you see, to the elizabethans, cromwell was a hero.me ago to the victorians he was a villain. so something happened at some stage in between, and he is a reflection, like most historical figures, between, and he is a reflection, like most historicalfigures, the times —— of the times. we are not looking at him, we are looking in a mirror. you explain that very well. i think that is a very interesting point. how and when did you become interested in him, because you had wa nted interested in him, because you had wanted to write about him since the start of your career, haven't you? i've began work on a historical novel and i was very young, 22, not long out of university. and i really saw myself as a historical novelist, andi saw myself as a historical novelist, and i thought, right, first i will do the french revolution and then i will turn my mind to thomas cromwell. and of course it doesn't work like that. no one's career is that smooth. and just as well, because i could write about the french revolution then, it was made by young men

west point having an aristocracy , or it would be like the british standing army with an american cromwell. you could say that was enter jackson. [ laughter ] >> but jacksonian rhetoric was very anti-west point and authority. very anti-officer. jacksonian writers and newspapermen propaganda would say, get rid of west point. all of the officers should be promoted. first be privates, than soldiers and then officers. or the officers should come from the militia, they should be citizen soldiers. not people paid by the government for 10 to 30 years. >> they would draw parallels to britain we had half payoff officers. they were the semi retired, getting a pension of half their pay and could be called back into the army. >> the jacksonians would say, that's like a government monopoly, it's a government privilege. the government is giving these officers money, and of course officers will support the government. it will be like a military- industrial complex. >> there might be some foresight there. but when it came down to it, the jacksonians did suggest. despite the rhetoric, west point was abolis

jews were expelled in 1290, readmitted under oliver cromwell.italist industrialisation in britain, which was oppressing the downtrodden working classes. i have to say, it is in labour's dna, it is in its blood, it has been morphed by anti—zionists. i think it is an outrageous suggestion to say that all of this has been got up in order somehow to get rid ofjeremy corbyn, to do down the labour party.” wa nted to do down the labour party.” wanted to ask if it also has something to do with the actions of the israeli government. you can criticise... i criticise the israeli government and public. that's fine. but one of the examples of anti—semitism that the labour national executive committee left out of the code of conduct was the allegation thatjews are out of the code of conduct was the allegation that jews are somehow in an internationaljewish allegation that jews are somehow in an international jewish agenda allegation that jews are somehow in an internationaljewish agenda which transcends their loyalty to the country of which they happen to be

robert holliman former deputy trade representative under the obama administration and president of cromwellany things, mr. ambassador, we hear one thing from the president and the administration about how great this deal with mexico is, and then critics say, i don't know, i've heard it likened to the north korean agreement, that it accomplishes very little or we won't know how much it accomplishes until later what does it accomplish, anything positive? >> well, it's encouraging that we've now come to a general agreement with mexico. what we've got to get now is to get canada to the table. really think of nafta as essentially elective surgery it was sort of a pacemaker, it's at the heart of our economic strength as a country. it needed to be updated. we've now gotten part of the work done. but the final work really comes in working out a deal with canada so that this truly is a north american deal. so the remaining elements have to be added. but now that we've gone down this path, it's good that we've gotten the framework of a deal on the table with mexico. >> is managed trade something that