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dateline london. hello and welcome to the programme that brings together international correspondents, some of the uks leading commentators and those who file their stories for the folks back home under the headline dateline london. this week — lobbying in all its forms. lobbying against and for the royalfamily, lobbying to liberate a woman imprisoned in iran, and whether those who lobby on behalf of repressive governments around the world are sufficiently regulated in the uk. joinin...

dateline london. hello and welcome to the programme that brings together international correspondents, some of the uks leading commentators and those who file their stories for the folks back home under the headline dateline london. this week — lobbying in all its forms. lobbying against and for the royalfamily, lobbying to liberate a woman imprisoned in iran, and whether those who lobby on behalf of repressive governments around the world are sufficiently regulated in the uk. joinin...

hello and welcome to the programme that brings together international correspondents, some of the uks leading commentators and those who file their stories for the folks back home under the headline dateline london. this week — lobbying in all its forms. lobbying against and for the royal family, lobbying to liberate a woman imprisoned in iran, and whether those who lobby on behalf of repressive governments around the world are sufficiently regulated in the uk. joining us for datelin...

newsnight programme. which means he is up when the uk sleeps making sure national news in the us as well reported in the uk is sleeping his probably find a felt stories here to, so he never rests. sunday was commonwealth day — the annual celebration of an institution created to maintain links which in the past were the result of exploration, colonisation and conquest. queen elizabeth, its head since august 1952, may see it as proof that empire has given way to equality. yet hours lat...

Comment: 58 years ago today, John F Kennedy, the United States of America's first and last Catholic president, was assassinated in broad daylight in Dallas, Texas. Most people don't need convincing that he wasn't killed by a lone gunman who 'just...

Magazine of the american idea. and so as you note correctly, we dont think its 1861 right now. we dont even think its the 1850s, but something has gone off the rails here. to acknowledge that is not to exacerbate it. to acknowledge it is to actually begin to deal with the underlying causes as i argue in the editors note this is bigger than donald trump. donald trump is a symptom of a larger issue, of american disuniting, mutual contempt thats replaced mutual respect, the idea that we share a com...

Common purpose in american life, to sort of ask what is the american idea? so we have a long history and kind of a mandate from history to explore these questions. now, none of us is saying that this period right now resembles the 1850s because we know what happened in the 1860s, obviously. but, there does seem to be this kind of split, this kind of mutual contempt. jim mattis famously says that, you know, americans seem to be losing affection for one another. and this undergirds a lot of things...

Even if they dont agree with democrats or anything. and this speech writer says this is bigger than any one policy because if republicans retain control of the house in november, trump will have proved the electoral value of racial and ethnic stereotyping. that will make things even worse than they are today. he argues, quote, the gop will be fully committed to a 2020 campaign conducted in the spirit of george wallace, a campaign of racial division, urban, rural division and party division that ...