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counter demonstrators. ukraine has condemned russia s assumption of the rotating presidency of the un security council as a slap in the face to the international community . ukraine s foreign minister urged council members to thwart any russian attempts to abuse the position. the presidency is largely ceremonial, although it oversees the agenda. now on bbc news, the media show geordie greig: britain s best connected editor. hello. what does the future hold for britain s newspapers? few people are more qualified to answer that question than my guest on the media show today, and it s rare to get an interview with him. welcome to the independent. thank you so much. lovely to be here. very nice to have you here. geordie greig has sat in the editor s chair at some of the country s biggest titles, the daily mail, the mail on sunday, as well as the evening standard, tatler magazine, and since january here at the independent geordie. geordie greig, welcome to the media show ....
And did you? i used to get some replies, but i mean, i set up something which was really the self promotional geordie greig society, but it was called the contemporary art society and i used to invite people down to school and i would interview them. sometimes it worked. joanna lumley came down and this was an old boys school. this was it was an all boys school. so there was a slightly embarrassing moment when i was putting the microphone onjoanna lumley and she was fairly dear. silly boys all went, whoa, i blush like a, like a traffic light. anyway, a0 odd years on, we re still in touch. i believe in long relationships with people you meet on your way. and i recently interviewed david hockney, who i wrote to from school, and that is more than a0 years later, he s allowing me to interview him. it s enjoyable, privileged and exciting. yourfirst proper journalism job was in local newspapers at the southeast london and the kentish mercury, based in deptford. why did they hire you, do you ....