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Speaker nancy pelosi announcing the formation of a select committee to investigate. This morning with great solemnity and sadness im announcing that the house will be establishing a select committee on the january 6 insurrection. Again, january 6th was one of the darkest days in our nations history. Ive said it now three times. It is imperative that we establish the truth of that day and ensure that an attack of that kind cannot happen and that we root out the causes of it all. Speaker pelosis announcement follows months now of public and brazen obstruction by Senate Republicans including voti...

Speaker nancy pelosi announcing the formation of a select committee to investigate. This morning with great solemnity and sadness im announcing that the house will be establishing a select committee on the january 6 insurrection. Again, january 6th was one of the darkest days in our nations history. Ive said it now three times. It is imperative that we establish the truth of that day and ensure that an attack of that kind cannot happen and that we root out the causes of it all. Speaker pelosis announcement follows months now of public and brazen obstruction by Senate Republicans including voti...

The bbc in what it does. we don't have equivalent metrics of public value or public purpose in many public organisations. so the bigger question, and this is why i've set up a whole institute at university college about this, if public purpose is the goal, if we have missions that are societal in nature, you know, around the sustainable development goals, what are the metrics we need that go beyond cost—benefit analysis, net—present value, that actually capture these dynamic spill—overs across the economy that the moon landing had...? but how does the state itself — like, we need to ho...

Economy would work. and i would put it to you there is a desperate lack of trust and faith in governance. absolutely, but that�*s why the book doesn�*t stop at the notion of moonshot submissions, it then looks at the metrics. like, what�*s the accountability that should be in place to make sure our governments and different types of public institutions are actually working for people? so look at the bbc, where we�*re sitting today. inside the bbc is a metric and a concept of public value, which is really, really interesting. it actually guides the bbc in what it does. we don�*t have ...

Across the economy that the moon landing had...? but how does the state itself — like, we need to hold it accountable, and if you don't do that, you get weak states, which then, in their work with the private sector, can become easily captured because itjust becomes about being business—friendly. we're almost out of time. i want to end by asking you, do you think we are heading in the right direction? not long ago, i had john kerry sitting in that chair, the special us representative on climate change. he said, "things are extraordinarily difficult, but fundamentally, i'm optimistic we can...