you to school, and margaret thatcher is like the headmistress who lays down the rules and tells you what you should do. so, she has this great body of knowledge, and by all accounts applies it very wisely. she knows what her limits are. she knows she should not make over public safety -- statements. she asked to maintain neutrality, sort of above politics i think people who meet her value having someone in that position who is a wise guide. >> it must be difficult to balance history, tradition, and also being a modern monarch. >> yes, and that is the subtitle of my book because i was really surprised to the degree she has modernized along the way. not overtly, but incrementally, so it does not upset people to much. the pace has probably quickened a bit since diana, having gone through that difficult week after she died, when people turned against the queen, were not -- for not coming to london right away. one of the things they did, and she gave a speech saying there were lessons to be learned for the way diana lived, and they went to a political pollster for the first time. >> yes,

president reagan was very close obviously to margaret thatcher, as we all know. he also felt very strongly about helmut kohl. he also felt very strongly about brian mulroney of canada. he had not the same feelings about francois mitterand of france. [ laughter ] he had a strong relationship and friendship with mikhail gorbachev. one of the other famous lines of reagan was the russian proverb that he used all the time. trust but verify, and that's what symbolized his relationship with gorbachev. we used to kid inside the white house that president reagan, god help us, trusted everybody, and nancy reagan and i were the verifiers. he had an awful lot of faith in his vice president, in george herbert walker bush. he thought he was the right person to carry on his presidency, into george herbert walker bush's presidency. he knew that the relationship with the then soviet union would be solid. that's why we brought george herbert walker bush with us. there is a great photo, i'm sure you have in your archives, it's the only time i was ever allowed to play advance man in

wisconsin is england, scott walker is margaret thatcher. (laughter) the public school teachers are the british mining union which is makes barack obama ili elliot! oh no! no! no! damn it stkpwr-frpblts damn it! he'll capture our hearts with his graceful yes, sir masculine dancing. (laughter) the point is, this was such a big deal it attracted cable news hreb tritttys like neil cavuto, ed schultz and brett bear who could pass the "your neck must be this thick to enter wisconsin" sign. (laughter) now, everybody who was anybody was all in on this badger state election-- except one. >> where is president obama? president obama isn't stopping istoppingin wisconsin this week. >> yes, wisconsin did not get a visit from the president. this is the most insulting thing to happen to the state since someone declares this milwaukee's best. (laughter) but folks i'm not surprised. see, obama knew the writing was already on the wall-- and not just for him. >> i think this is a repudiation of big unions, number one, big labor. the unions knew they were losi

he and thatcher both. that reagan was a person he could do business with and not simply an ideologue. i would say in general, we had excellent support from our allies in working out the cold war. so it was not just a bilateral thing. so that is often the way it is viewed. and those of us dealing with the soviet union, we dealt very closely with our allies along the way because we knew we had to keep that. and of course, any policy of negotiation and working out the problems was popular with the allies. >> okay. over here. >> my history is, i was the first person to manufacture merchandise after world war ii. >> can you put the mike up? there we go. >> can you hear me? >> yep. >> i have the first person to have a company that manufactured in orient to import to the united states after world war ii. and one place we went to look at economics, which hasn't really been talked about much tonight, was moscow. my partner was matsui and company. and they had an office in moscow. and my wife and i went -- my work w

our efforts found a supporter in british prime minister margaret thatcher. today as the senate approves this agreement, the reasons for their opposition, i believe remain as persuasive. when i met with mrs. thatcher, she grasps the issues at stake. her conclusion on the treaty was unforgettable. she said what this treaty proposes is nothing less than the international nationalization of roughly 2/3 of the earth's surface and referring to her battles dismantling the state-owned mining and utility companies, shedded you know how i feel about nationalization. the nashl idea underlying the law of the sea treaty is that the riches of the oceans beyond national boundaries are the common heritage of mankind. thus supposedly owned by all people and actually means they are unowned. this idea of ownership should which is encompassed requires that anyone who finds a way to make use of such riches by applying labor or technology or risk taking are required to pay royalties of unknown amounts. potentially billions, possibly tens of billions. over an extended period, ill-

and margaret thatcher has the guts to stick it through because she was not socialist.aid, as you know, socialism is great but soon you run out of other people's money. and, other people is us, we should create individual wealth gauze that creates individual freedom against a totalitarian government which the socialists want. they want government rich and people poor. we believe in something exactly opposite of that and that is where europe is headed toward a totalitarian government with the people poor and the government bloated and rich. >>neil: it is sad, but even though you think you an expert having work with mapper -- thatcher, in the movie on her, this was a great scene where the entire aide, cabinet, whatever you guys call it, was turning on her and she said we will keep doing this, and you can all quit if you want. you can all quit. but she stood her ground. what do you think of republicans if this country getting nervous in the face of spending cuts and the like, and say, boy, we are alienating people. can they hold their ground or should they? >>guest: it is

so thatcher -- ian: that's a disappointing bogey for him but he went for the birdie. jim: he'll drop back to tie fourth. with rollins and chark and davis. if davis makes this one for his par. ian: quickly, back on leishman. stuart appleby went through victorian institute of sport. he went through with a good friend jarrod lyle. he's back home fighting leukemia. things went well with the bone marrow transplant. we wish you all the well, jarrod and his family. jim: davis a share of fourth. it's the best final round performance by an eventual winner on tour this year, 62. it better the 63 shot by john huh when he won the may kolba golf classic and the 64 by phil mickelson at pebble beach. so leishman moves up to 23rd. he is the new champion in golf and his best buddy, matt kelly, his caddie, his best friend, his best man at his wedding and his godfather to his little boy harvey. they shared it together today. very special indeed. for ian baker-finch, peter kostis, gary mccord, and our incredible technical production team led by jim rickoff and chris suspensen this week.

co-leaders at 12 under after three rounds, thatcher shot a 5-under 65 today including this nice birdie here on the 4th hole. england's brian davis wasn't too shabby either, shot a 6-under 64 on the day thanks to this birdie putt on the 7th. final round tomorrow for a top prize of just over 1 million bucks. >>> how about a little soccer? the quarterfinal in the euro 2012, spain taking on france. 18 minutes in, spain with the ball, check out the top right attorn corner of the screen. got to love the header! the first of two goals for alonzo in the game. take another look at that. that's all the spaniards would need to win. just minutes after the header, 1-0 spain when france gets a penalty kick, looks like it may have a chance there, but it's swatted away at the last second. spain wins 2-0 and advances to the semifinals against portugal on wednesday. england and italy play tomorrow. madrid is bananas. they might revoke on me if i don't correct what i said earlier tonight, spain winners 2-0. >>> racing, now. nationwide series takes a turn on the road course in elkhart lake, wisconsin. pro

chris: thatcher as well? >> thatcher was a political figure. the great thing about the monarchy is the head of state is not a political figure. she represents human beings. chris: i put them all in the same bag as an american. >> and had is why britain's monarchy is superior in many ways than the american presidency. the system works because you have, you channel all of your patriotism into this person, into this family. you don't have polarization. >> i have had experiences just with moments with the queen when she was here and also over there and one of the things that is not well known about her is that, look, this woman has traveled the globe and has met every head of government, every head of state since 1953 and she absorbs all of this information. so when you were talking about the advice she gave to david cameron, she gives not just political advice, she understands foreign policy. she is a very, very smart woman aside from all of the symbolic virtues. chris: sarah palin was right when she said game change, running england? >> you can q

this question is about this question is about margaret thatcher's impact. obviously she was someone who shared many of reagan's views about the need for communism to be defeated. she i think was not nearly as optimistic as he was about the prospects that you could actually end the conflict. but i think what she did was face down a lot of opposition that was growing throughout western europe to reagan's policies and the effort to take a more aggressive posture in response to what the soviets were doing in eastern europe. so when the united states decided to deploy the missiles to west germany and to britain, thatcher was one of those people who really led the fight and stood tall and was determined that that would be -- should be done. she thought actually that a lot of reagan's ideas about a world without nuclear weapons and negotiating an end to the arms race she thought like many conservatives here she thought that was somewhat naive. but i do think she was extremely important for being so steadfast. i think also, you know, the recovery of the western eur

thatcher is one of our most devoted readers. he knows what's wrong with every copy since i took over. read the cable. >> girls, delightful in cuba, stop. could send you prose, poems about scenery but don't feel right about stealing your money. there is no war in cuba. >> you provide the prose poems, i'll provide the war. >> that's good mr. kane. >> yeah, i rather like it myself. >> frederick remington is a name that wasn't in that movie. how does he fit into this? >> he was the artist whom william randolph hearst sent to cuba to illustrate and draw sketches of the cuban rebellion that had swept the island by 1897. remington travels there in the company of richard harding davis, who was becoming the best known, most eminent foreign correspondent, work correspondent in the united states. this is a real coup for hearst to send these two individuals to cuba. and supposedly remington found that everything was quiet in cuba, there was not going to be a war with the united states. he sent a cable asking hearst to -- if it would be okay

roland thatcher entered today as co-leader needed to birdie to force the playoff but instead find the bunker and bogeys the hole. mark leachman wins his first tour win and gets congrats from his fellow aussie stewart appleby. >>> when we come back, a tennis lend has much to say -- legend has much to say. we'll be right back.  >>> welcome back to the washington area nissan dealers sports xtra. >> 40 years ago this weekend title 9 became law. the landmark legislation prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in all education programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance. it has resulted in millions of women competing in intercollegiate sports like never before. billy jean king was in town to mingle can castle -- with kastle sponsors. she founded the women's tennis association and women's sports foundation. she told us title 9 is more than just about women in sports. >> i think a lot of people think it was just about sports and really it was an educational piece of legislation. the reason we have 54% of women enrolled in universities and colleges today is

very much so, simpson, thatcher. it was reed, simpson, thatcher and bartlett. and he lived this great life in wall street. you know, he was a very financially successful guy. but he hobnobbed with the really interesting people in the city of new york including mark twain and he -- reed gave a very funny testimonial talk at twain's birthday party just a few months before reed died. >> reed was 63 when he died, i think. >> let's see. 1902, yes. >> served in congress from 1877 to '89. speaker three times. >> three times. >> as you were doing your research on him, when did you start to really like him and why -- and how many books have been written and why haven't there been more? >> i'm afraid that my sales will bear testimony to this hypothesis. my hypothesis is that what people want to read are lives of people they know, and so there are an end to the inth number of biographies. and one of lincoln -- conrad black came out with a great doorstop, a wonderful book. so i think that the commerce, the powers that be in commerce line up behind the biographer who is tak

the letterhead i might point out that is a complete duplication of this margaret thatcher poster from 1979's general election labor isn't working is what it said then. just look there at the woman in the polka dots, apparently she couldn't find work in london, left britain and now in america is having the exact same problem if you believe mitt romney. it's a total cut and paste job like so many of mr. romney's policies. let's get right to our panel. david corn is d.c. bureau chief. joe williams covers the white house for politico. and a hispanic market expert and co-founder of the excel alliance. david if you were 34 points behind the president among hispanic voters how many times would you mention ronald reagan and china in your remarks? >> you know, i think you're being a bit unfair. this speech sound ad lot better in spanish when he said ola mitt romney yo tango, mucho tempo. buenos dias. this guy is in such a pickle. i don't know how to say it in spanish. he took a very clear, unambiguous, unequivocal position during the primaries. if you're hear illegally without documentation yo

thatcher that came from the right-of-center press. in her turn, i think she admired the businessmen who were prepared to take risks. so i think it was that meshing of those particular aspects that produced the strong level of support for her. and when i say i didn't want inherit it -- i didn'tic -- i didn't inherit it, plainly, it was different. >> thank you. and you make it clear, sir john, in paragraph 5 that you did not, um, engage closely with the maxwell press, center-left titles and didn't seek a close relationship with any part of the media, and you describe that as quixotic. what do you mean precisely by that? i mean, we know what the term means, but what did you mean by that? >> yes. well, of course, a natural symmetry between the press and politicians. the politicians, all of them -- myself included -- would like to have a supportive press. the press have a quite different objective. they need stories. and they wish to sell their newspapers. so it was quixotic not for me to be close to the press. i wasn't able to seek to inf

thatcher. can you expand upon that relationship at least as you would? >> i witnessed only of course those if i may enter the caveat first, i think the syrians died with mrs. thatcher would have a better merger that relationship then i had. but i saw it from a reasonably good vantage point. and margaret was probably the most right of center theatre for quite a long time. and i think that appeal to the natural instincts of many proprietors and editors at the time. and i think a support was accordingly often. there's also a number of policies that particularly appeal to them. i think there were common names in terms of things like a clear meeting of minds between proprietors and conservative government led by mrs. thatcher. they were common attitudes to business. i think there is a similar attitude towards the european union, not exactly the same because the parity that one often gets in mrs. thatcher's relationship with the european union is far from reality when actually saw at the time. and of

area -- thatcher era and the quid pro quo that his papers would endorse your election? >> this is the position i took because i believed it and it was completely consistent with the positions i took when i was with the labour party. >> i think was the 31st of march, 1997, which indicated your position. cause and effect is completely dissociated? >> my view was one of the essential things labour had to do was we were dogged throughout the 83, 87, 1992 elections saying we are going to repeal all this conservative legislation, which i thought was not simply foolish politically, i thought it was wrong. i went through all of those campaigns and in the end, i thought to close shop was wrong as a matter of principle. i did not need rupert murdoch or anyone else to tell me about that. had we had a different position, that would have been a big problem with newspapers, but we did not take that position for that reason. it was a very important part of new labor. >> the subsidiary question -- while you insisted the recognition procedure should be introduced, he insisted there shou

margaret thatcher it is there is no alternative. of course that's absurd. there was an alternative. we have to connect the dots to understand what is going on today. i read the chronicle. so what i've done is put together a montage of the murder of public sector, which is going on everyday. in fact all of the public sector is in body shape. public libraries, parks from the municipal to the national level. our character is among the worst in the world. the new deal deals with things in a different way. when i was going to school, california school's were the best. now they are among the worst with the new budget cuts. of course, my university is being privatized. all of the higher education is being privatized. all through the uc system. how do you run a modern state with tax cuts? we resort to desperate, back last november, we were asked to vote to make four indian casinos in san diego county pony up money. i thought this was a joke. they voted to do it. now, the governor proposes to borrow against future revenues. how did they deal with these social problems when the economic probl

. >> where is the thatcher privatization, the asset sales? remember, britain looked like brooes once and they were able to get out of it. where is this stuff? >> we need to see a very strong pro growth agenda for europe. i think europeans are coming around to this, along with the need for a long-term fiscal reality. are they going to listen to barack obama? we heard it from e.u. president barasso who said, we don't need to be lectured on what we need to do here. the best thing the u.s. and president obama can do is restart the engine of growth. this is the most important engine of growth in the year. >> key point. we are not leading by example. ed with ads coming up romney says people have lost patience with obamanomics. obama says, give me time. who will win that bat snl. >> romney, especially if he comes out with a reaganesque proposal, puts more muscle on pro takts reforms and things like that. people want change. they know this isn't working. maybe they have no credibility but why not call the imf and say, you have tried it for 30 years.

he and thatcher are tied for the lead at 12-under par. >> big difference a week makes. these guys are 12-under. they were at the olympic club, though. not the u.s. open. >> alan: coming up, there's a new pickup party out there. >> ama: involves a dark bar and smelly t-shirts. show you how that works >> ama: coming up at 11:00, robbery caught on tape. what led up to the attack and how the victim was able to get away. >>> plus, identity theft at the gas station. how tens of thousands of credit cards were targeted. those stories and much more tonight at 11:00. >> alan: now you can sniff your way to love. yes, there is a new twist on dating and it's not online. pheromone parties are now all the rage. party-goers are asked to submit a slept-in t-shirt that will be sniffed, and the theory is you pick your partner based on they're scent, which happens in the animal kingdom. parties have been held in los angeles and new york and san francisco is next on the list. >> ama: can't wait. >> alan: never know. >> ama: whatever works. captioned by closed captioning services inc.

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but nut council, and the only one i know of who declined to join this club was margaret thatcher, she wasn't interested in joining this club of women, but we now have over 40 women who are either in office or have been office as president or prime minister. so what interests me is we have a critical mass of women, not just at the top level but as minister, women of trade unions and i think it has to make more of a difference and a number of us are involved in ways of linking women in the way that women naturally network. we have a troika plus network on lit at. women's leadership tends to be more intergenerational, tends to be more aware we have to address this and put people at the center of the issue. we've established a top down troika plus linking with grass roots women's organizations and those already working on gender and climate change. it's a kind of innovative platform of leadership. the the nobel women are a good example. when the nobel peace women, when there are enough of them, four or five, they got together and it's now an institution. men had been nobel peace prize win

he was an adviser to prime minister margaret thatcher in the uk during the 1980s during that time that solid ified her s the iron lady. [ applause ] >> is there anything that you want to add to that? >> no, you were pretty thorough. >> i was a professor at the university of chicago. >> all right. actually it is -- right? >> executive vice president at the national black chamber of commerce. honed her business and development skills over several years with the minority chamber of commercial and as an owner of individual yo stores. signature annual convention in addition to her daily responsibilities for the organizations. personnel budgets and she has coordinated and supervised dedicated to african-american business development. >> thank you, that was good. [ applause ] >> that was perfect. >> thank you very much. >> toya powell, director of governmental engagement, access to capitol. we have heard that already. chamber development to promote economic empowerment prior to this, she was a real estate economist monitoring real estate markets and she is a business opportunity specialist at

end of margaret thatcher quote.'ll leave with this proposition china, can congress learn from the experiences of estonia, canada, and britain's thatcher? if we can, we can turn this u.s. economy around, and the economy and yobs jobs is the issue of this presidential campaign season. mr. president, let me ask somebody if they can shake their head, is there anybody else waiting to get the floor? because i'd like to take another three minutes i if i could on another issue. mr. president, skilled that my remarks that i'm going to make now be placed in the record when we -- where we do the debate on the f.d.a. bill. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. grassley: mr. president, two years ago a constituent of mine named david rosga committed suicide shortly after smoking a product called k-24, a synthetic form of marijuana. a week before he passed away, david had graduated from indinal high school. he was looking forward to attending university of northern iowa that fall. david and his friends spent the week after

either current or former and the only one that i know of who declined to join the club is margaret thatcher who with wasn't interested in joining this club of women. we now have over 40 women who are either in office or have been in office as president or prime minister. what interests me is we have a critical mass of women, not just at the top level as leaders of the unions and leaders of business and it has to begin to make more of a difference and a number of us are involved in ways of linking women in the way the women naturally network and in my own foundation we have the network called women leaders in climate because climate is undermining climate and the women's leadership tends to be more generational and more aware that puts people at the center of the issue and we've established a top-down plus, linking with grassroots women's organization and those working on gender and climate change and the nobel women are a good example where we have several women and we have a nobel prize winner among us now, but where the nobel peace women where there are enough of them, four or five, they

thatcher was croat -- quoted by secretary rumsfeld. if question is is there internationalization of the sea. it suggested maybe somebody might stretch this one bay to the atmosphere. on the other hand, they question we have to resolve is brought up and people mentioned lockheed martin. i received a letter that maybe other members of the committee have the i quote this part. it says the multibillion dollar investments needed to establish an ocean based resource development business must be predicated on clear legal rights established and protected under the treaty base framework of law of the sea convention including international seabed authority. on the one hand you can take the position that the ocean out there, whether it's close to our shorelines or 200 miles or not, is nobody's business. in essence, there is no idea of internationalization. nobody owns it. just a question of whether you want to go out and drill or not. take your chances. what mr. stephens is saying as a practical matter in terms of american businesses, very few of

prime ministers, either current or former and the only one i know to decline the club was margaret thatcher. that was not interested in joining this club of women, but we now have over 40 women who are either in office or have been in office as president or prime minister. what interests me is we have a critical mass of women not just at the top level, but minsters and leaders of trade unions and business, etc. it has to begin to make more of a difference and a number of us are involved in ways of linking women in the way they network. in my own foundation, we have a network of women leaders on climate. they are undermining poverty. they are huge gender dimensions. they tend to be more gender-generational. we have to address this and put people at the center of the issue. we established a top down class linking with grass roots organizations and those already working on gender and climate change. -it is an innovative platform of leadership and the women are a good example. we have several women and a nobel prize winner among us now, but when the peace women and there were enough of them, fo

i campaigned in 1980 with reagan and in 1979 after margaret thatcher won in great britain in an extraordinary historic victory, we actually met with the people who had run her ad campaign. we looked at what they had done and how they did it. we applied many of these ideas in 1980 in the united states. one of the reasons the reagan victory was so big is it was based on a fundamental conversation about reality on a basic choice. do you want to appease communism or defeat the soviet empire? do you want to balance the federal budget with reagan or continue to have huge deficits? do you want to continue inflation under carter with 21% interest rates, 13% inflation in the economy collapsing or do you want to go to stable money where if you save $1 it's worth $1. these were big choices that reagan offered, but they are very simple and very clear choices. i want to suggest to you that we have two simple statements. one statement and one question. which i believe would define this election decisively. the first is to ask people can you afford four more years? can you afford four more years of the wors

thatcher and the conservative party in all those 18 years. you know, they did, frankly, and do represent a certain strain of support that labor might have that hadn't had throughout the '80s and early '90s. so, you know, even if the situation had not been as i describe, if i had been given the chance to go and persuade them to come over to labor, i would have taken that. so that's why i think it's just important that we try and calibrate this very carefully. otherwise i think we will get into a situation that's a bit unrealistic. >> do you accept that you may have contributed to the mystique, if i can put it in that way, by at the time not publicizing each meeting with mr. murdoch or, 3 by, inviting him through the back door? >> i don't think we publicized any meetings with the media people actually. the reason having not just him but certain people who you then spend days trying to explain what you were talking about, is simply that you would spend days explaining what you were talking about. i think in future it's probably better you publis

murdoch or anyone else believed in this, we were not going to reverse the key principles of the thatcher legislation. i did that for reasons, because i thought it was right. >> there's a later diary entry, this is page 11 of this bundle, we're a few days later so i don't know the exact date, although we know the piece in "the sun" was on the 17th -- the first piece in "the sun" was the 17th of march, 1997. the second was the 17th of april, 1997. the top of our page 11, mr. campbell notes that meanwhile i called stewart higgins, as agreed, and he said that clearly had we had gave them a piece of europe. they put it on the front. i spoke to t.b. and we agreed to go for it. t.b. felt it could be the last thing needed to swing the "sun" round. pausing there, is that -- pardon me, is that accurate or not? >> yeah, that's accurate. >> we agreed it was important not to change in any sense the policy, but in turn to allow them to put over the message that the t.b. was not some kind of caricature fanatic. do you feel that the distinction between those two is a little different to see? >> no, i th

what the europe wants with the rest of europe, god if we can do this, this derag galatian, a reagan/thatcher, clinton welcome reform sort of moix tour, relaxing the rules on hiring and firing, if we can do that, certainly you can do that, but monti's given up, and so the price goes one the bonds, interest goes up, when he gives up on the notion that he's going to eliminate the requirements because you can't lay off anybody in italy without a court approval. i said this is one of the more liberal judges, he said "you cannot do what in italy?" i said you cannot fire anybody, it's also true of france. you can't fire anybody without a court approval. "without my approval" said the judge, i said yes. he said "that's insane." well it is insane, and today we learn in the "new york times" a european court of justice ruled that if you get sick on vacation in europe, you get to take your vacation over again. it used to be if you got sick before vacation could you postpone it and take it over again. now they've just ruled -- i've got it here, you can read it in today's paper if you get sick during vaca

not repeated again, but in the 1980s this organization was captured ideologically by reagan and thatcher, and now it's a little unclear where it stands, but a month ago the chief economist of the oecd made a presentation on the state of the world, and he said countries are doing everything right. now, understand, this guy's ideas of right are orthodox economics. countries are doing everything right and still going off the cliff. now one of the reasons i like working for rich trumpka, he was on the panel responding to that, and he said back and said if you think you're doing everything right and you're going off the cliff, maybe you're not doing everything right. [ applause ] i've got one graph for you. bad policy choices over a generation produced this truly bizarre outcome which is at the heart of everything that's gone wrong. the blue line on this chart is personal consumption as a percentage of our economy in the united states, and can you see that from 1990 and to 2010 it keeps going up and up and up. you go back to 1980, it moves up a full 10% of gdp, a gargantuan number. now, would

imposed on trade you know 81s by the various trade unions act and associated legislation passed in the thatcher era and the quid pro quo was that his papers would endorse your election? >> no. this was a position i took because i believed in it. actually it was completely consistent with the positions i had taken when i was employment spokesman for the labor party. >> as i put to mr. murdoch a piece in "the times," i think it was the 31st of march, 1997, which indicated your position. but cause and effect here is completely disassociated, is that it? >> yeah. my view was one of the essential things labor had to do, you know, we were dogged throughout the '83, '87, '90, '92 elections with a position that said we were going to repeal all this conservative legislation, which i thought was not simply foolish politically for us, i thought it was wrong. you know, i went through all those campaigns. and in the end, i thought the closed shop was wrong as a matter of principle. i still do. so i didn't need rupert murdoch or anyone else to tell me about that. now, it's true, had we had a different positi

either current or former, and the only one that i know of who declined to join this club was margaret thatcher. she wasn't interested in joining this club of women. but we now have over 40 women who are either in office or have been in office as president or prime minister. so what interests me is we have a critical mass of women, not just at the top level, but as ministers, as leaders of trade unions, as leaders in business, et cetera. and i think it has to begin to make more of a difference. and a number of us are involved in ways of linking women in the way that women naturally network. in my own foundation, we have a network called the troika plus of women leaders on climate, because climate is undermining poverty. so they're huge gender dimensions. and women's leadership tends to be more intergenerational, tends to be more aware that we have to address this and put people at the center of the issue. so we've established a top-down troika plus linking with grassroots women's organization and those already working on women and gender change. it's a platform of women leadership. and the nobe

day of golf's travelers championship in connecticut englishman brian davies and american roland thatcher a two shots clear at the summit both players looking for their first win on the p.g.a. tour davis teeing off here carded a sixty nine on the penultimate day which puts him on twelve under overall and alongside him is that you who hit a five under par sixty five. and this chip to set up birdie typical of his short game on saturday. and that is all the sport we've got more later all next day is the. well. science technology innovation all the latest developments around russia we've got the future covered.