i will ask the historian neil ferguson. but first here's my take. the most interesting outcome of the three day summit between vladimir putin and xi jinping got limited media attention. describing their talks, putin said. we are in favor of using the chinese yuan for settlements between russia and the countries of asia, africa and latin america. so. the world's second largest economy and its largest energy exporter. together actively trying to dent the dollar's dominance as the anchor of the international financial system. will they succeed? the dollar is america's last surviving superpower. it gives washington unrivaled economic and political muscle. it can slap sanctions on countries unilaterally, which frees that country out of large parts of the world economy and washington can spend freely, certain that its debt will be brought up. by the rest of the world. the war against ukraine, combined with washington's increasingly confrontational approach to china have created a perfect storm in which both russia and china are accelerating efforts to div

well i think as neil ferguson the neil ferguson the other neil ferguson says in his book doing whichimilar tragedies to this is a combination of a natural disaster and with poor political decision making which tends these natural events into events where there is a catastrophic loss of life and. i think that's a similar case here. and i would i would qualify the use of the word catastrophic. i think it's clear from what we've seen, the british state had no idea what it was fundamentally with. and this a pandemic that was not this is a pandemic that was not augned this is a pandemic that was not aligned to the pandemic planning that had . and that we already had. and what you in the first few months you saw in the first few months of the pandemic, especially the ministers governing ministers and governing institutions and scientists, all of in the nhs struggling , of those in the nhs struggling, to cope with something they didn't understand. so i don't think i've got that. i'm going to i'm going to i want to bring the others. look, jane, back to know. don't accept that i don't think t

well i think as neil ferguson the neil ferguson the other neil ferguson says in his book doing whichilar tragedies to this is a combination of a natural disaster and with poor political decision making which tends these natural events into events where there is a catastrophic loss of life and. i think that's a similar case here. and i would i would qualify the use of the word catastrophic. i think it's clear from what we've seen, the british state had no idea what it was fundamentally with. and this a pandemic that was not this is a pandemic that was not augned this is a pandemic that was not aligned to the pandemic planning that had . and that we already had. and what you in the first few months you saw in the first few months of the pandemic, especially the ministers and governing institutions and scientists, all of in nhs struggling , of those in the nhs struggling, to cope with something they didn't understand. so i don't think i've got that. i'm going to i'm going to i want to bring the others. look, jane, back to know. don't accept that i don't think the care sector will accept

knew we knew we knew that it was sickeningly back in was it was sickeningly back in the day back neil fergusonguy he was you know science guy from sage or something whatever thatis from sage or something whatever that is the university of whatever the thing was he's still reading facebook. yeah yeah. and where he where he was doing his i don't know if i can say words doing his girlfriend for me village coming on in i think it was these starlets coming on in while there was a total lockdown and. he's telling everybody they're going to die . everybody they're going to die. so to this party so boris johnson to this party while he's telling everybody that he's going to die either means one that he was lying to the people that people that people going to die or it that he didn't care that that people did die. but when got a photo like this when we're in lockdown , you've got a bunch of people standing around empty of alcohol faces blurred out faces. but except for him, said boris had, you know , it was a giveaway, you know, it was a giveaway, even blurred when we saw the before of him on the news.

if got neil ferguson losing it. if you live by the sword.positives i enjoyed are some positives and i enjoyed that. i mean, the thing that. yeah. i mean, the thing that. yeah. i mean, the thing that i can't in this that i can't find in this article a few times is article read a few times is when, the ban going when, when's the sex ban going to yeah, i it's time to end? yeah, i it's about time now isn't yeah it's episode now isn't it. yeah it's episode three three years yeah my three three years now. yeah my wife wasting so the wife saying she's wasting so the government's got the sign on government's got the big sign on the door. it is weird the bedroom door. it is weird reading support bubbles reading about support bubbles like such a it like it's like it's such a it feels like a different it is a different reality but you read was that cos yeah was like that like cos yeah we're like we have to choose our support bubble maybe a support bubble maybe quite a good we're, i mean good thing because we're, i mean i'm fifties, am already i'm in my

knew we knew we knew that it was sickeningly back in was it was sickeningly back in the day back neil fergusonguy he was you know science guy from sage or something whatever thatis from sage or something whatever that is the university of whatever the thing was he's still reading facebook. yeah yeah. and where he where he was doing his i don't know if i can say words doing his girlfriend for me village coming on in i think it was these starlets coming on in while there was a total lockdown and. he's telling everybody they're going die . everybody they're going to die. so to this party so boris johnson to this party while he's telling everybody that he's going to die either means one that he was lying to the people that people that people going to die or it that he didn't care that that people did die. but when got a photo like this when we're in lockdown , you've got a bunch of people standing around empty of alcohol faces blurred out faces. but except for him, said boris had, you know , it was a giveaway, you know, it was a giveaway, even blurred when we saw the before of him on the news. i m

if got neil ferguson losing it. if you live by the sword.sitives i enjoyed are some positives and i enjoyed that. i mean, the thing that. yeah. i mean, the thing that. yeah. i mean, the thing that i can't in this that i can't find in this article a few times is article read a few times is when, the ban going when, when's the sex ban going to yeah, i it's time to end? yeah, i it's about time now isn't yeah it's episode now isn't it. yeah it's episode three three years yeah my three three years now. yeah my wife she's wasting so the wife saying she's wasting so the government's the sign on government's got the big sign on the door. it is weird the bedroom door. it is weird reading support bubbles reading about support bubbles like such a it like it's like it's such a it feels like a different it is a different reality but you read was that cos yeah was like that like cos yeah we're like we have to choose our support bubble maybe a support bubble maybe quite a good we're, i mean good thing because we're, i mean i'm fifties, am already i'm in my

one of the reasons fronts of mind is i saw a naomi ferguson, a neil ferguson column in bloomberg yesterdaylly becoming less, are being more risk averse, more concerned. listen to this. this is so fascinating. the percentage of u.s. high school girls who have had, have ever had sex in 2011 was at 46%. now, it's at 31%. had sex with warm or partners, 13%. now, it's at 5%. currently, sexually active, 34%. now, 23%. drink alcohol in the past 30 days was at 38%, now at 26%. had ever used illicit drugs, that was 18%, that drop down to 15%. it's interesting. a couple of things going on at the same time. higher suicidal ideation, depression, anxiety, psychiatric challenges -- >> lower risky behavior. >> but again, the less risky behavior than even ten years ago. fascinating. >> yes, and fewer teen pregnancies. i think we agree those are all good things,. he were teen pregnancies, less alcohol, less drug use, you cannot discount that pandemic of the last few years and what that's done to kids. combined with micah was talking about social media, we just didn't grow up with. it allows you, in the cas

tom: i sound like neil ferguson. i am going to go there anyways.peo, desantis and the rest, how do they address with respect the gop aggrieved? annmarie: it is a great question. i think you are going to see them doing it in different ways. i think when you see governor desantis, he wants to make it about policy. you heard him over the weekend at the reagan library talking about conservative policies, what he is going to do. the have the republican legislature kicking off this week, that spans from tons of issues that he would call getting rid of "woke education" in his estate. he is going to go on a national tour promoting what he was able to do with his large republican majority in flora. if you look at his calendar, he is going to nevada, new hampshire. him and former president trump are going to early state voting iowa. that is his take. it might be more difficult for the likes of pompeo to go after trump. that is their former boss. already, you see mike pompeo and recent fox news say he didn't think the former president is that conservative. he

we have signed all our rights away, but if something dreadful emerges again and you'll neil ferguson.u don't do this lots of the other they may well do this lockdown again and i think we have to take it into our into our hands we can have a load of essentially in there and two people covering the world health organisation who are really controlled by china . bill gates controlled by china. bill gates now becomes a democracy. that would be good . it's not like would be good. it's not like that anymore . must preserve our that anymore. must preserve our rights to decide ourselves and not leave it to other people who will decide the worst scenario. we again i'm i'm say the who. of course is also not here to defend but thank you very much indeed , angus. angus dalgleish indeed, angus. angus dalgleish professor of oncology at st georges knows a about what he's talking about. i imagine you very much indeed forjoining us this afternoon. now, lots of you have been sending in your thoughts on whether the bbc were right to remove gary lineker from match of day. camilla from match of the day. ca