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14:27 UK time, Tuesday, 3 July 2012
We discussed global warming with well-known sceptic James Delingpole and Andrew Pendleton of Friends of the Earth (FoE) on the Daily Politics (June 22).
One of the great claims of the sceptics is that that global temperatures have not risen in this century and that they probably stopped rising in 1995.
10:33 UK time, Monday, 26 March 2012
I pushed Tory Party deputy chairman Michael Fallon on BBC1's Sunday Politics, in the wake of the Sunday Times' "cash for access" revelations, if the prime minister's meetings with major party donors were all documented and in the public domain.
Mr Fallon pointed out that all meetings with ministers were now documented, had at least one official present and were published -- a departure from past practice.
11:17 UK time, Tuesday, 20 March 2012
The Daily Politics understands Wednesday's Budget will be dominated by two major announcements.
1. The tax-free allowance before income tax clicks in will be increased more quickly than the coalition agreement currently envisages, reaching £10,000 in April 2014, a year earlier than planned.
12:08 UK time, Monday, 27 February 2012
Yesterday's Head to Head on the Sunday Politics on House of Lords reform between Tory trouble-making MP Philip Davies and a maverick Liberal Democrat peer Matthew Oakeshott might seem like an amusing sideshow to mainstream politics.
But later in our Week Ahead segment The Economist's Janan Ganesh described it as the shape of coalition politics to come.
13:28 UK time, Tuesday, 21 February 2012
So, after 13 hours of talks into the wee small hours of this morning (unlucky for them!), eurozone finance ministers finally reached an agreement in principle on a second Greek bailout, this one worth 130bn euro plus a 50%+ write-down of private lenders holdings of Greek sovereign debt.
Since it's less than two years since Bailout 1 of 110bn euro and things in Greece have gone from bad to worse, you might wonder why this second one will do any better. And you'd not be the only one doing the wondering.
11:35 UK time, Monday, 9 January 2012
In the summer of 2008, several months before the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the start of the deepest recession since the 1930s, I gave a talk to senior colleagues at the BBC.
My theme was that the Age of Plenty was over and that we were about to move into an era dominated by the Politics of Debt.
11:48 UK time, Thursday, 27 October 2011
The markets are cautious but in positive territory this morning as they view what is coming out of the eurozone summit in Brussels as less than required but better than no deal at all.
The latest plan to handle the eurozone's sovereign debt crisis did not emerge until the wee small hours of this morning and it gives us little more than the architecture of what has been agreed.
10:50 UK time, Thursday, 20 October 2011
A leading Tory backbencher says his party's high command is in "complete panic" over next week's Commons vote on an EU referendum.
David Cameron has imposed a three-line whip to vote it down and brought forward the debate from Thursday to Monday so he and the Foreign Secretary can be there (they will be abroad on Thursday).
12:21 UK time, Wednesday, 19 October 2011
Energy Secretary Chris Huhne says that our fuel bills wouldn't rise so much if we could wean ourselves off ever-rising fossil fuels.
The big power companies say they've had to hike our gas and electricity bills because of rising global energy prices. I've been looking at energy prices and I'm not sure the picture is quite as they say.
11:40 UK time, Tuesday, 18 October 2011
Higher fuel, food and transport costs - something every household is all too aware of - have propelled inflation to fresh highs in September.
The CPI, the government's preferred measure, hit 5.2% (well up on August's 4.5%) while the more broadly-based RPI (which better reflects household spending patterns) shot up to 5.6% (from 5.2% in August), the highest for 20 years.
02:21 UK time, Monday, 17 October 2011
Chancellor George Osborne says the eurozone's sovereign debt crisis "remains the epicentre of the world's current problems."
His Washington counterpart, US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, has warned that unless the eurozone sorts its problems out pronto the world faces "cascading default, bank runs and catastrophic risk."
10:09 UK time, Tuesday, 11 October 2011
I flew out of New York last night reading a New York Times report about collapsing living standards in Middle America to arrive in London to a similar story about Britain.
Between June 2009, when the US recession officially ended, and June 2011, inflation-adjusted median household income fell 6.7%, to $49,909, according to a study by two former Census Bureau officials.
10:37 UK time, Tuesday, 4 October 2011
I make no apologies for returning to government spending on health.
The Tory promise in the election to ring-fence health spending and increase it in real terms every year even during a period of public spending cuts was distinctive and much-touted during the 2010 election campaign.
10:36 UK time, Tuesday, 4 October 2011
Journalistic inquiry here in Manchester since Chancellor George Osborne finished his speech has concentrated on trying to find out more about his plans for credit easing (or monetary activism as the Treasury also calls it).
You can see my efforts to learn more from Treasury Minister Justine Greening here.
18:02 UK time, Monday, 3 October 2011
Last night I interviewed Health Secretary Andrew Lansley live on the BBC News Channel before an audience of the Tory faithful.
I suggested to him that, because inflation was much higher than had been anticipated 18 months ago, his election promise to ring-fence health spending to ensure a modest real rise in spending (ie an increase after allowing for inflation) every year, was in jeopardy.
11:43 UK time, Wednesday, 28 September 2011
Party conferences are a maelstrom of things said that don't turn out to be quite accurate or don't manage to last the week.
That's true of all party conferences but we're in Liverpool with Labour so let's look at some examples from here.
19:09 UK time, Monday, 26 September 2011
I interviewed Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls on the Daily Politics Conference Special on Monday, live from Liverpool, the moment he'd finished speaking to the Labour conference.
In the course of our usual robust exchange, which we both enjoy, he made a couple of claims that I knew I would have to investigate more thoroughly. And I have!
01:32 UK time, Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Vince Cable didn't quite deliver as expected.
Last year the Business Secretary played to the Lib Dem gallery with a populist speech that depicted capitalism as brutal and dismissed bankers as "spivs and gamblers".
16:49 UK time, Sunday, 18 September 2011
In aftermath of the Lib Dems terrible local election results and the spectacular loss of the AV referendum (remember that?) in May, the party's annual conference, which has just opened in Birmingham, could have had the makings of a lynch mob for Nick Clegg.
But matters did not go from bad to worse for him during the summer and he has arrived here in relatively good shape. His position, for now, is secure.
16:50 UK time, Tuesday, 21 June 2011
I enjoyed my little spat with George Galloway on Tuesday's Daily Politics.
After asking if he still regarded Syria's President Assad as a "breath of fresh air" I moved on to ask about the veracity of an incredible exchange he'd had on the London-based Iranian-run Press TV, where he works.
Presenter of the Daily Politics on BBC Two and the Sunday Politics on BBC One.
In a long career in publishing and broadcasting Andrew has been UK editor of The Economist, editor of The Sunday Times, executive chairman of Sky Television and publisher of The Scotsman Group of newspapers.
He has presented Midnight Hour, Despatch Box and, when he was fresh out of university, Tomorrow's World and The Risk Business.
Currently, when not on air, he is chairman of the Spectator Group of magazines.
One award: "Editor least likely ever to get a knighthood."
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