kate, the daily mail have this story about a statue of the iron lady, margaret thatcher.g blocked because it might be eight target for vandals. they say left-wing activists might use this statue as a point of protest and we have seen before that the winston churchill statue there has from time to time ended up with a code on its head and it is the most dishes that will thing andl it is the most dishes that will thing and i can understand the concerns about having lady that you —— lady thatcher, statue of her there andl —— lady thatcher, statue of her there and i think why should we not celebrate her and make sure she is there so that people can see it and it is also part of our political history as well. somebody's phone is ringing! we will politely ignore it! not mine! the times have got a story about the hard left in a plot to oust dozens of labour mps. about the hard left in a plot to oust dozens of labour mp5. the section hit list as corbyn takes an 8—point lead. section hit list as corbyn takes an 8-point lead. just when you think things might have been going the rig

steve was talking about margaret thatcher before.r pomp, they said "tina", — there is no alternative, and now you have an incredibly weak theresa may and it is still tina, there is no alternative. isn't that what is keeping her in office in the first place? yes. if there was a formidable figure waiting in the wings, if there were the equivalent, as there was in 1990 when thatcher finally fell and michael heseltine, john major and douglas hurd... i don't think she would be here now. the fact is that there isn't. those who want to be leader aren't sure they would win at this point, so they are not clamouring for a leadership contest they might lose. that keeps her in place. this is the worst thing which could happen to this country, in this critical time. you need not a fragile government, you need a strong government, otherwise you will be blackmailed from outside and inside. a critical time because of brexit? because of brexit, because of terrorism, because of the economy, because of the changing on atmosphere all over the world, pol

it is margaret thatcher's vision, that there is no such thing as this society.tect healthcare and social security, and it is finishing the job that reagan and thatcher started. margaret thatcher believed in a community of communities, that society remark. misquoted her. laughter donald trump has tapped into the zeitgeist. two thirds of american voters who don't have a degree voted for him. i don't know if it was the zeitgeist. i45 academics and writers issued a statement in support of trump, and one was a philosophy professor at the university of texas, he said trump is pro—american, concerned about immigration because of economic effects and about factories closing down. these are not... trump is concerned about donald trump. this is his animating mission in life. it is to enrich himself and build himself up. anybody who tells themselves otherwise is... you are dismissing a lot of people who voted for him. i am not dismissing all of the people who voted for him. he ran a deeply dishonest campaign at a moment which, as you say, he tapped into the antiestablishme

i think mrs thatcher did. i think this is hard oi'i thatcher did.on philip hammond. i read his mansion house speech about two or three weeks ago and i came here that particular night to say i thought it was a very good speech. i thought he made it clear that we were leaving the customs union and single market but he was keen to have a transitional arrangement. it strikes me as eminently sensible. and you are pro—brexit... me as eminently sensible. and you are pro-brexit. .. i thought it me as eminently sensible. and you are pro-brexit... i thought it was eminently sensible and i couldn't see anything in the speech to object to, sol see anything in the speech to object to, so i don't see what is going on with these leave supporters. the whole thing seems to be getting out of control. that problem with that prominent brexiteers is that they are constantly on edge, they don't trust anybody, not even their own colleagues, they think this thing will be snatched from them, and they have won the battle but if they don't behave themselves, they will lose th

the difference is like thatcher trump is a portal threat to the left so the left under thatcher went crazy and by her 30 election in 87 the news meeting referred to them as the loony left so the first question the next year democrats keep drifting into this insanity representing a worldview that is 25% of the country. the republicans get their act together and not just get things done but communicate? they have done so much on veterans administration reform, such a weak communication system nobody realizes this is the best pro veteran house, and president, the best team we have had in modern times, doing real things, really working and they can't communicate any of them. they have to learn to do things and break past the elite media and make sure every american hears them despite all the hostility. if they saw that and if the left keeps going crazy we could have an election next year where we ground -- gain ground, not lose ground. >> somebody all the way in the back. all the way in the back, right there, go ahead. >> you are a true intellectual giant, widely respected from the point

thatcher there was no society which was an ideal not a description in fact the unwittingly she was paraphrasing marx who would condemn the french aristocracy if the repression because they were turning society into a sack of potatoes an amorphous mess and two in which individuals could not participate in function that's the new liberal ideal which such are stated quite accurately let's talk about run the regulators and this is bad and the capture of regulatory agencies by the very industries that are supposed to be regulated from regulatory capture goes way back very commonly the business world has actually instituted regulation of supported it to protect themselves from the highly destructive effects of an unregulated market which can be extremely destructive in the business world those norah been destroyed so they're kind of either tacitly supported or sometimes even initiated regulation on the assumption that they would be able to take it over and regulate it in their interests to a very large extent this happens so you fund that. the regulators for a particular industry are often very close

if you have a long enough memory to go back to the 19805, a conservative government and margaret thatcherhe was the secretary of state for education and education was up there at the top of the political agenda. here we are, the free 5chool5 at the top of the political agenda. here we are, the free schools are under threat from budget raid. all thei55ue5 under threat from budget raid. all the issues around education are coming up to the top of the agenda and there are some tricky i55ue5 coming up to the top of the agenda and there are some tricky issues for any government to face. staying with the times, councils bet billions on property purchases. an interesting story. british councils are betting on commercial property as they tried to replace revenue loss through government cut5. there is a quote that says council5 might as well be buying 5hare5 that says council5 might as well be buying shares with public money or betting on the 230 and scott. that i5 betting on the 230 and scott. that is the comparison that he makes. it i5 is the comparison that he makes. it is all a sign of the desp

thatcher had pressure in britain. like thece pressure germans. the courage they had to stand up , to large segments of their own people. on remaining part of the west when the temptation to neutrality was so powerful for so many years and also the insistence, the explicit insistence, given all of german history on creating a good society. that is one of the most impressive efforts in human history. >> all right. all done. >> let me ask one more question and then open it up to all of you. peter, it's a question that is a bit of a bank shot. in an era of 140 characters and 24 hour news cycles. do presidential speech is still matter the way they did 30 years ago? could a future president or this president give a speech like the one ronald reagan delivered in west berlin and had people talking about it 30 years from now? or are we just in a different era? >> the short answer is, we will find out. my own suspicion -- the longer answer -- speeches have to matter still. to hear i would love what other people have to say because my mind is not made up. m

and the daily mail headlines that plans for a statue of the late margaret thatcher to be placed outside we will talk in more detail about some of those. john, why do we start with the the ft and donald trump getting a warm welcome in warsaw. rapturous, a getting a warm welcome in warsaw. ra pturous, a turnout, getting a warm welcome in warsaw. rapturous, a turnout, people bussed in from the countryside by the government because they knew they would give him a round of

in the 1980's, president reagan and margaret thatcher succeeded in shattering the shackles of communism. not just because they railed against the cruel and desolate creeds that lurked behind the iron curtain, but because they presented the vision of a better life. i remember a few years back being struck by a description of what was called a beautiful moment when news of reagan's evil empire speech reached siberia. the words he wrote, the brightest most recent day finally a spade had been called a spade, finally all worlds newspeak was dead. had come upagan from that moment, make it impossible for anyone in the west to continue closing their eyes to the real nature of the soviet union. enough just's not to speak out against the aggressive behavior of russia in ukraine or in syria. to merge our adversaries to act in accordance with international law. we must also give hope to people across the world of a better way of life. friend saidttis, my in germany last week, marking the 17th anniversary of the marshall plan, he said we stand for freedom and we will never surrender the freedom of o

that's what happened under thatcher. and thatcher is much more like trump than reagan. because reagan never threatened the left in the united states. he defeated communism in moscow, but he didn't try to defeat it at stanford. the difference is that like thatcher, trump is a mortal threat to the left. and so the left under thatcher went crazy, and by her third election in '87, the news media routinely referred to them as the loony left. so the first question next year is do the democrats keep drifting into this insanity representing a world with view that is 20% or 25% of the country. the second question is do the republicans get their act together and actually get -- not just get good things done, but communicate them. they have done so much on veterans administration reform, and it has such a weak communication system that nobody realizes this is the best pro-veteran -- the house, senate and president are the best pro-veterans team we've had in modern times. they're doing real things. it is really working x they can't communicate any of it. now, they've got to both le

joining us now is director of the heritage foundation marking that thatcher center for freedom formerer thanks for being here good to see you. >> this have been calls for may to step town will this international show of support help her case. i think certainly donald trump clear display of support for u.s. -- free trade deal in hamburg at g20 summit a boost actually for these are these are, no doubt about it theresa may needs all support they can get a precarious situation for the prime minister, widespread speculation that she may face, a leadership challenge over summer or in the fall, ahead of the conservative party conference takes place early together without a doubt u.s. support for a u.s.-uk free trade deal massive boost very, very good news key priority for downing street the moment, is to begin the process of goshdz free trade agreements with countries across the world, those agreements can be put into place, once britain leaves the european union the end of march 2019. and certainly u.s.-uk crown jewel. >> we have seen global activity in europe pick up germany france strail

last week i spoke at the margaret thatcher security conference in london. its team was whether or not we are witnessing the decline and fall of the west. whether our western values were up to overcoming these new and present dangers. i argued then that not only can we rise to this challenge but we must, and that we will. we're not being attacked by these adversaries because we failed, because our values are redundant, and on the contrary, we're being attacked because we won, because we succeeded in spreading these values and beliefs across the world. today we are recovering our confidence in them. but in an age of contested interests in confrontation, our adversaries seek to use cyber warfare and misinformation to re-write the western narrative, to extend their spears of influence, and try to limit the freedoms that we championed. we have to learn how to remake those original arguments. in so doing, that will make our societies far more resilient, far less susceptible to the suffersry of our vefailures. no two nations are more equipped to make the case for

last week, i spoke at the margaret thatcher security conference in london. its theme was whether or not we are witnessing the decline and fall of the west. whether our western values were enough to overcome these new and present dangers. i argued then that not only can we rise to this challenge but that we must and we will. we are not being attacked by these adversaries because we failed, because our values are redundant. on the contrary, we are being attacked because we won. because we succeeded against spreading these values and beliefs across the world. ourtoday, we are recovering confidence. at an age of contested interests always prayedion, to doubt us where our adversaries seek to use cyber warfare and misinformation to rewrite the western narrative, to extend their spheres of influence, to try to limit those freedoms we champion, we have to learn how to remake those original arguments. because in so doing, that will make our societies far more resilient, far less failures.e to our that requires political leadership and no two nations equipped to make

the united states and must be treated as such. >> i think it was reagan and great friend margaret thatcher in with the idea peace through strength. let's see if we have the strength to result in the peace that we badly want and need. great having you. liz. >> well, coming up next we are going to tell you about the newest addition to our u.s. naval warship family and hero it's named after. boost. it's about moving forward, not back. it's looking up, not down. it's being in motion. in body, in spirit, in the now. boost® high protein it's intelligent nutrition with 15 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. for when you need a little extra. boost® the number one high protein complete nutritional drink. be up for it >> a music festival in barcelona spain and as you might imagine when stage went up in flames concert goers headed out for the exits, the website of tomorrowland festival says a technical malfunction caused the fire but firefighters say are still investigating on what sparked the blaze. thankfully nobody was hurt which as we know from pass fires specially when people evacuate

last week i spoke at the margaret thatcher security conference in london. it's the wise whether or not we are witnessing the decline and fall of the west york whether our western values were up to overcoming these new and present dangers. i argued then that not only can we rise to this challenge, but that we must and that we will. without being attacked by these adversaries, because he failed -- we are not -- because our values are redundant. on the contrary we are being attacked because we won, because we succeeded in spreading these values and beliefs across the world. and today where recovering our confidence in them. but in an age of contested interests and confrontation, always pray to doubters that our adversaries cq social media and cyber warfare and misinformation to rewrite the western narrative, to extend their influence to try to limit those freedoms that we championed. we have to learn how to remake those original arguments. because in so doing that will make our societies far more resilient, far less susceptible to the sophistry of our failed.

prior to joining us here at heritage and thatcher center he ed at a nonprofit in washington, d.c. as analyst as well as on advisory board company as beth a research associate and a associate director. please join me in welcoming danielle coaches. danielle. [applause] >> thank you john and good morning everybody on this beautiful here in washington. we're honored today to be joined by mark moyer who's book oppose any foe the rises of america special operations forces was described by national review as invaluable and highly readable overview of special operation forces history not just those for those qhor newly joining its ranks but also for anyone who seeks to know more about these glamorous and little understood forces. our author mark is director of the center for military and diplomating history here in washington, d.c. he's served as professor at u.s. marine corps. university and senior fellow of the joint spernl special operation university and senior leadership of u.s. military commands as well he holds b.a. law from harvard ph.d. from cambridge and in addition to book that

he was was rather sad that margaret thatcher was hostile to him.ter. why didn‘t she wanted him? because she was german —— because he was german. simple as that. his plan was that germany should be embedded in europe so that never again would you have a german europe. he would or would have germany as a democratic country, very much at the heart of europe with european values and that actually has happened. again, angela merkel was an eastern european, so she gained herfreedom merkel was an eastern european, so she gained her freedom when that wall came down and the country was united. she, like many people, oh him a lot and he was eventually taken down the rhine on a barge with the german flag on and a lot of people i do think the same thing. so, a good man. thank you, chancellor kohl. now, the sunday mirror, you might be forgiven for letting a performer have a drink before he goes on stage.|j letting a performer have a drink before he goes on stage. i love this. this is about paul mccartney. he is 75 and he is still touring but he now says he can‘

maybe the battle of all grief where police allegedly assaulted miners striking against margaret thatcher's government attempts to shut down britain's coal industries the possibility of a nuclear winter may have been averted this week as today strikes of a pensions atomic weapons establishment fight nor do mass that imperfect old have been suspended due to the government policy on offer arguably good news as these sites responsible for manufacturing nuclear warheads including teresa mayes two hundred five billion pound renewed have tried it but at least we don't have forward dancing with stars contestant and now united states for energy rick perry in charge of arnica are also because he was recently tricked by russian pranksters into thinking that he was talking to ukrainian prime minister about fuel made from pig manure now i want to see to produce a peach bennett to go through some of the week's counterpunches in social media be . wearing sort of a backyard brawl was predator at large pool joseph watson come straight out the gate swinging for the state mandated b.b.c. attempting to debug

and then came the political attack on the industry by margaret thatcher and by the economics that she. i told you what, never again must we go through a political attack on a community such as that against the mining community. never again must we a cce pt mining community. never again must we accept the economics that leads to that kind of decision will stop but when i talk about changing the political debate, i put it to you in this way, there was a global financial crash in 2008, nine, bought about by unregulated banks, greed, tax havens, by a sub—prime mortgage price that was so egregiously brutal towards many of the poorest people in the united states, and there was then imported here. imported here to a policy, a political choice of imposing austerity on the people of this country as was done in many other parts of europe. there was nothing ofan parts of europe. there was nothing of an economic necessity about that decision, there was no need to do it, you don't cut your way to prosperity, you invest your way to prosperity! and so, in this general election campaign, we call time

ok this is what it's about exactly this policy that it's going to section twenty eight margaret thatcher brought in the same kind of similar law where you couldn't promote a homosexual lifestyle situ order it was in law until two thousand and three and people seem to forget only did few years ago we had exactly the same law which was a backward step to move forward. and say that we have actually pictures of the march against section twenty eight there. which is what was put in quick enough to react to draw cities in this will draw them as russian really i think first of all western is need to know what chechnya is it's like literally comparing the falcons to the whole it is so far removed it's got a different religion different traditions different leader and people seem to be so interested in gay rights and southern russia all of a sudden when isis last year were throwing gay people off roofs so we were interested in that. not that it. should be the points that i saw on facebook a lot of people have talked about the atrocities carried out against gay people in iraq for instance were you

they are holding onto the nurse for the finding anything worse, which is what they about margaret thatcheret an election to happen. in 2010 everybody said the coalition would fall and it would fall over the first summer and then they said by conference, by christmas, by easter. for years we were constantly told there would be an election. but it was a proper, full coalition. that is true, she has a majority, the dup will not turn against her. there is a lot you can do without legislating atoll and getting frozen and carrying on in government for as long as they can, nobody wants that poisoned chalice of eating the brexit negotiations. of course the conservatives are nervous about losing the tenuous control of power they have, but rememberjeremy corbyn lost a c0 nfe re nce vote with his backbenchers. they are not convinced they can robbed of victory quickly either. isn't the big danger for the voting public that the parliament is there, but it is not doing any legislating? —— can romp. we have already seen the conservative party bend a lot of its manifesto. the focus is on brexit, they are

inspector nick thatcher was in charge of the first officers on the scene. it is very much a case of, you six, you ten, 12 or two, whatever numbers they arrived in, there's a problem there, this is as much as i can tell you, off you go, if you need help, let me go. my briefings to the officers were not great but it was moving so fast because again, as people were arriving, the fire was so aggressive. most who used to live in aggressive. most who used to live in a tower are still waiting for permanent homes. many are in hotels and four weeks on, it is taking its toll. it will be with me forever. i dream about it. every night it comes back to me. but you can't change it. it is going to haunt me for the rest of my life. following a series of failings by kensington and chelsea council, elizabeth campbell takes her position as leader next week and admits there is a lot of work to be done. the community is strong. the chasm is between the community, whether they are rich or poor, it is between them and the state, whether they've lost trust in local government and

sikhs in particular have been demanding an independent inquiry to establish the extent of the then thatcher government's involvement. in that attack in amritsar so that the likes of myself also been calling for it and i was very very pleased that jeremy corbyn tom watson. and the labor party actually included that within the manifesto within the labor party manifesto in the twenty seventeen election we were very happy with and juxtapose next to that action is the fact that the conservatives whether it was under the cameron government whether it's under the current to raise them a government they are simply brushing it under the carpet because they don't want to uncover the extent of that by having full disclosure on the issues well i mean that's your allegation angelina jolie's great friend the former you gave foreign secretary william a is on the record for saying that u.k. assistance for the attack or massacre at the golden temple in a murder was just in a purely advisory or if it was in a purely advisory capacity then why don't we have full disclosure you know that that will establish th

killed in british society and not only that but it targets northern cities especially hit hard by thatcherism and the fall out of the twenty zero eight western economic crisis the allegations have been denied by the ministry of defense is private and controversial contract apartment capita but what happens if disproportionately poor british recruits go into the services and die in the service as well according to new research in the usa they may vote for perceived antiwar candidates like donald trump you remember when trump was antiwar right in my opinion we've spent four trillion dollars trying to topple various people that frankly if they were there and if we could have spent that four trillion dollars in the united states to fix our roads our bridges and all of the other problems our airports and all of the other problems we have we would have been a lot better off i can tell you that right now we have done a tremendous disservice not only to the middle east we've done a tremendous disservice to humanity that people that have been killed that people have been wiped away and for what as wel

i might add, this persisted until margaret thatcher. domestically, why was the socialistic instruction of roosevelt's new deal ever allowed to happen with his republican constituents in the hudson valley? and were there reverberations into the 1950's? i have to say, i might get to that in another book. it is a very good question. a quick way to answer it this is say that i was born and raised in central pennsylvania, republican territory. my father and my grandfather were lincoln republicans. a both voted for roosevelt. which you describe the relationship between churchill and joseph kennedy? you must buy my book. fdr and kennedy? joseph kennedy we probably know, was very ambitious politically. he planned on running for the presidency, but decided to wait for jack and joe. he was the leading democrat politician in massachusetts. he aspired to high office, specially secretary of the treasury. roosevelt was reluctant to appoint him. in 1938 after being head of the sec, he accepted employment and wanted it as ambassador to the court of st.

thatcher had "cleared the way for president reagan to use british basis to launch a massive new attack on libya." another from ap -- italian premier told reporters saturday, april 12 in milan, i do not believe there will be a military intervention there before monday. same evening, nbc nightly news -- by monday, the diplomatic lobbying tour will be complete , and administration sources indicate that means a strike could come as early as tuesday. washington post -- after consulting conservative prime minister john schrock by telephone, it was decided to deny the american request and the french refusal was communicated to washington the following morning, saturday, april 12. in the day before the bombing, nbc nightly news -- administration officials say the president is moving toward a decision about whether to make it retaliatory strike against libya, and white house officials confirm the president will have a special, national security meeting tomorrow to evaluate the today the president conferred , with vice president bush, secretary of state schulz, both of them are believed to favor

unexpected things in relation to the prime ministers you worked with, three of them, ted heath, margaret thatcherhere are bottles of champagne being broken over the bows of the ship with this relaunch. i think she is obviously in difficulty. she is in office but not i think in power. because the conservative party is quite nervous that any attempt to find a successor would divide the conservative party even more fundamentally than it is already divided. she is not a bad woman. i think she is quite limited and i think that she allowed herself at the early stages of these doomed brexit negotiations to line up behind the people who wanted a hard brexit or no deal being better than a bad deal and so on issues like the role of the european court of justice, on immigration, i think the government have got into a particularly difficult corner. i think it's going to be a struggle to get out of it without either loss of face or considerable bashing for the national interest. let's broaden this out and talk about one of the themes in your book, the idea of identity in politics. we all heard donald trump in

my childhood was in the 80s, the are era of reagan and thatcher and there was no alternative. that was about advancing a set of radical free market ideas, privatization deregulation, taxes paid for with cuts to spending with huge expansions. that was sold based on the idea that there was no alternative to it. elites had to break their own rules right out in the open. everyone saw it was possible to find trillions of dollars after we were told there was no money for schools or daycare or hospitals. the spell was broken. we are in this time period where the progressive imagination is being unleashed. now the utopian imagination is being rekindled. you see it in documents like the vision for black lives which is really an exciting bold policy document that is how to get at the underlying causes behind violence. it's about changing society and the economy with racial justice at the center. i've been involved with the project at the leap.org which is a similar approach, but just as progressive ideas are surging in popularity and were saying the unsalable and they're doing better th