a nationwide security crisis. now on bbc news, dateline london. hello and welcome to the programme, which brings together leading british commentators with journalists from overseas who write, blog, podcast and broadcast to audiences in their home countries from the dateline: london. this week liz the disruptor, emmanuel the moderniser, vlad the invader. the first has a comfortable majority but has already had to wave the white flag. the second vowed to reform, and the voters promptly deprived him of his majority. the third can ignore his parliament, but perhaps not the people, who are voting with their feet. leadership who wants it? in the studio to discuss that triumvirate, a dateline triumvirate. jeffrey kofman, who s anchored news programmes in both his native canada and the united states, and reported from the frontline. marc roche, a belgian born economist who writes for the french news magazine le point. polly toynbee, weekly columnist with the guardian for almost
that is lighter winds in place and a chilly night to come for wales and parts of england. there could be a touch of frost, temperatures down to 2 degrees. the breeze picks up in the west and that is ahead of cloud and rain spilling its way in. temperatures in stornoway, glasgow, 10 degrees. a dry enough to start for early risers but rain spilling in. we may have heavy rain in cumbria and north wales late in the day. dry and sunny again for the south and east. hello this is bbc news. the headlines. a massive fire has severely damaged the strategically important road and rail bridge connecting occupied crimea to russia. ukrainian officials say they ve found two mass burial sites in the recently liberated town of lyman one with around 200 graves. funerals are being held in thailand for the children and teachers killed in a massacre at a nursery school. police say seven people have been killed in an explosion at a petrol station in county donegal, in the republic of ireland. no
The institute for fiscal studies says, even allowing for the top tax cut having been taken away again, within the existing structure of income tax, that s what has happened. that s just not publicly acceptable. jeffrey, she did promise to be a disrupter. she promised to be a disruptor, based on phoney economics. i the zombie economics, saying, reagan did it. i if we look at history, reagan s tax cut. i if they worked for him, why not for us? they didn t work. that s the point. if you read any serious - economic analysis of the 1980s in the us, those tax cuts did not. - crosstalk. the trickle down. the bounce back happened when clinton raised - taxes, in fact. this idea that cutting it - for the rich somehow makes the rest of us better off? it s an absurd ideology. what you re seeing clearly is that this country - is in the grip of- the right wing version of a trotskyite.
The rest of us better off? it s an absurd ideology. what you re seeing clearly- is that this country is in the grip of the right wing - version of a trotskyite. she is such a believer. in her own perfect view of the way we should go, - i kinda feel like it s the flip side of the jeremy corbyn coin. they know better than we do what s good for us. - and don t let the facts get in the way. - she would say you ve signed up to the anti growth coalition. she would, and these are very good rhetorical, you know, build back better and these - three word rhymes that allow them to sayjust get it done or get brexit done, whatever it was. she is hoping that it sticks - and she can distract us with this kind of empty rhetoric. the reality is, i think the people of britain really need to ask - themselves what s going on. we had a negligent prime minister in cameron who let the referendum happen, - thinking he could sail through. we had a rudderless prime minister
Politics in Britain at the end of the eighteenth century was described as the “Old Corruption”. The state was, at every level, in the hands of the great landowners and their allies. It was used to serve their interests, to protect their wealth and privilege, and they ruthlessly pillaged it to further enrich themselves. Place and position were wholly at their disposal. What made all this possible was the enormous scale of social and economic inequality. This Old Corruption came under sustained assault from a number of directions in the course of the nineteenth century.
It was attacked by the new capitalist class that was emerging and was determined to have the state represent their interests. Allied with this class was a new middle class, educated professionals whose great victory was the creation of a modern civil service where entrance was determined by examination rather than aristocratic sponsorship. But there was no great revolution in nineteenth century Britain to overthrow