but you had produced a young nick robinson.rst becoming an even younger martin lewis had produced a young nick robinson. correct. and the bbc had not quite seen your talents. after i left university, and i was not very involved in student politics. i was very political then and i left uni, i went to work in the city in financial pr and then i did a postgrad in broadcastjournalism. after that i came to the bbc as a producer reporter and except my contract was producer reporter. i was never allowed to report because classically the bbc put you where it wanted you to be, shall we say it like that. that delicately put about the fact that we completely missed one of the great talents journalistically of our age. you turned yourself into an on screen figure moneysavingexpert on a new sort of digital channel. simply money. had you any idea that that would be the rest of your life? no, not a clue. although that was the first moment when, bang, you know, i was desperate to get out of bed and do myjob and excited about what i was creatin

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now on bbc news, it's time for political thinking with nick robinson. welcome to political thinking, a conversation with rather than interrogation of someone whose political thinking shapes all of ours. this week my guest is a symbol of the modern labour party, a symbol if you like of a party of two eras. on the one hand, 13 years in power. on the other, 12 years of powerlessness. yvette cooper was once a young rising star of the new labour blair and brown years, but what followed was the wilderness years of opposition, summed up for many by the night on which her husband ed balls lost his seat, as a neighbour of hers in yorkshire. cooper ran to be labour leader againstjeremy corbyn and lost and lost badly. keir starmer brought her back to front line politics, asking her to become shadow home secretary. yvette cooper, welcome to political thinking. good to be here, nick. i'm sorry to mention the powerlessness! when you watch the tory infighting this week, who is going to be leader? and nobody says keir starmer. it's, "will it bejeremy hunt, will it be b

now on bbc news, it's time for political thinking with nick robinson.

now on bbc news, it's time for political thinking with nick robinson.elcome to political thinking, a conversation with rather than interrogation of someone his political thinking helps to shape ours. once again, london and brussels are at loggerheads. once again, the row between the uk and the eu is about the status of northern ireland. once again, politics in belfast is deadlocked, with unionists refusing to share power with sinn fein. my guess is someone whose life and career is based on a refusal to take sides in the political battle. it is a decision that has paid dividends for naomi long, who leads the alliance party, which won a record number of seats in the recent elections. brought up in one of the most fiercely loyalist parts of east belfast, she insisted that politics should not be defined by whether you want northern ireland to stay in the uk or instead to be united with the rest of ireland. but does she and her party really represent anything more than simply none of the above? naomi long, from belfast, welcome to political thinking. hi ther

now on bbc news, nick robinson in conversation with people who influence our political thinking aboution of someone whose political thinking shapes all of ours. this week my guest is a symbol of the modern labour party, a symbol if you like of a party of two eras. 0n the one hand, 13 years in power. 0n the other, 12 years of powerlessness. yvette cooper was once a young rising star of the new labour blair and brown years, but what followed was the wilderness years of opposition, summed up for many by the night on which her husband ed balls lost his seat, as a neighbour of hers in yorkshire. cooper ran to be labour leader againstjeremy corbyn and lost and lost badly. keir starmer brought her back to front line politics, asking her to become shadow home secretary. yvette cooper, welcome to political thinking. good to be here, nick. i'm sorry to mention the powerlessness!

now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking. queen has expressed her hope that her platinum jubilee celebrations will focus on what brings us together, on what unites us, not what divides us. my guest on the programme has had to spend much of her career worrying about exactly the opposite, about extremism and how to counter it. she is dame sara khan. herjob now is the government's independent adviser for social cohesion and resilience. before that, she was the country's first counter—extremism commissioner. born and raised in bradford to pakistani parents, she once said, "there is something going horribly "wrong within muslim communities. "we need to have an open and honest debate about that." words which won her praise from some, but criticism from many within her own community, who said that she was fuelling rather than countering some of the prejudices about muslim people, and in particular the idea that many were somehow hostile to their country and their values. dame sara khan, welcome to political thinking. thank you very

. >> nick robinson in london. an uncomfortable there. u.s. found that the prince in fact approved the hit of that american-based journalist and when pressed multiple times press secretary karine jean-pierre refused to address it directly. i mean, the question is why? is it "an inconvenient truth" as they head into what is a very important meeting for the u.s. especially at a time of very, very high oil prices? >> it is. saudi arabia is a swing producer of oil and so far it's sort of denied u.s. and european requests to up its oil output to offset the difficulties of getting oil out of russia at the moment, particularly for the european users. so this is an awkward moment. president biden went in on the campaign trail saying he was going to paint saudi arabia as a pariah state. the saudis expected the first year of the relationship with a new white house administration, they expected it to be a tough ride. they didn't expect it to get this bad. now they find themselves in a position of being a very valuable ally and partner, not j oil, but ira

he's been speaking to nick robinson on the political thinking podcast.d want to be open and transparent, gosh, you got this out of me, i haven't spoken about this before, we talked about most of the time that the lord sits is about three until ten on a monday, tuesday wednesday and i said to them, look, i need to be straight with you in terms of the hours i can give, i'm very busy with myjob but most importantly, i have a nine—year—old daughter, and until she is 13, my most importantjob from 6:30pm until 8pm is to be with her and put her to bed. maybe until she is 12, whatever, i don't know. she has not got to that age. and so, i would see my role as being learning for three to five years with limited input, and then, gradually over the next five to ten years, committing more and more time to the house of lords if i became crossbench peer and less time to everything else. that's what you told the house? yes, and the interview, i think, went very well. i got very good feedback but i think that was a stumbling block, although they have invited me to apply

from a recent high, the nick a index in japan ended in the read off to the yen, slid to a 23 year low against the dollar. charlie robinson, as the author of the book, the time travelling economist, he explains what it means to be going into a bear and to bear market territory. what is telling us is that the markets were ready pricing in every session in germany that the i, 5, a survey of german industry was telling us that german manufacturing companies expect really bad times. and 6 months on china we were hoping was coming out of the, on the, on the coast lock downs for them to go back into them. and this is the biggest, obviously, the biggest manufacturer in the world, which means more supply shortages for the rest of the world, which means more inflation. and it was that inflation figure on friday, which really upset the market because it tells us the u. s. now is probably going to go into recession, it's going to have to keep on hiking interest rates to get inflation bad. but this whole is consistent with with recessions. and what is it's telling us, but we're going to see, it's going to be tough for people. i mean,