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but first, let s turn to the big question today, the covid question. is it fundamentally shifting the basis for everyone s political choices at the moment? jeffrey kofman, i am going to start with you on that, if i may. do you think that the way people are thinking about who to vote for now is simply not about which personality they like, whose grand vision they like, but who they think is going to get the immediatejob done? i don t think you can separate these questions. i think clearly for five years we have talked about on this programme when trump would hit that tipping point when the american people would stop believing or accepting what he says, when that teflon presidency would be seen for what it is and i think. inaudible it s taken a pandemic, it s taken covid to expose that. we ve seen the numbers grow, the deaths grow. trump insisting even this week the us is turning a corner when there is simply no evidence of that, in fact every indication is that things ar ....
the headlines. a senior government minister warns the second national lockdown in england could last more than a month, amid fears that the rise in coronavirus cases could overwhelm hospitals. from thursday nonessential shops, restaurants, pubs, gyms and hair and beauty salons will be forced to close. the uk opposition leader has welcomed the new measures, but is calling on the government to use the time to ramp up test and trace. typhoon goni, has made landfall in the philippines with sustained winds of 225 kilometres an hour. the most powerful storm this year has caused the evacuation of over 200,000 people. a major search and rescue effort is now into its third day in the turkish coastal town of izmir following a major earthquake that hit the agean on friday, killing at least 50 people. the us presidential candidates are making a final weekend dash around swing states. donald trump has been in pennsylvania and joe biden in michigan both states that could be k ....
no one bbc news, now on bbc news, dateline london. hello, and welcome to the programme that brings together some of the uk s leading commentators and foreign correspondents whose stories are published back home dateline london. this week, is coronavirus extinguishing not only lives and jobs but also our appetite for polarised populist politics? within days, if the polls are right, we could see the end of the extraordinary trump era. here in the uk, borisjohnson‘s conservative party is five points behind in one poll and jeremy corbyn, labour s former leader has been suspended from the party. amidst a crisis, do we crave the conventional politics and duller virtues of competence and compassion rather than the swagger and promise of the populist? after the 2008 financial crisis, angela merkel in germany survived whilst other incumbent governments fell. is that a template for how politics will settle after covid 19? joining me this week ned temko from christian scien ....
hello, and welcome to the programme that brings together some of the uk s leading commentators and foreign correspondents whose stories are published back home dateline london. this week, is coronavirus extinguishing not only lives and jobs but also our appetite for polarised populist politics? within days, if the polls are right, we could see the end of the extraordinary trump era. here in the uk, borisjohnson‘s conservative party is five points behind in one poll, and jeremy corbyn, labour s former leader, has been suspended from the party. amidst a crisis, do we crave the conventional politics and duller virtues of competence and compassion rather than the swagger and promise of the populist? after the 2008 financial crisis, angela merkel in germany survived whilst other incumbent governments fell. is that a template for how politics will settle after covid 19? joining me this week ned temko from christian science monitor and jeffrey kofman, the north american wr ....
london. hello, i m shaun ley. welcome to the programme that brings together leading columnists in the uk, bbc specialists, and the foreign correspondents who send their stories to audiences back home from the dateline london. this week the eu and uk agree to keep on talking. the us supreme court declines to hear. and borisjohnson sees no covid crisis because of christmas provided it s a little one. joining us this week, iain martin, whose columns appear in the times newspaper. jeffrey kaufmann, a former network news anchor in the united states. and here in the studio with me is celia hatton, asia pacific editor for the bbc. welcome to you and to both of you twojoining us remote. it was the english puritans who cancelled christmas. borisjohnson is no puritan. in the 17th century, the festival had become an excuse for licentiousness or to use the lingo of 2020 failing to observe social distancing. this week, the welsh government departed from the uk wide consensus ....