Good morning it s 7 o clock on Thursday the 30th of January that learns this morning the chancellor has become the most senior minister to throw his weight behind the h s 2 high speed rail line increasing the chances that it will be built about $200.00 Britons are still stuck in the Chinese city at the center of the coronavirus outbreak after their evacuation flight was delayed and the secretary general of the Commonwealth ladies government has been criticized for awarding a contract to a friend who s a fellow Labor peer the b.b.c. News read this morning but Diana speed the chancellor Surjit Javid has given his backing to the his 2 high speed rail line which is currently under review because of its ballooning costs senior ministers will discuss the scheme today with Dunning street promising a quick decision in its full form has to would link London with Birmingham and then on to Manchester and Leeds up political correspondent Jonathan Blake reports it may not officially be decision da
Ns and Charles Dickins But she argues that we have forgotten how much we owed Henry the 8 and his court and from the very center of the Abbey we ll be talking to Richard Harris the former Bishop of Oxford about Christianity in our times as it s been reflected through the writings of poets and novelists from Dostoyevsky to Elliot Samuel Beckett to Philip Pullman 1st however the Abbey itself may seem so massive and familiar as to be part of the landscape but it s also in some ways a lucky survivor the historian David Cameron Dines been editing a huge and beautiful new book on its history David we re standing together in the chapter house which is this extraordinary mediæval octagonal space with beautiful paintings all the remnants of beautiful paintings from medieval times now Westminster Abbey is the center of secular and political power in Britain and this chapter house explains why. This chapter house was built during the reign of Henry the 3rd in the middle of the 13th century Henr
Condition after he was set on fire during an argument with demonstrators a 2nd man was shot at close range by a policeman who claimed protesters were trying to seize his gun police say 2 boats with 31 people on board were intercepted off the Kent coast last night 6 boats have arrived in the past 4 days b.b.c. News and already have for the last post all winter and it sells the untold story of how a simple 18th century British army chief became one of the most famous pieces of music in the world I actually had had quite a restless night with my son who was 2 and a half and he had workin in the early hours a few times shouting for his daddy in August 2003 Rocco hopper to China was at home while her husband was serving with the British army in Basra Iraq I went downstairs and the time we had this of oh teletext the sea facts as they called it and the headline on that said the 3 British soldiers have been murdered and one injured and I d add a gut reaction that way I just knew it was mad b
James Merrill and Derek Walcott they wrote on subjects as varied as lesbian passion and nuclear threats some poems and some critical reviews enraged our readers and drove them to drop their subscription Speaking of which it s 10 o clock and you re tuned to either k n y o l p Fort Bragg or k m e c l p Ukiah or you re listening in some other way but but there s the id never continues Grace Shulman did we apologize for a poem we published we saw it as part of our job to provoke our readers a mission we took especially seriously in serving the magazine s absolute devotion to a free press we followed a path blazed by Henry James who in 1965 wrote a damning review of Walt Whitman s drum taps calling the great poem errant prose mistaken yes but it was James view at the time and it was never retracted apparently the magazine has abandoned this story tradition last month the magazine published a poem by Anders Carlson we the poet is white his poem how to draws on black vernacular following a v
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