. >> david lloyd george. i'm sorry, go ahead. >> who i never knew, but anyway, it is my great grandfather. but the world was in a mess and what they had to try to do was figure out what to do with it. and they spent a lot of time of worrying about germany and you mentioned the ottomans, and the turks had a huge empire which included turkey and the balkans and included most of the arab territories in the middle east. suddenly the ottoman's had fallen to pieces and the arab territory was cut loose, and no one knew what to do with them. so this conference and those three men began to try to work out what to do with the arab world, not really taking much account of what the arabs themselves wanted to happen to want and what they in the end did. it's still with us today, they drew the borders, which are there in the modern middle east. >> when we last talked this war wasn't going on, and as you have watched this war, what can we learn from your book "paris 1919" about what has happened over there? >> well, what co

the party that once followed lloyd george now reduced to following george osborne. the party that delivered the people's budget of 1909 supporting the millionaires budget of 2012. they should be ashamed for all the talk, all the briefing, the deputy prime minister has done what he has done on every big issue. from tuition fees to the betrayal on the nhs. he has rolled over and said "yes, prime minister." the truth is that for ordinary families, it's hurting, but it's not working, and we know why. because this government has been cutting too far and too fast. what did the chancellor say? what did the chancellor say? last, last august about america's more balanced reduction plan. he said this. those who spend the whole of the last year telling us to follow the american example need to answer this simple question. why has the u.s. economy grown more slowly than the uk? mr. deputy speaker, the numbers are in. the chancellor is plain wrong. the u.s. economy grew at 1.7% last year, twice the rate of ours. this government has run out of excuses. it's their mistakes which a

the party of david lloyd george, now the party of nick cleg. >> i know she has her preprepared script that she sticks to religiously. but it's worth having a question and answer session, what we are doing on this side of the house, the two parties that came together in the coalition is sort out the banking system which she left in a mess. to sort out the public finances that she left in a mess. to sort out the economy which she left in a mess. to stop the privatization of the nhs that they left a mess. in government, the labor party ran out of ideas and in opposition they are running out of ideas. >> laurelly, birch. >> my friend may be aware of figures released this week that show there a their has been some progress toward the target of 15% of women on boards by 2015, what can our coalition government do to ensure that we -- that they meet this target and enrich our force with a diversity of talent to achieve the growth that we as a country need? >> i think it's excelleneen for progress to get more women on to our boards. i think everyone agrees that having more women on boards is g

. >> on her way to oxford, she is the grand daughter of george lloyd, the former prime minister of great britain. it's in the bookstores now. thank you. >> thank you. >> for a copy on dvd or vhs tape, call 1-877-662-7726, for free transcripts or to give us your comments about this program, visit us at qanda.org. "q and a" programs are also available as c-span podcasts. >>> each week "american history tv's" "american artifacts" takes viewers behind the scenes at archives, museums, and historic sites. in 1215, a group of nobelmen confronted the king of england demadding that their rights be recognized, written down and confirmed by royal seal. king john agreed, binding himself and his heirs to the magna carta or the great charter, granting fundamental legal rights to the noblemen, including trial by jury, habeas corpus and no taxation without representation. the 1297 version is still a law on the books in england and wales and that version was the first to apply these rights to all english free men. the charter was later cited in the writings of some of the founding fathers as they sought