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Friday, 22 January 2021, 4:18 pm Twenty prominent personalities, globally renowned for their intellectual leadership in economic and social fields, will form the second United Nations High-level Advisory Board (HLAB) on Economic and Social Affairs, the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) announced today. Over the next two years, the Board will strengthen the United Nations thought leadership on sustainable development and reinforce its impact on policies at every level – f...

Tel: +44 (0)1937 546546 How economy, society and government can work together to build a more optimistic future. This is an online event. Bookers will be sent a link in advance giving access and will be able to watch at any time for 48 hours after the start time. Even before the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, capitalism was stuck. It had no answers to a host of problems, including disease, inequality, the digital divide and, perhaps most blatantly, the environmental crisis. Mariana Mazzucato, one o...

The american public can see whats going on and hear it from mueller himself and i think that might be a good strategy for the democrats going forward. however, there are people saying we need more evidence, we need the unredacted mueller report, the evidence. so were going to have to wait and see how things progress. this is a big week for the democrats. >> if youre robert mueller, how do you balance this. we believe him when he comes up and says im not going to say anything other than what i wr...

Distortment of the actual report, having mueller air what the contents are would serve a great public value. again, it may not turn out to be mueller, but right now that is their preference to still have mueller come to the hill for a public airing. and they say that this would also serve a very important legislative purpose which is is that there are -- this report shows that there are a number of gap there is our laws that allowed things to happen that should never hatch. for instance 100 plus...

And vladimir putin have the same interest. donald trump wants to believe or wants the rest of us to believe that there was no collusion, that russia didnt help him get elected. so he might have a motivation to want to throw this person under the bus. if you are in the intelligence community right now and youre discovering that you maybe could become a target of william barr, what are you supposed to do now or who do you do if youre one of our sources overseas? >> theres a great fear, because thi...

And in fact it refers to another executive order that says if barr deems it of public value, he can do it and override any other agency. and one cabinet member now can order other cabinet members to follow his directions. >> so william barr, ive had friends who are in the legal world call him a monarchist, he essentially believes in this idea of a unitary executive in the president with almost uncheckable power by congress. but we now seem to have a unitary attorney general. now he has immense p...

In-law where 20 of the 25 minutes or so was about politics, and it goes exactly craig, to what you just said. we just didnt begin with the same assumption, and so i would play the, you know what, in 1890 it was xyz, and you know, its a useful diversion because then they kind of wander off. i think its particularly -- its an interesting microcosm, right? and brett writes about this a lot. my sense is if we dont find a way to reinstate and honor the role of reason and of being able to take account...

Serious lapse in judgment to weigh in as he did on friday. >> i know many noted it was just a few weeks ago that democratic leaders were praising director comey, donald trump was slamming the fbi and director comey on the campaign trail. now appears to be reversed but what has been striking, congressman, former representative joe walsh who has dabbled in the fringe, certainly, i think people agreeing he thinks comey should have said basically hes criticizing director comeys decision here and you...

Examiner, in other words, there was a case where a medical examiner said a prisoner died of an accident where, in fact, the photos show he was beaten. that should be public. so, there are instances where depictions are of great public value, and -- but this just isnt one of them. >> you have seen this, obviously? you have seen the video were talking about? >> i have. >> and you say theres nothing there that can be of value. nothing we can learn from that video? >> theres nothing you can learn fr...