margaret thatcher and jesse helms were cut from the same cloth. their youth forged in the small towns of middle england and western north carolina taught them that a nation is built on the home and the family, not with programs and bureaucrats. their protestant morality informed their politics. churchill and jefferson were their loadstars. evil to them was not an impolitic term to shy away from. evil was a threat to be confronted and destroyed. in the mid 1970s when mrs. thatcher was first elevated to the leader of the conservative party, her avout purpose was to reach out to potential allies across the ocean and she decided to come to the united states with the socialist prime minister of the united kingdom, james callahan, denied her the use of the british embassy where she could have set up an office and actually conducted meetings with famous americans. enter william f. buckley, called his friend, jesse helms, i need an office for somebody, she's sort of like you, she's just from middle england, but she wants to meet your friends. and out of t

margaret thatcher and jesse helms, global totalitarianism. senator helms used to say they don't understand. i don't care and neither does mike but no one was ever neutral about either of them and that is a testament to what they thought politics should be. not a total of they now let you but battleground for passion and ideas. never lost an election and that is what is often forgotten and they understood freedom better than many of their critics. senator helms resolutely believed american freedom required massive national defense. he told the veterans of foreign wars in 1973 sooner or later week america will be challenged. sooner or later a week america will have to fight or surrender. senator helms, in that small town in southwestern north carolina understood better than anybody, he said on that day the fighting will be done but it will be done is always done, by the average man, by the fellow runs the gas station, the fellow runs the little grocery store in north carolina and the barbers of north carolina, and people carrying rifles and he

a matter of fact margaret thatcher wrote jesse helms record is unmatched. also it was well known as a bipartisan senator and him and joe biden were very close friends and to this day the vice president will talk fondly of his relationship with helms and in the archives we refer to those love letters that biden and helms shared that are open and they are on the website that they are unique. in 2001 when he announced his retirement, mead wrote in the wall street journal opinion section "as senator helms prepares to step down, i cannot see how it feels we are looking for something to wear an american politics of benefits principle first in loyalty before ambition and we could do a lot more like him. and of course senator helms admiration is very well documented in october 6, 2000 he said if america saved heritage there is the enormous role. finally i know they would be so proud not only be humbled by this lecture but also incredibly's impressed of the secretary who served on his staff and when secretary wilkie stepped away senator helms wrote the letter to him

margaret thatcher and jesse helms work cut from the same cloth. they were charged in the and, north carolina tottenham that they were built with a home in a family, not with programs and bureaucrats. they're protestant morality and from their politics. evil to them was not an in politics term. evil was a threat to be confronted and destroyed. in the mid 1970s, when mrs. statues leader to the leader of the conservative party. her focus was to reach out to potential allies across the ocean, and she decided to come to the united states when james callaghan denied her the use of the british embassy. she conducted meetings with famous americans, william buckley, who called his friend jesse helms and said i need a favor. and in an office or somebody i want you to me, she just like you, she does from middle england, but she wants to meet your friends. out of that one phone call, mrs. that she began a journey that not only transformed the united kingdom, but let her to a role as john the baptist, heralding the arrival of ronald reagan a few days later. an

margaret thatcher and jesse helms cut from the same cloth. protestantism of their youth forged into small towns, middle legal and then the western north carolina. the nation was built on the home and family, not programs or bureaucrats. protestant morality informed their politics, churchill and jefferson -- evil to them was not an impolitic a turn to shy away from. evil was a threat to be confronted. in the mid-1970s when mrs. faster was elevated to leader of the conservative party her avowed purpose was to reach out to potential allies across the ocean and she decided to come to the united states, james callahan denied her the use of the embassy where people set up and conduct meetings with things. enter william f buckley, jesse helms said i need a favor. i need an office. just from middle england, she wants to meet your friends. out of that one phone call mrs. thatcher began a journey that normally transform the united kingdom, led to a role, john the baptist heralding the arrival of ronald reagan. margaret thatcher sat down with ronald rea

had done and there were loads of things about margaret thatcher in the last month so if you are notng... on the other hand people will find this quite difficult and i find it funny when you search for something and google auto complete plates and a full sentence which is completely wild and people regularly type in sentences. someone said that i do not think we are closer to solving language but this is a good step. we have another addition coming up at 11:30pm but clean collectors... i had to write that down phonetically. come back at 11:30pm and i will be back at the top of the hour but the headlines but for now for this hour, thank you to michael and don. another addition at the bottom of the ii another addition at the bottom of the 11 o'clock and at the mean time on the front pages on the website. you can watch it all back again on the bbc iplayer, see you at 11pm. hello again, happy and persistent outbreaks of rain will continue to affect parts of wales and england not just through that affect parts of wales and england notjust through that night—time but well on into saturday

, and fiow market was margaret thatcher, and now perversely we have the uk as the champion of leavingrce between ireland and britain. and now we are looking at the reimposition of that cost. even in those things that don't attract a tariff. this is very negative from her point of view. thank you very much indeed for joining us. more guests throughout the day. in a moment, the business news, first, the headlines. scotla nd business news, first, the headlines. scotland yard has been criticised for carrying out unlawful searches of the homes of suspects during its investigation into a vip paedophile ring which turned out not to exist. former conservative leadership candidate rory stewart has revealed he is leaving the party to run as an independent candidate for mayor of london. and the prime minister's chief adviser on europe is calling another round of talks in europe today aimed at breaking the brexit deadlock. hello, now the business news. the financial regulator says that insurance customers are overpaying about £1.2 billion a year for their home and car policies. the financial cond

can i gently say in relation to margaret thatcher that if she about that, you might have a word with the shadow chancellor. she talked about labour's record. can i remind her that because of labor's economic mismanagement, we saw female unemployment rise by over a quarter. on the outside, we are proud. womengher percentage of and records lower than the last labor government. >> order. i've am right in that she has had her six questions. >> there will be more. margot james. >> does the right honorable gentleman agree that legislation to establish a tough, independent regulator of internet companies and powers and challenges the automatic aght to anonymity online priority for the queen's speech. place withthe safest members of our society. and they put them at risk. >> is it a disgrace that the prime minister is not here? since he was elected in july, he has only 10 one prime minister's questions. mr. speaker, right now, the dealing in ar is briggs it fantasy. the government will not seek an extension. they will not obey their legal obligations. speaker, yet again, the prime minister i

he hosted everyone from ronald reagan to the dolly llama to as you can see here margaret thatcher.e are 1505 episodes of the show and were in the process of digitizing all of these shows and making them available online so people can enjoy and also use for scholarship. now we're looking at a rare photograph and this comes from the william collection. he's very interesting man who was at the office of strategic services and was one of the prosecutors and his job was to put in files of high-ranking nazis. he's actually the personal photograph album (inaudible) who was hitler's foreign minister and the picture show him signing the naughty certificate and then also those pictures you will find stalin. he looks very happy in this picture and is acquiring half of poland from this pact. it's very rare to see them all in one place and they were superstitious about how they were hunted by the circuit police. here it hoover we have a wonderful collection of the cold war and it's very interesting items during the period and it's a large oversight scrapbook that documents the life and exploits

to replace the privatised system to be introduced by margaret thatcher and it has never worked or beenbut this is a number of things being announced along with the withdrawal act and announced along with the withdrawal actand a announced along with the withdrawal act and a further 21 bills, including points —based immigration system, fast axis, environmental forms, and photographic identification polling stations.” thought they were going to take out photographs but apparently we have to turn up without picture. every photo i have ever taken for official documents, i look different so how are they going to get the right photograph for the right person!m you started from scratch, you probably would not choose the way we do things. you have this whole thing about... arejust do things. you have this whole thing about... are just turn do things. you have this whole thing about... arejust turn up, give my name 0!’ anyone about... arejust turn up, give my name or anyone else's about... arejust turn up, give my name 0!’ anyone else's name about... arejust turn up, give my name or anyone else'

thatcher would do that, oscar wilde is another matter. congresswoman katie hill conducted a lurid affair with one of our own staffers. now it looks like she may have paid her thousands in consulting fees to keep her quiet. and when it comes to nocturnal consulting, we turn to our chief after hours freeway consulting investigative reporter, trace gallagher. trace, this one is all yours. >> market, the allegation against democratic congress woman katie hill are piling up. the house ethics committee is investigating whether hale recently had an intimate relationship with her legislative director graeme kelly. katie hill denies the relationship with kelly but fully admits to being involved with her campaign staffer at 20 morgan desjardins. in fact, they were in a three-way relationship known as a throuple which came to light after "red state" published photos. it ended badly when katie hill moved from california to d.c. and let the others behind. but federal election commission records show that since april of this year, hills campaign paid m

. >> can i just gently say that if -- in relation to margaret thatcher if she wants to talk , about better treatment, she might have a word with the shadow chancellor. go back in time to assassinate her. that was not appropriate language on her side. she talked about labor's record. because of labour's economic mismanagement, we have seen unemployment rise by more than a quarter. we are proud -- female unemployment at record lows. i believe i am right in saying that the shadow home secretary has had her six questions. [jeering] >> margot james. >> does the right honorable gentlemen agree that legislation to establish a tough independent regulator of internet companies empowered to challenge the automatic right to anonymity online should be a priority for the queen speech? >> we want to make companies more responsible. especially for children. it also sets out measures to reinforce powers to issue fines if those companies put them at risk. >> it is a disgrace the prime minister is not here. since he was elected in july, he has only been to one prime minister's questions. quite simply, he is

i grew up under margaret thatcher. i looked up to the gipper ronald reagan as a hero.ut my life changed when i truly understood what my parents had lived through. because my father was a great athlete. he was on the national crew team for hungary when he was arrested by the communists and they never broke him. so he was a great bear of a man, he loved to swim, and on that day as i was sitting on the sand with my g.i. joe's he came out of the ocean, this amazing figure of a man, and i looked at him and i saw something i hadn't realized before. he had these lines on his ribs, these white lines. i knew he was far too young to be wrinkled on his wrists. so like a foolish child i asked him, hey, dad, what's that? without skipping a beat, no emotion, he responded, well, son, that's where the secret police bound my wrists together with wire behind my back so they could hang me from the eiling of the torture chamber. that's when my life changed forever. why? because from that sentence onward, i knew at a deep, deep is l in my soul that evil in the at evil exists hearts of men,

former aid to margaret thatcher saying johnson could be taking a page from the iron lady herself andr u.s. presidents to work the other side and close the deal. what do you make? >> well,, i do think that the prospect of bores johnson looking a lot better today and already you have seen several alicia seven or eight saying they are going to vote with the government in support of borst johnson's deal. johnson needs to basically flip about 19 labor mps over in order to secure the deal. and he is around halfway there already. and this is significant because, of course, in the 2016 referendum, about three to four million labor voters voted for brexit. 61% of labor party constituents actually went for brexit. labor party there is a very significant element of support for brexit. and so i think you could see enough labor mps switching sides here. crossing the political aisle and voting with the government. this is also has to be said a very good deal that boris has negotiated with the eu. it's far, far better than the deal negotiated by theresa may. >> neil: what you said about working wit

mandela well mandela was called a terrorist by the british government declared as such by margaret thatcher and her ministers was declared a criminal by many western diplomats and even intellectuals videos tell his support for his support for mandela who defected libya oh of course of course khadafi was very honest and transparent with us people who worked closely with him and he said this he said to us make no mistake we are being punished for what we did not just for libya but for what we did for africa and many other developing countries and around that we are paying the price for supporting in some mandela for supporting the black race for supporting real politics of revolution could duffy was happy to fight until his death he knew he had many ways out he chose not to go out he was offered ways out even by african leaders who visited him during the war but he said if he goes out the very ideas he fought for will die in his death. his ideas will live and i believe. the ideas and the principles and the broader acts he lead will live on and we come back with such power in the future becaus

deadline of a break to be 35 years to the day of the provisional brighton attempted murder margaret thatcher in the capital the tories were killed or injured and they keep the transitional media to get subscribe to a. match kaiser financial survival guide look what it does it you can convert it into that quite easily. to keep in mind. pleasure. or. just look. at us can ask a moment to laugh and ask for the last 70 and seeing and i'm interested they are the guides for who should commission. branches just shoot on disk in the. command. leachate mom. you know your new car so sit on the open much fame the mama is just back in there and i'm. thinking of getting a coupon the ones we got in here she was i didn't know it's still trapped in this tiny little wired punch we don't need a crate with him he will just. freaking out and he will want to spray him anywhere near and thousands of breeding dogs that caged in inhumane conditions on puppies i mean 67 years you know they've been locked up in a cage outside you see no protection from the weather the heat you know the courtier the rain the snow the f

after that killing in a berlin discotheque by what he thought was good after his agents and mrs thatcher in those days simply quietly said ok if donald trump wants to bomb iran as is former national security adviser john bolton rather did then they would fly from their bases in britain we worry about sovereignty and exit europe but we have these bases in britain that are entirely american well. basically shows we are some kind of a. carrier for the united states brazil is increasingly being seen as a proxy for u.s. foreign policy your client former president lula has been offered the chance of freedom by brazilian prosecutors. why do you think they've carried him why is your client preferred he has not taken it because there are strings attached what has been discovered since. his my view wrongful conviction is that the judge who is now mr bowles and rose minister of justice reward was in fact deeply involved in prosecuting the man he was actually trying and what is the merge from whistleblower things do emerge from whistleblowers are a lot of e-mails between the judge and the prosecutor

superior in the sense that it embodies as margaret thatcher said, a right and it is not suitable for all people at all times but everyone not to aspire to it. so i say i am a nationalist. i want to make it available to people, and a lot of experience with civil society of democratic society. i am a mild nationalist. >> >> visit our website@booktv.org and click on the "after words" tab. >> booktv is television for serious readers, all weekend every weekend. join us again next saturday at 8:00 eastern for the best in nonfiction books. .. >> congress returns to capitol hill today after a two-week recess with house committees working on impeachment inquiries against president trump, legislation to lower prescription drug costs, and curbing the outsourcing of u.s. jobs. the senate continues work on the president executive and judicial nominations including air force secretary barbara baird. watch live gavel to gavel coverage of the house on c-span and the senate live on c-span2, online at c-span.org or listen live on the grid using the free c-span radio app. >> former u.s. ambassador to t

the headline is about the rail franchise system, since its inception under margaret thatcher, it hasrailtrack, as it was, back into a network rail, the franchises that actually run the trains are still in private hands. what the prime minister has suggested is a model based on performance and reliability. it means nobody is going to argue with the idea of reliability. nobody is going to say i think my train is too punctual, and i find it disconcerting. one of these things that has been announced, along with the withdrawal agreement bill, of course. laws to ensure faster access to medicine. yasmin and i were discussing this earlier, photographic identity at polling stations. what is that about? i think we are the most watched population in the western world, what is this? it is not being discussed, we don't know why they are doing it, i hope there are lots of groups that stand up and mps that fight this. why should we be watched when we put our boat into a box?|j when we put our boat into a box?” think a lot of people would agree thatjust turning think a lot of people would agree that

now while speakers long have faced accusations of bias from — margaret thatcher always felt he was against all these accusations against him of bias. however, as far as i'm aware, that was the first time that a speaker has spoken out on an issue of such controversy. and we have now got a commons committee, quite an influential commons committee, which says it will look at the role of speaker. so there are potentially changes to come? indeed. as i say, you can trace it back to that date. because for the first time, we knew how the speaker felt about a controversial issue. and from that day onwards, every decision he made from the chair was seen through that lens. so as a result, it could change the speakership. and ironically, john bercow has always positioned himself as a champion of the backbenchers. however, if there is a written constitution or changes made to the standing orders to limit the powers of a speaker, then backbenchers might well find themselves less powerful in the future as a result of his actions. let's talk about something else which has blighted john bercow‘s time in th

the brits decided to get you out, they literally commandeered margaret thatcher's private plane, theyut of northern ireland. correct. but you had to take your wife and your kids. they were given, what, an hour or two to pack? 0ne suitcase. leave everything. what impact did that have on your family on your family? well, i remember coming in and saying to mary, "look, i've been doing something for the last number of years and i've been caught." and... were you honest? did you say mary, i have essentially lived a lie with you for these last nine years or whatever it was. and now, because of my lying, you and the kids have to get on this plane and you'll probably never see northern ireland again? well, over the years, i used to think, "i wonder, should i tell her?" and then i thought, "now, if i tell her and she has this information, if i'm ever caught, they'll shoot her too, so i'm not going to tell her." because there were people who left derry, informers, and their wives were able to return because they were seen to as not knowing very much about it. so i decided, "look, selfish as it

. >> can i just gently say that if -- in relation to margaret thatcher, that if she wants to talk about better treatment, she might have a word with the shadow chancellor, who talks about going back in time to assassinate her. that is not appropriate language on her side. can i remind her that labor once more debt, more borrowing and high taxes. we are tried. female employment at record lows. the gender pay gap at a record lower than under the lastlabour government. >> order. sayingve i'm right in that she has had her sixth question. >> margot james. >> does the right honorable gentlemen agree that legislation to establish a tough independent regulator of internet companies empowered to challenge the attic right to anonymity online should be a priority for free >> we want to make the u.k. to be the safest place to go online for our children and members of our society. our white paper set up plans to make companies more responsible. especially for children. it also sets out measures to reinforce fines for those that put them at risk. >> it is a disgrace the prime minister is not here. he

the very dinner but this had economic impact to help elect ronald reagan and before that margaret thatcher she wasn't elected she was appointed by it was with english-language countries i looked it up in france it did get attention in france. [speaking french] did i say that right? they had a little epidemic in france but then they elected mitterrand which was the socialist president of france so the narratives have a patriotic element and of identity. you could define your life as a story of it as a patriotic american. you repeat stories of americans or close countries like australia. so home prices. the other is the great depression. we are just coming out from the great recession named after the great depression is very much on her mind so starting with home prices a huge boom in home prices in the united states and also the uk and other english-speaking countries in the early 2000's so part of this around 2005 reaching the peak in 2006 and then faded away and we are living in the aftermath. what caused that? one thing now i can digitize text and phrases to see how common they were i've

margaret thatcher said "i want my money back," in the 1980s, it was all resolved in the very last minute britain leaving the eu is far too big a subject to be sort of solved at the last moment. i have a little item to show you here... i don't know if the camera can see that clearly. it doees show the impossibility of a solution. i've heard the word 'unworkable' used about boris johnson's latest proposal to the eu, and this is an unworkable mug. it has the name of brexit sort of broken through it, and you can't drink from it. this is not my position. it is just the way we are. it isjust a state we have reached. do you have one with the 'euro zone' written on it? that is a good point, because the euro zone is not in the most glorious place, as we know. that's why i think another referendum in this country to be held on whether you want to remain in the eu or not might go the old way... is this a gift to the programme or is this a gift to iain? the victoria and albert museum in london have found it so interesting as to have included it in their collection of current british art. along with

thatcher and reagan, whoever it was.en it away now because if you are the first year of gcse, you can say i did gcse and you are a lot younger than you are. anyway, i digress, but you know that when two leaders kick out all their advisors and their civil servants and even their press secretaries or whoever it might be, things are getting serious and you might actually get results. it's well worth them briefing that this was a private one—on—one meeting because it looks serious. it's not just it's notjust the british who believe that their political masters should not be let out on their own. they do say things which they cannot say in front of anyone else. they promised things. they promised things they cannot deliver. or they promised things that they will say something, like i've been in positions like this. you say something like i'm just telling you, ican do something like i'm just telling you, i can do that, but i can't take the blame for it. or don't push me on this one, because i really can't do it, but i could do

the biggest part of that, and the honourable lady wouldn't take my intervention on margaret thatcher,f that reduction by far was the move from coal to gas. the closure of the coal mines in this country was the singularly most divisive, bitter industrial dispute this country has ever had. and i say this with no relish, but what happened in the miners' strike, what happened in the ‘90s when the miners marched through central london, we didn't want that to happen, but it was a necessary policy to put through in the national interest. the idea that you canjump on a tube train or spray fake blood on government buildings and cut co2 emissions, it takes real action. a labour mp said ministers should be taking extinction rebellion‘s message more seriously. if they're worried about public support, they should stop suppressing extinction rebellion and the youth climate strike and start listening to them. make citizen assemblies. test the ideas and engage people in a positive way. my final message is stop the complacency, act ambitiously. the green mp said the government should set a more ambiti

the community but sense the rise of monetization and the rise of neo liberalism under reagan and thatcher in that period we have only one solution to every single problem and that is to print more money and that of course means exactly what we're talking about here is that the worse it gets those who are caught the arsonists are getting paid more and more to be arsonists the more rapid these liberal elites in america burn the constitution the ground the more money they make. and the worse it gets at the bottom that's really important to this next article and it's from huffington post the glass floor is keeping america's richest idiots at the top elites are finding more ways to ensure that their children never run out of chances to fail they talked to richard reeves a brookings institution researcher and author of dream hoarders how the american upper middle class is leaving everyone else in the dust why that is a problem and what to do about it and a lot of it is because it's it's getting more panics because it is way more horrible in the bottom 95 percent now than it was back in 1970 and

reagan thatcher so you had financial futures as in p. futures interest rate futures that was the beginning of this he took financialization he took credit which is supposed to help the real economy to turn that into the product that he turned that into the financialization of the economy with using these interest rates and now the interest rate protection that one would have if you are a bank and you want predictability where that rates going to be next year that is the underpinning for your entire portfolio of derivatives. like a farmer needs to guarantee prices for his crop right you need guaranteed interest rate for your profit your portfolio of derivatives which is what the product of the bank is if there is no way to value that because it goes in for interest rates are negative then effectively the value of the portfolio is 0 that's why that the flesh and story is so key because all the negative interest rates are deflationary as i've said they don't create inflation they don't create economic growth they don't create tax revenues t

mine another journalist and we are talking about the leaders from that era, reagan and bush and thatcher, these are people with huge personalities whether you agree with them on the policy matter, and i was comparing them to the leaders that was five or six years ago and it seemed like they were so different from the world has changed so much, so i started to review a little bit what happened with reagan and gorbachev more than what i knew and i discovered the summit which is a quite particular missed approach as we will see. >> you mentioned the personalities of world leaders which as we all know today can be extremely important in understanding or maybe compounding. but a lot of the book also mentions and describes sort of the politics at home and surprisingly not just in the united states, which is after all democracy but in the soviet union, you talk about gorbachev and the powers that be but also the desire and the need frankly to develop the economy and the soviet union and for reagan it was politics politics coming upg midterm election cycle and the promise that he had brought to

the brits decided to get you out, they literally commandeered margaret thatcher's private plane, theyou out of northern ireland. correct. but you had to take your wife and your kids and they were given what, an hour or two to pack? kids, leave everything. what impact did you have on yourfamily — might dig that have? i came in and i thought, i have been doing that... did you say mary, i have essentially lived a lie with you for these last nine years or whatever it was and now because of my lying, you and the kids have to get on this plane and you will probably never seen northern ireland again? welcome over the years, i thought, i wonder if i should tell her and then i thought ifi should tell her and then i thought if i tell and she has this information, if i am ever caught, they will shoot her too so i am never going to tell her because they we re never going to tell her because they were seven people who left derry, informers, and their wives were able to return because they were seen as not knowing very much about it. i thought i am not going to tell her. and that is why i didn't te