than the soviets one well to discuss that i'm now joined by jason hicks anthropologist at the university of london and author of the divide a brief guide to global inequality and its solutions dr he called it's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time thanks for having me now you know i come from a country reach for seventy years had to run a massive experiment in their advocating inequality and many people here in russia believe that this fixation on inequality ultimately made the soviet system. incompatible with reality to what extent the opposite is true if you abandon any regulation and leave it all to the market forces can you have a harmonious well functioning society and i think it's quite clear that. you know extreme inequality has become a very serious problem around the world both within countries as well as between them and what's evidence is that it's creating not only economic crisis but also political ones in the sense of richer people are able to control political outcomes what is a very. poor people feel deeply disenfranchised and disaffected with with the government s

dr elaine fahey, reader in law at city, university of london joins me now. at has been leaked so far about this draft agreement and what are your thoughts? it looks like the idea of the continuity of customs arrangements is paramount. there is nothing ambiguous about what has been leaked from the eu side, entirely consistent with their effo rts entirely consistent with their efforts to maintain the single market. given what you have seen so far, all of the detail may well emerge as the day progresses, what do you think this pathway will look like? it will be a very bumpy road ahead, many who say we are not on—board. ahead, many who say we are not on-board. there are so many voices that have opposed what has been leaked, it seems there will be nobody satisfied or happy with the legal text which inevitably has to bea legal text which inevitably has to be a compromise to satisfy all of the different quarters at stake. you will see there was a legitimate concern in dublin and belfast but also in brussels about whether or not this will politically survive the ride

then the soviet one well to discuss that i'm now joined by jason hickey anthropologist at the university of london and author of the divide a brief guide to global inequality and its solutions dr he called it's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time thanks for having me now you know i come from a country reach for seventy years had the run the massive experiment in the rabbit kidding inequality and many people here in russia believe that this fixation on inequality ultimately made the soviet system. incompatible with reality to what extent the opposite is true if you abandon any regulation and leave it all to the market forces can you have a harmonious well functioning society and i think it's quite clear that. you know extreme inequality has become a very serious problem around the world both within countries as well as between them and what's evidence is that it's creating not only economic crisis. but also political ones in the sense of richer people are able to control political outcomes what usually. poor people feel deeply disenfranchised disaffected with with a government sys

food experts from a number of universities, including the university of london, are warning councils ine where potentials risks and potential disruptions lie and clarify the limits to stockpiling. according to the report, every form of brexit will affect the food system in some way, particularly a no—deal scenario. let's take a look at the travel situation now. it is good news if you are using the tube because currently all london underground lines are running a good service. the a13 starting to build into town from the goresbrook interchange, dagenham. westminster bridge remains closed northbound between a3036 lambeth palace road and a3211 victoria embankment for security installations. and in burrow, the 82 great dover st remains closed in both directions between long lane and cowbridge road because of water main repairs. now the weather with elizabeth rizzini. hello, good morning. today will probably be the nicest day of the week, weatherwise. certainly more pleasa nt week, weatherwise. certainly more pleasant today than it was this time yesterday morning. the wind is still fairly

successful than the soviets one well to discuss that i'm now joined by jason anthropologist at the university of london and author of the divide a brief guide to global inequality and his solutions dr he goes.

welcome back to worlds apart but jason haykel anthropologist at the university of london and author of the divide and a brief guide to global inequality and its solutions. before the break i think you sounded somewhat skeptical of the aids paradigm and. i also saw in some of your articles that you believe that these narrative is kind of exploitative of empathy and the the better angels of our nature so to say even road that it makes the takers seem like givers the granting them a kind of moral high ground i wonder if you personally encountered any pushback for saying that the do gooders are not as selfless as they would like to appear so i have a lot of sympathy for do gooders i wanted to be involved in the development of this for myself. and i think it's fantastic to have the sense of compassion that people have that leads them to try to try to help people who are suffering and so on but the important thing i want to emphasize here is. is that quite often the effort as mr rock to in the sense that it fails to address the actual structural driver as of the concerns that that are at sta

hong bo is professor in financial economics at soas university of london. welcome to the programme. t the stage and explain what's going on in terms of what is at stake, what's the most likely outcome of this in terms of the trade war between these nations, do you think it will be resolved? do you think it will escalate some of these tensions? will there be a cessation of hostilities? this is the first time for the two presidents to meet and i think this isa presidents to meet and i think this is a very important invent in terms of the whole development but i think iam not of the whole development but i think i am not expecting any significant outcome out of this meeting. but i think the conflict will be coming down a little. how disappointing do you think the asia—pacific economic cooperation summit was because for the first time we did not get a joint communique and one words from that summit, in fact it was out and out wall wasn't it? yeah but that was the first time they did not reach that agreement and they did not publish a formal official report. people are worried about the f

than the soviet one well to discuss that i'm now joined by jason hicks anthropologist at the university of london and author of the divide a brief guide to global inequality and its solutions dr he called it's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time thanks for having me now you know i come from a country reach for seventy years had the run the massive experiment in their advocating inequality and many people here in russia believe that this fixation on inequality ultimately made the soviet system. incompatible with reality to what extent the opposite is true if you abandon any regulation and leave it all to the market forces can you have a harmonious well functioning society and i think it's quite clear that. you know extreme inequality has become a very serious problem around the world both within countries as well as between them and what evidence is that it's creating not only economic crisis. but also political ones in the sense of richer people are able to control political outcomes . poor people feel deeply disenfranchised and disaffected with the government system so i think

. >> we have kate williams with us, a lecturer from the university of london specializing in history.ce. that means we are exactly 100 years and 30 minutes after the official time date of the armistice, the end of the fighting of world war i. explain to us -- explain to us the moments that led up to that moment. what was it like at 10:00 a.m. and what was it like at 11:01? >> it's an incredible story. so the actual agreement, the armistice itself, was signed at 5:00 a.m. paris time between the germans and the allies, and then during that period after that there was getting the news out to the people across the world and the news did go out very slowly to people on the western front. but actually the fighting continued between 5:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. 100 years ago. the last soldier to be killed, he was an american soldier, he was killed at 10:59, one minute before the armistice took effect. there was a british soldier, canadian soldier killed at 10:58 by german snipers. the fighting did continue up to the moment of 11:00 a.m. then the guns, the bombs, everything fell silent and there

he wrote all the songs and peter is now a professor of literature at the university of london and ourppeals. >> stephen: wow, you've achieved nothing compared to them. >> they do real things. >> stephen: actual culture, the law. >> i know. >> stephen: wow! it's hard to get together to rehearse because everybody's all over the place. >> stephen: but you, are is my understanding. >> somebody discovered road kill a few years ago, a real record label and they put it out, captured tracks. >> stephen: is that what this is? >> no, that's the follow-up album we recorded. >> stephen: is this an exclusive? >> yes,ths an exclusive for this theater. >> stephen: what's this called? >> it's called "this is capital punishment" and it's our follow-up album. >> stephen: drumming out time inside of me, hot love, grain illuminate and shannon rose. >> and i would say hot love is probably going to be the single. >> stephen: again, you played what on this? >> drums. and it drops black friday. >> stephen: awesome. awesome. there are going to be people rushing the pictures o, breaking down the stores. >> we

deputy chief of mission in yemen in oxford we have helen lackner associate researcher at the london middle east school of so us that's a university of london and in london we have elizabeth kandel senior research fellow at pembroke college university of oxford welcome to you all in the bill can i come to you first to ask for what is behind what appears to be a reengagement on the part of the u.s. administration with the war in yemen. i think and it were it's congressional pressure on the administration which had been mounting for a couple of years before all of this and it spread the word the victory off of the democrats in the midterm elections and unfortunately the murder off question of g. also had a speeding up effect also the pressure. so that it's not just longer us but it's the media it's civil society and. from the administration as point of view what they would like to do is save their nation ship were in saudi arabia and avoided the congressional pressure in january which could do is solved in the same ship an all military assistance to solve any via our foregone of then jetted. there's a personal motive as well which i

deputy chief of mission in yemen in oxford we have helen laettner associate researcher at the london middle east school of so us that's a university of london and in london we have elizabeth kandel senior research fellow pembroke college university of oxford welcome to you all now bill can i come to you first to ask for what is behind what appears to be a reengagement on the part of the us administration with the war in yemen. i think in a word it's congressional a pressure on the administration which had been mounting for a couple of years before this and it spread the word the victory off of the democrats in the midterm elections and unfortunately the murder off question of g. also had a speeding up effect also the pressure. so that it's not just longer us but it's the media it's civil society and. from that ministrations point of view what they would like to do is save the nation ship were in saudi arabia and avoided the congressional pressure in january which could do is solved in the same ship an all military assistance to solve any via our foregone of then jetted. there's a personal motive as well which is to save m.b.'s ham

previous academics include university of london research fellow at king's college cambridge and a postdoctoral associate at princeton. he is also public commentary and foreign affairs the nation their times the "washington post" and all swear and i believe he is a forthcoming book in the works so you might all be getting a sneak preview. >> many thanks for inviting me here and thank you all the more now that i have had the opportunity to read professor steven walt's new book. "the hell of good intentions" demands wide reading and serious consideration. he delivers as you have heard a brazen challenge to american foreign policy in the past quarter century and if that weren't enough people and institutions that have shaped that foreign-policy. the book focuses our attention on the 1990s as a pivotal decade. he argues american foreign-policy went are right. it goes further back than the war and terror which many citizens might single out. on the other hand nearly as far back as 1945 which experts has invoked as they rally to defend what they have called the post-war international order. professor

joined by my guest ahmed with the into around he's a professor of political science at the university of tehran in london we have jonathan steele he's an international affairs commentator and in leeds we have shockey he is a senior lecturer in middle east politics at the university of bradford all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect.

that one of the theater directors basically started suddenly to change the play so at the university of london performance, you have the impression they're going to marry at the end. then george bernard shaw went ballistic. he wrote the special essay why they could not marry. they said listen, the most important about the girl is that when she start to behave, she learn to behave like a high society girl, she wanted to be treated like this. because of trying to insist on her dignity, she cannot marry the teacher. and this was quite interesting and i tackled for a long time the problem of kind of a different type of discourse about imitation, why some of the new democracies were trying basically to take different forms and solutions. it was perceived as basically that maturing some of the new democracies were trying to insist on their distinctive nature. what happened since 2010, 2015, and i don't know if it started very much in central europe with elections in hungary and then of course with 2015 elections in poland is that people who were sitting in the audience watch g watching, trying to de

he's a professor of political science at the university of tehran in london we have jonathan steele he's an international affairs commentator and in leeds we have seen shah he he is a senior lecturer in middle east politics at the university of bradford all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciated jonathan let me go to you first in london how do you react to the liberal media's treatment of donald trump these of his statements regarding the crown prince the murder of shogi and yemen and i guess also iran go ahead jonathan . wells tracking him for not doing enough to cut relations with saudi arabia or in some way to punish the crown prince mohammed bin some man for his apparent involvement in this a turntable. but i mean there's an element of hypocrisy because. the u.s. is hard to relate with saudi arabia for years and they've done some terrible things the fact is a home invasion of yemen was sort of would have been a good smushed more important than the motive. for cutting down on relations but instead of that they are

i'm joined by my guest with the into an he's a professor of political science at the university of tehran in london we have jonathan steele he's an international affairs commentator and in leeds we have seen shah he he is a senior lecturer in middle east politics at the university of bradford all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciated jonathan let me go to you first in london how do you react to the liberal media's treatment of donald trump these of his statements regarding the crown prince the murder of shogi and yemen and i guess also iran go ahead jonathan . attacking him for not doing enough to cut relations with saudi arabia or in some way to punish the crown prince mohammed bin some. for his apparent involvement in this a turtle affair but i mean there's an element of hypocrisy because the us is hundred . years and they've done some terrible things the fact is a home invasion of yemen was would have been a good much more important than the murder of. a foreigner cutting down on relations but instead of that they're actual

welcome back to worlds apart with me call murawski anthropologist of architecture at university college london mr murawski there are many people here in russia who can nag these new wave of our been improvements to the protests of two thousand and eleven two thousand and twelve in moscow and other big russian cities when the urban middle class took to the streets to protest against the results of the parliamentary elections as well as vladimir putin's intention to run for yet another term do you think in terms of political capital responding to those protests with increased. spending didn't pay they didn't pay off politically i mean i think. you know this is this is a point of view that you hear repeated a lot both in city of u.k. or american media but also i've heard it repeated many times in moscow by by my sort of into lucky to is that what's happening is a direct response to that question and there are these kinds of things i think there may be some some some some truth to to to the fact that this was a kind of conscious response. bed again it's not all that there is to it there was a mome

well to discuss that i'm now joined by me col murawski anthropologist of architecture at university college london mr moore afghan's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time thanks for second interest in my work now you have indeed a very interesting field of study researching buildings bits been architecture city environment and politics in the context of post communist eastern europe what do you make of russia particularly moscow in this regard yeah i mean there's certainly a lot of politics in architecture and in planning in moscow today the been planning also the sort of the construction in the in the planning of public spaces has been elevated more and more into a kind of priority issue and as you said quite. interesting in the beginning there is also there's also a sort of there's a sort of a new wave of kind of social engineering as if there's a new wave. of a kind of desire that you can that you can engineer it's a second type of consciousness or a certain type of human being through architecture you know i'm a big fan of a soviet era memoirs and almost all foreign there is at

he suffers the greatest handicap of having been educated at oxford and holds a phd in philosophy from the university college london. a recent review called him one of only three or four are genuine intellectuals on the bench in the house of commons. imagine how one might it would be in the house of representatives. [laughter] >> it's an honor and a privilege to welcome jesse norman. [applause] thank you very much indeed for that wonderful introduction. i can't tell you how delighted i am to be here to talk about this great fellow and i should say in picking off and i do it as someone that is interested in ideas and the impact tha that te have on our lives today. he is a treasure trove of brilliant thinking even today with many of the difficult problems that we see in our world. we say that smith is famous as described in the title of this book is also someone that by far is the most influential economist who's ever lived. so, if you look at the citations that have been given the influence you can see the numbers given with milton friedman, marks and the best of them and smith won on the citation level that was hir

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british life sentence for spying in the united arab emirates as friends of matthew hedges is university and government leaders in london all protest his innocence is it all a major misunderstanding or evidence of a launch a problem of academic freedom in the emirates this is inside story. oh they're welcome to the program. matthew hedges has spent the last seven months in prison in the u.s. now he faces the prospect of staying there for the university graduate student who was given a life sentence on wednesday for spying say he made a full confession his family says the document was an arabic and he didn't understand it the government leaders in abu dhabi say they're considering a request from his wife for clemency like the. the us a country with an independent judiciary the government does not dictate their dicks to the court. matthew hedges was not convicted after a five minute short trial as some have reported over the course of one month three judges evaluated compelling evidence in three hearings they reached their conclusion after a full and proper process this was an extremely serious case we live in a dangerous

think well to discuss that i'm now joined by may call murawski anthropologist of architecture at university college london mr morris give good to talk to you thank you very much for your time and interest in my work now you have indeed a very interesting field of study in researching buildings bits been architecture city environment and politics in the. post communist eastern europe what do you make of russia and particularly moscow in this regard yeah i mean there's certainly a lot of politics in architecture and in planning in moscow today the been planning also the sort of the construction in the in the planning of public spaces has been elevated more and more into a kind of priority issue and as you said quote i accurately interesting in the beginning there is also there's also a sort of there's a sort of a new wave of kind of social engineering as if there's a new wave of sort of of a kind of desire that you can they you can engineer it's a second type of consciousness or a certain type of.

think the story of those transactions are behind us there's been great stories put out by university of londont go through different eras. early on it was geeks, then sin activities, now it's legitimate enterprises. >> they're shot just buying fake i.d.s. >> no. >> what do you think has led to the downturn in terms of the price of bitcoin and to the extent you're still bullish -- >> i am. >> what will lead from a philosophical, psychological change in the marketplace that will lead it back up again >> if we go back to december of last year when we peaked at 20,000, that was an overheating market we had seven per per periods wh bitcoin more than doubled in a month. >> do we know if it's the same investors who come back or always a new group do they wash each other out? that will be an important component to this, given there was a lot of volume on a relative basis back when we were talking about 20,000 if you have a whole generation of investors washed out of this who say this was too painful for me, i can't do this again. this is beanie babies or whatever it is -- >> yeah. >> -- who will come

think well to discuss that i'm now joined by may call murawski anthropologist of architecture at university college london mr morris gives good to talk to you thank you very much for your time thanks to my work now you have indeed a very interesting field of study in researching buildings bits been architecture city environment and politics in the context of post communist eastern europe what do you make of russia particularly moscow in this regard. yeah i mean the a lot of politics in architecture and planning in moscow today. been planning also the sort of the construction in the in the planning of public spaces has been elevated more and more into a kind of priority issue. interesting at the beginning there is a sort of there's a sort of a new wave of kind of social engineering as if there's a new wave. of a kind of design that you can do you can engineer it's a certain type of consciousness or a certain type of human being through architecture you know i'm a big fan of a soviet era memoirs and almost all foreign there is at that time describe moscow as a gray gloomy a drab and welcoming city which sho

is a very wide ranging report produced by 27 institutions from lots of different areas, the university of londonare talking about in 2050, by the end of the century. absolutely it is going to get worse and all of our projections suggest we are in for a rough ride, but we are seeing these health impacts today. so what are the health impacts, and who is affected? everyone is affected, no one is immune, none of the patients that anyone in the nhs would treat would be immune to the health impacts of climate change. they range from the extremes climate change. they range from the extre m es of climate change. they range from the extremes of heat that you have been talking about, the labour impacts that come from that, the kidney disease that comes from extremes of heat, the exacerbation of congestive heart failure. but on the other hand, as you have pointed out, it is actually a bit stormy outside. we expect to see stronger floods and stronger extremes of weather as a result of climate change as well, the spread of infectious disease. the health impacts really touch on all of the good foundations of

think well to discuss that i'm now joined by may call murawski anthropologist of architecture at university college london mr moore ask it's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time and interest in my work now you have indeed a very interesting field of study in researching buildings bits been architecture city environment and politics in the context of post communist eastern europe what do you make of russia particularly moscow in this regard yeah i mean the. this certainly a lot of politics in architecture and in planning in moscow today the been planning also the sort of the construction in the in the planning of public spaces has been elevated more and more into a kind of priority issue and as you said quite accurately and interesting at the beginning there is also there's also a sort of there's.

university college london. i did not have any friends or family knowledge of the london property market and what to expect. turned me down even though my university offered her as a guarantor. i ended up on the doorstep of letting agency who said you have room to you in a flat sharing west london but it is £200 in order to view it. the reasons they used was that it was for preserving the property. if i did not pay this fee and they showed it to me someone might call in a bucket, basically take it from under my nose. they claim they have a lot of demand that they need to charge for the viewings. did you instantly say yes or did it concern you?m did concern me. they told me up front it was nonrefundable. they quickly reassured me and said if i did take the room it would be deducted from any fees or deposit i would have to pay. did you take the room? yes, i did take the room. i was really overwhelmed by that point. i've just found london was really overwhelmed by that point. i'vejust found london huge. just getting around, it took awhile to get to know london very well. yes, i was desperate to have a roof ove

studio mark owen jones assistant professor of middle east studies at how many university he was formerly at university and is a friend of mine he hedges in london them or try to harvey's intelligence analysts and writes on security issues and joining us from kuala lumpur via skype right a sterling founder and c.e.o. of detained in dubai if i wore welcome to all of you mark we're talking here about a thirty one year old student on a two week research trip what was matthew hedges doing in the u.a.e. not you had just like many ph d. students was taking a short trip away from durham university to conduct interviews and this is a very common practice amongst ph d. students during political science or security studies he would have had ethical approval from durham university to carry out the strip and within that process is the determination that what matthew is doing is is is kosher on a. broad and above all things safe and secure so that's what matthew would have been doing arranging interviews with key people who would have been able to answer his approved research question what were his research questions what was the nature of the research speci

the nation's first openly gay man to be elected governor and corsa professor of political science it university college london he joins us live from bangkok we appreciate your time very much so there's been some results that are still been coming in overnight and it seems that democrats in the senate and it will picked up a senate seat in nevada and then also one governor's races in michigan wisconsin and pennsylvania those are states that donald trump won in two thousand and sixteen very narrowly but he did win what are these results tell you. well i think there are very bad news for the president and very good news for the democrats now of course there are going to be things that republicans are happy about in particular you know a few states like missouri and indiana where they they won key victories in florida as well but overall this is the picture the democrats took back the house which means they're going to have a real check on donald trump's presidency that's a very big deal and the second very big deal is that the forecast look like the democrats are going to win the national popular vote in other w

university of saint andrews scotland, and the university of north carolina chapel hill. as well as graduate studies in the department of war studies, king's college university in london. >> professor carpenter retired from the u.s. navy with the rank of captain after 30 years service, both active duty and reserve. attendees will remember that he talked to us just two years ago, on rule britannia, lives of the maritime empires. so, in a way this is a continuation i guess. in june 2009, he published resurrection of antimony, the first in a series of world war ii action-adventure historical novels, centered on a retired royal navy intelligence officer, brought back into the field to confront [null] germany. interesting. ladies and gentlemen, doctor stanley carpenter. >> [ applause ] >> thank you bob, and let me say it is a pleasure and an honor to be back, always a pleasure and thrill to be here. making one quick remark here, before we get started. a question earlier, here we are, a question earlier on the flag here, going back to the first one there, there we are. that actually is the imperial russian flag and the question was, why is it over here with the other central po

from stanford university after spending his senior year at the london school of economics.then attended harvard law school, where he earned his degree in 1961. during the 1960s and '70s, justice kennedy worked in private practice in california and was a professor of constitutional law at the university of the pacific.

let's talk to heatherjones, professor of modern and contemporary european history from university college london focusing on paris because 100 yea rs are focusing on paris because 100 years ago, the armistice was about to happen. just bring a picture of how the war was coming to an end. the war was not expected to end so suddenly at the end of 1918. the germans had exhausted themselves with their offences and counter offences in the summer but the british and french approach the german army back and it started to colla pse german army back and it started to collapse would surrender in large numbers and that's why as we get to the armistice, the military command revise the german army was about to collapse. and for the french this is a particularly important moment. they lost 1.3 million men in this conflict, a huge number, they are very much trying to push the germans back of french territory. they have been invaded and their country has been invaded and their country has been partially occupied for over four years. there is a real sense of what is at stake for france, that they can find a way t

in political philosophy and isis the catholic university of vendee in new york we have george samuel he is a fellow at the global policy institute of london and author of bombs for peace and an i'll burn we have rockwell he is a political commentator and editor of lou rockwell dot com all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate john let me go to you first but i'd like to quote i guess the spot aspiring sun king of europe.

london. >>> there is growing anger at the university of maryland tonight where the board of regents voted to reinstate the head football coach, five months after the death of a player after practice. that decision is not sitting well with some of his players. and nbc's tom costello is in college park, maryland with more tonight. >> reporter: back on the practice field today, maryland football coach dj durkin, five months after lineman jordan mcnair overheated, collapsed, and died. today mcnair's family called it a personal affront. >> it feels like a total slap in the face, total lack of regard for no accountability for losing my son's life. >> reporter: the university of maryland suspended durkin after learning the staff took no steps to save mcnair's life. now it's the university president who's out. credited with building the university of maryland's reputation while bringing it into the big 10. >> this will be my last year as president of the university of maryland. >> reporter: meanwhile, several players walked out of a team meeting when coach durkin returned, one tweeting, every saturd

university of n.d. in new york we have. samuel e. is a fellow at the global policy institute of london and author of bombs for peace and i'll burn we have rockwell he is a political commentator and editor of lew rockwell dot com all right gentlemen crosstalk was in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate john let me go to you first but i'd like to quote i guess the spot aspiring sun king of europe there are no other well known as the president of france mccrone he said this patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism national him is a betrayal of patriotism and i'd also like to throw in another quote that he said earlier this year when he was a candidate which absolutely stunned me still does quote as candidate there is no such thing as french culture what is this man talking about john or whenever i hear my call i'm always reminded of oscar wilde's remark about someone who said.