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 science mon
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 writer a
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 broke
the needle tears a hole the old familiar sting try to kill it all the way but i remember everything what have i become my sweetest friend everyone i know goes away in the end and you could have it all my empire of dearth i will let you down i will make you hurt good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, january 7th. the morning after one of the saddest, most chaotic days on capitol hill in history. just hours ago, congress confirmed joe biden s election victory, but let s get everybody caught up on what made that normally mundane task such big news. pro trump rioters, insurrectionists, incited by the president stormed the united states capitol in a failed attempt to thwart the certification of joe biden s win. here was the president addressing his supporters just before the capitol was breached for the first time since the war of 1812. and we re going to have to fight much harder and mike pence is going to have to come through for u
video said other clowns played with the lips on the obama mask, and that the whole thing felt like a clan rally. this is ugly and tone deaf, but increasingly, the republican party is refusing to listen to anyone except its own carnival barkers. today republicans voted to boycott nbc and cnn as debate sponsors if the networks don t scrap their hillary clinton films. we re done putting up with this nonsense. there are plenty of other news outlets. we ll still reach voters, maybe more voters. but cnn and nbc anchors will just have to watch on their competitors networks. now whether you like the idea of a hillary movie or not, it does seem strange that the gop s big idea to reach more viewers is to shut out two national networks from debates, while reportedly trying to get the gop ringmaster himself, rush limbaugh, to moderate instead. after the election, the gop said to get more votes it had to widen the tent. instead the circus tent is collapsing. and today political repor