankan atrocity, we never deal with it, we kind ofjust move on. the british prime minister liz truss has apologised for mistakes in the government s financial strategy a strategy that she set in motion. the majority of measures in her so called mini budget have been reversed by her new finance ministerjeremy hunt. he was in parliament to explain why the economic policy was being scrapped. the prime minister herself was keeping a low profile. in a moment, we ll hearfrom her. first, our political editor chris mason has the story of how the day unfolded. first thing this morning, it felt like a government on the run. sorry about the rain, guys. the new chancellor was even apologising for the weather. jeremy hunt was jogging before dawn thought of breaking. any more u turns? the answer was yes. news was already breaking. mr hunt was performing the last rites on almost all of liz truss s plans her programme for government dead. living