it is a look back at the big events of westminster over the last few months. coming up, it is the economy. as britain's debt goes up and up, they wonder how they can balance the books. they had used money to build the houses after months of scandal. . . >> but i have to say, the purpose of asking this question must be either he's got policy that he wishes to push forward -- so we can do better. or he's simply talking down britain. >> he normally does a listing out and france and germany went into recession at same time as britain yet they came out before. can the prime minister answer this, given that those countries are in growth and we are not in growth, can he tell us what he meant, and i quote, that we are leading the rest of the world from recession. >> mr. speaker, not one policy -- we have taken action to restructure the banks and nationalize and we have taken action for the fiscal stimulus, opposed by the party. we have taken action to keep unemployment down. they have been wrong on the recession, they will be wrong on the recovery. mr. speaker, the vo

you are listening to the westminster townhall forum broadcast live from westminster presbyterian church in downtown minneapolis. i am the senior minister of the westminster presbyterian church, and moderator of the four. our speaker today is theologian and author, harvey cox. while the ushers collect questions from in house audience at westminster, i would like to invite you to join us for our next forum in two weeks on thursday, november 19, when activist and entrepreneur sarah chase will offer an in depth look inside afghanistan. further information is available online at westminster townhall forum.org. that's one word, westminster townhall forum.org. and now harvey cox, if you would return to the pulpit, i will present questions from our audience. professor cox, in your book you describe and name three great ages of religion. and i wonder if you might apply those -- named as an discuss those busy but apply them to other faith traditions. as well as christianity. >> i make a distinction in the future of faith between belief and faith. i think it's a very important distinction to make.

come inside parliament's central lobby to look at another story that continues to cast a shadow of westminster -- expenses. some came to apologize for claims they made. back in march, before the "daily telegraph" listed the expenses and allowances, jackie smith found her finances on the front pages. there were complaints she had wrongly designated a home in london belonging to her sister as her primary residence. an inquiry was launched, the complaints were upheld and she launched an apology. >> i thought an perceived -- and received written advice that supported my main home designation. indeed, i spent more nights in london than in redwich. i have never slipped my designation and i only one home. there is no evidence the taxpayer would be worse or better off if i made a different designation. >> another former minister apologized after being forced to pay 13,000 pounds in second home allowances. he said his second home -- he claimed a second home lived in by his parents. he came to apologize after the committee determine head claimed on the house after he married and moved out. sir christoph

one other story dominated here in westminster, the situation in afghanistan. gordon brown said he'd be prepared to deploy more troops if three conditions were met, that military equipment was adequate, that other countries were repaired to deploy more forces and that the afghan army was stronger. gordon brown and another leader paid visits to troops in afghan strap. he me -- brown pledge master's degree money to detect inch e. d's. he ademunsed he'd send more troops to afghanistan. >> faced with a terrorist threlt, some of our most effective strategy is to defend britain within our own borders. some asked why british troops are in afghanistan at all if terrorists are in yemen and so maul lee and even internet chat rooms. but as long as afghanistan is the epicenter of global terrorism, it is the government's judgment we must address the terrorist threat at its source. as long as 3/4 of the most serious terrorist plots against britain have ties to the pakistan-afghanistan border areas, we should be failing our duty if we did not to address the problem where it s

it was acquired by kennedy's secretary and his wife near westminster, but england.t is 8 feet high when they arrived from their home in england. here they are 11 feet high. the upper and lower portions were painted in. " from 1948 until 1952, blair house became a president's home. harry truman and his family moved there because the white house was under renovation. in his biography, david wrote about'the presidents temporary quarters. "the house itself was not only nothing very grand but a bit dowdy. but not everybody felt that sway. margaret truman remembers it this way in her biography. "i fell in love with a place at the moment i walked into a. every room, was held little masterpieces of architecture and decoration. almost every piece of furniture was a rare antique from 18th- century america or from france. crystal chandeliers and rugs. magnificent mirrors bedoubled the beauty of the drawing rooms. it was a charming." >> this house has an unbelievable history of great moments in history, moments of queerer wars were discussed and committed to and peace movements

douglas dillon and his wife near westminster, england.nels were only eight feet high when they arrived from their home in england. here our ceilings were 11 feet high in that room, so the upper portion and lower portion were painted in. >> from 1948 to 1952, blair house became a president's home. harry truman and his family moved there because the white house was under renovation. in his biography on truman, david mccullough wrote about the president's temporary quarters. "the house itself, even with the quick cosmetics applied the year before, was not only nothing very grand, but a bit dowdy. it creeked and groaned, trembled noticeably when streetcars passed by outside. its dark old cellar was full of rats, as was well known by the seet hated ever to go down there. of all the presidents they had known, some of the secret servicemen would later say, only harry truman would have been willing to live in the place." but not everyone felt that way. margaret truman remembered it this way in her biography. "i fell in love with the place the mom

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eight is westminster bridge but nobody was attempting to fly a plane beneath that. he was known as the-- for two reasons one that he was a bit mad and secondly he was a major. he had been-- [laughter] he had been a fighter pilot ace during the first world war and he flew under every bridge in london. britain has always had esteemed eccentrics though he was not even prosecuted until after the second world war but hill in the 1930's heard about the exploits of the mat bridge your? yes, the man on the right here. you will all recognize him. his name is it tells hitler and he caught a lot of trouble before the second world war. christopher troopers the men on the left and there are a couple of the bull gentleman acer zen between the two, so after being invited over to germany and talking to the fear for a couple of hours in munich, as soon as he got back, christopher draper was after he would kindly spy for german intelligence. and he said absolutely fine. stopping only to ask mi5 if it would be in fact absolutely fine and they said it would be absolutely fine and that

. >> how did the pre budget report go outside westminster? i asked norma smith. >> a lot of concern in the markets as to whether it has gone far enough to put us on the path to the and off the deficit. the basic argument comes down to timing. when you look at the arguments made by different parties about what they want to implement, liberal democrats have something like twelve billion cuts which overshadows the tories. we have a difference in timing. what we find is the conservatives say we have got to start now, start paying back money now because if we don't payback the deficit we will never get economic growth. the liberal democrats argue you cannot pay off the deficit until you get economic growth. a lot of people will argue that is the way the government says let's pay off until after the general election. the general election was a few months ago. it is a character of cuts. the governments argued this is down and it would be reckless to try to cut spending down. >> if this really shows the dividing line between the party's leading up to

it was acquired by kennedy's secretary and his wife near westminster, but england.t is 8 feet high when they arrived from their home in england. here they are 11 feet high. the upper and lower portions were painted in. " from 1948 until 1952, blair house became a president's home. harry truman and his family moved there because the white house was under renovation. in his biography, david wrote about'the presidents temporary quarters. "the house itself was not only nothing very grand but a bit dowdy. but not everybody felt that sway. margaret truman remembers it this way in her biography. "i fell in love with a place at the moment i walked into a. every room, was held little masterpieces of architecture and decoration. almost every piece of furniture was a rare antique from 18th- century america or from france. crystal chandeliers and rugs. magnificent mirrors bedoubled the beauty of the drawing rooms. it was a charming." >> this house has an unbelievable history of great moments in history, moments of queerer wars were discussed and committed to and peace movements

host: next is leo, westminster, calif., democrats line.d to talk about two things, and one of -- when you get the republican line, i think if you go back and check your records and listen to the calls the way they come in, the republicans are the bottom of the barrel as far as i'm concerned with their language towards the people who are guests on this show and even the moderators. i feel there should be no reason that they come on here and preach to us about abortion or anything else. they should be talking politics. this is not the kind of show. the other thing is, is that the posts that are on there should put the party on there. you do a great job, like another -- and number of you do, but sculley never puts it on there. our politicians should know who we are and what we are trying to say. another thing is possible, maybe the age of the caller would help. i appreciate you listening to me. these clowns calling and are strictly road and they talk all this garbage, they should be cut off, it is not right. thank you there are much. host: ne

douglas dillon and his wife near westminster, england. eight feet high when they arrived from their home in england. here our ceilings were 11 feet high in that room, so the upper portion and lower portion were painted in. >> from 1948 to 1952, blair house became a president's home. harry truman and his family moved there because the white house was under renovation. in his biography on truman, david mccullough wrote about the president's temporary quarters. "the house itself, even with the quick cosmetics applied the year before, was not only nothing very grand, but a bit dowdy. it creeked and groaned, trembled noticeably when streetcars passed by outside. its dark old cellar was full of rats, as was well known by the seetervice men who hated ever to go down there. of all the presidents they had known, some of the secret servicemen would later say, only harry truman would have been willing to live in the place." but not everyone felt that way. margaret truman remembered it this way in her biography. "i fell in love with the place the mom

the case was mendez versus westminster, which desegregated schools in california and closed down mexicanools. mendez was the first federal law successfully challenged latino students segregation. and it was an important precedent for the brown decision. in mendez, the court held that separate but equal schools were inadequate and that a paramount requisite in the american system of public education is social equality. it must be open to all children by unified school association regardless of lineage. brown versus board of education held in 1954 that in the field of public education, the doctrine of separate but equal has no place. however, this specific recognition that brown's doctrine apply to latino school segregation did not reach the federal court until almost three days after the mendez and brown decision. independent school districts in 1970 and keys versus school district number one in 1973. the rulings in both cases finally recognized that latinos are protected under the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment. unfortunately, even after those rulings, latino student civil