And when parties have to report it. This is one of the many problems that we have in our system. It appears to be born out of historical reasons rather than anything else. We do have, for what is supposed to be a very transparent system, quite a complicated one in which there are various different registers updated at various different points. The electoral commissions register is only updated every quarter and i think this story has sort of renewed questions about whether thats really appropriate in this day and age when websites can be updated at the drop of a hat. That was the conservative Party Response so far when it came to frank hester s donations, that they have reported everything that needed to be reported in the public sphere. You have looked into this closely, could you tell us how big a donor frank hester is, how important he is to the tory partys treasure chest, essentially . Sure, i would say first of all, for many people, even political obsessives and conservative figur
And its time for lenny s last turn the comedian will present his final comic relief tonight after 39 years. Plus do you fancy more rain . I did not think so, but another wet morning for many. This weekend sunshine at times and hopefully more brightness. Its friday the 15th march. Our main story. Exposure to violent online content is now unavoidable for children in the uk, with many seeing it while still in Primary School, according to a new ofcom report. The regulator is urging social Media Companies to strengthen Child Protection on their platforms. Our Technology Reporter Shiona Mccallum reports. How much time do you think you spend on your phone a day . Even Prince William is asking these questions when meeting with a group of schoolchildren at a west london youth centre yesterday. Thats quite a lot. But i bet you feel better coming here. But when children are on their smartphones, their innocence can soon be compromised. Ofcom say out of the 2a7 children it spoke to, all of them ha
[inaudible conversations] book tv is live coverage of the 2017 National Book festival continues. Rogue h that was ted mcintyre talking about his book rogue heroes. Coming up in ten minutes, John Aloysius carol talking about his book, richard nixon. Ut we have about ten minutes between these two authors and we want to hear what you are reading. 748820 7488200. For those of you in the Eastern Central time zones, 202 7488201. If you live in the mountain and pacific time zone, these are the comments weve got on facebook and what people are reading. Robert hunter writes in and says he is reading shakespeare the man and martin is reading young radicals by Jeremy Carter and book tv has covered that book, young radicals. We will read some more these comments as we go. O. Lets hear from kathleen in plymouth michigan, cap lane, good evening to you, what are you reading. Right now im reading robert service, my favorite poet. Ob im not sure how familiar you are with robert but one of the most poig
Plus since its a threeday holiday weekend, book tv is onon for three days we will re air the entire festival, 8 30 a. M. On monday labor day. That is whats coming up. Now we have one more author speaking tonight and we will go back up into the history and biography room here at the Convention Center and this will be John Aloysius farrell talking about Richard Nixon. Book tv, live coverage. [inaudible conversations] good evening. Welcome to the main event, the last program of the evening here in the ballroom. My name is ron, i am an editor corresponded at npr and also aha fulltime faculty member at American University of school of public affairs. It is my great pleasure to be here this evening with John Aloysius, jack farrell to his friends. He has written his third book. His first book was called clarence, attorney for the damned. I think you should buy that book just for the title. The second book was the democratic century and then he turned to Richard Nixon, the life. Is such just b
Probably have have had friends who have died doing that. To me, it goes against everything in the american ethos not to be doing that. Theres a lot of unanswered questions, were still getting information now that had to be pulled out through subpoena. We dont know where the president was, what hillary was doing. You know everything what they were doing during the bin laden raid, but you dont know any of this stuff, and then, of course, you have the coverup, and it really goes in with my book for personal political gain. They wanted to show that libya was pacified because libya was their baby right . That was their intervention under the guise of the duty to protect, to stop gadhafi from killing his people. I would submit to you many more people were killed after they destabilized it. Genocide genocide of christians. Isis has a Radio Station a tv station in libya right now. Its a disaster. So before, during and after, tubs of failures tons of failures. And if Hillary Clinton decides to