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The national anthem is ringing out across Rio this month.

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After a summer of the strangest political

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shenanigans, is sport making Britain look serious?

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We're on the medal trail tonight, symbols of success

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that have the power to lift a nation.

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So how exactly have we

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The woman in charge of UK Sport will tell us what

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we're doing right and whether it can last.

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The most unfriendly rivalry - in Donetsk and on the

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Crimean peninsula, new tension between Russia and Ukraine.

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We'll ask if Brexit Britain should be

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trying to reset its relationship to Russia.

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And it is this man, Joseph Chamberlain, the new Guru

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He promised better housing, minimum wage, to crack down

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He promised many things that Theresa May promised the

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Are you one of those people who can't help poring over the medal

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Taking delight in the fact that Britain, number two,

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are ahead of China, for the moment at least?

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It is certainly more fun when your country is doing well,

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and for the third Games in a row, Britain is looking

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It wasn't always like that - some of us can remember our typical

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haul of three or four gold medals, the numbers we achieved at Munich

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Five golds was a good Games haul - Barcelona in 1992, for example.

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After the embarrassment of Atlanta, we went up one gear,

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and then after Athens, we went up another.

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Other countries have seen their fortunes shift,

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too: Australia had no golds in Montreal but rose

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Fortunes wax and wane, and fortunes are spent.

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Given the capacity of the Olympics to instil feelings of national well

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being, it's worth asking, what is it that makes

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What have we done right, and is it going to last?

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Let's start with some facts and analysis from Secunder Kermani.

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We must be doing something right. Yesterday, we won five gold medals,

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and there were more today. In Atlanta in 1996, Great Britain won

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just one medal. Is this all simply the result of more and better

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focused funding? In Sydney in 2000, Britain's Olympians received ?59

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million in funding. They won 28 medals. That's around ?2.1 million

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per medal. London 2012, Olympians received ?264 million and won 65

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medals, just over ?4 million per medal. This time round,

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they got ?274 million, and if, as looks likely, they reach their

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target of 48 medals, that would work out at ?5.7 million per medal, and

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it would be Britain's most successful overseas Olympics. I am

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most surprised by how people are surprised by how well we're doing.

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We have increased funding, good systems and structures in place, and

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in the past, we went to the Olympic Games would hope rather than

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expectation. Given the investment we have made in the last 20 years so,

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we can expect rather than hope. You might have thought that the bigger

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and richer a is, automatically the more medals it gets. This graph

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compares total medals won in 2012 with GDP full stop America, for

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example, lots of money, lots of medals. But it's not quite that

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straightforward. India, with a big economy, underperforms massively,

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while Cuba does better than you would expect. Britain is above the

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line, which means it did well. With population, the correlation is even

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bleaker. Outliers like India, massive population but few medals.

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Cuba, small population but many medals. These are more pronounced.

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So how do you explain these results? It might come down to the things

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such as the health of the population, Government policy,

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cultural importance of sport and other factors. You have to have the

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will and commitment to do that. In India, they have a vast population,

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which would presumably generate hundreds of thousands of Olympic

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athlete if the nation were really committed to developing them, but

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they are just not. Addicting the Olympics and understanding results

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has become a bit of an obsession. This formula was formulated by

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German academics. It includes GDP, whether there is a centralised

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economy, and whether the population is mainly Muslim, which can affect

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how many female athletes there are. A colleague of mine at the

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University of Colorado carried out an exercise when he compared the

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prediction of the models. The model predicted pretty much everything. It

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is hard to make like-for-like comparisons between competing

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nations and their level of funding, but Britain has been spending more

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than its other less successful rivals. For now, though, few will

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complain. It is worth saying, by the way,

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that there has been medal inflation: there are a lot more events

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in the Olympics these days. So there are 306 gold

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medals this year. Liz Nicholl is the Chief Executive

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of UK Sport and she joins Lovely to speak to you, and

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congratulations on what is going on over there. On the target, the 48,

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we will bust through that, won't we? Are you thinking it is possible

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Britain will outperform its London 2012 performance? The target, as you

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said, is at least 48. And yes, we are on track to achieve that over

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the coming days. Will we reach 66? Who knows? We know there is a good

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number of possible medal opportunities over the next week,

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and we will have to see where we get to. There is very little... The

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space between a fourth and a third and a second and a first is minute,

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so we will have to see how it plays out here in 30. It is costing us,

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depending on how many medals we end up with, around ?5 million of

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investment per medal, isn't it? Do you think about those figures, what

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it costs to get one in swimming and one in hockey? Do you work that way

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in working out the funding allocation? We work it out by

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identifying the athletes that have the potential to deliver medals in

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the Olympic Games environment, and then the sport developed a strategy,

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and we call that a what it takes to win strategy. It is omitted to us at

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UK Sport for review, and that will include what it takes to surround an

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athlete with world-class coaching, sports science, sports medicine,

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competition opportunities, innovation work where appropriate,

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and alongside that strategy, like in any business, we have a what it

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costs to win assessment. Each sport has unique check the wood features,

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and we have done a lot of work to prepare for our big Tokyo investment

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in December. My understanding was, which you haven't talked about, that

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we have the most brutal system of the big countries in terms of

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punishing sport that don't do very well, taking money away, and giving

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it to spot that don't do so well, which a lot of people say is

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perverse because you are taking money from the ones that need it. Is

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that a big part of it - the carrot and the stick? No, there is no

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punishment and no reward. We invite hast -- reinvest National Lottery

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funding. Our aim is to support every athlete with medal potential in any

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Olympic sports that are competing at the games, so it is a fair system

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that gives the opportunity to every athlete of equal talent. If they

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have the talent to deliver a medal, we support them. We are always

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investing in future potential, so we are not punishing past performances

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if they were not as successful as they should have been. We are

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investing in future potential of athletes. We have invested

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significantly in Rio, and our plan is to invest in Tokyo. Is it

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possible, particularly looking at our performance, because you put in

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a lot more money and got more medals, but everyone is not going to

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start doing what we are doing. We are getting into an arms race. We

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will have to spend ?10 million per medal next time. Is that something

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that could happen? No, I think that we need to be very smart about the

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way that we invest the National Lottery and Government exchequer

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funding in the right athletes and the right sports for the right

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reasons. A lot of other countries are copying our system here, which

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has been incredibly successful, as you can see from the performances

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and results to date here in Rio. So, yes, there will be other countries

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investing, competition will get stronger, the spread of medals will

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go wider across more nations as other countries actually look to try

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to copy the successful system we have created here. You know there is

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a bit of a pattern to host nations, is in their? They do well in the

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games before the one-day house, they do fantastically well in the one-day

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host and then there is a depreciation effect where it tails

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off. Argue confident that we can buck that trend? Do you think we

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will have a similar target in Tokyo? Might we expect 50 or more medals in

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Tokyo? I am confident that with the support of the National Lottery

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players, with the continued support of Government, that we can live

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sustained success with British athletes in the Olympic and

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Paralympic games environment. I'm confident that, in fact, we can

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build on... You are right - before the home games, there is an uplift

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because there is a stronger strategic focus on trying to deliver

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something that will make the nation proud. We saw the impact of that in

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Beijing. We saw then the full benefit in London. And since then,

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the athletes that we have funded have been delivering volunteer days

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to inspire the next generation, so that special impact of success that

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we felt in London, that we are feeling now from the performances

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here, is also giving added value to the country, to the nation, by

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inspiring the next generation of talent to come through with an

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ambition to achieve great things in the Olympic environment. Let's hope

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so. Liz Nicholl, thank you very much indeed. Enjoy the evening air.

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The festering tensions between Ukraine and Russia have

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In the last few days, the Russians have claimed that

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Ukraine orchestrated some kind of terrorist attack on Crimea that

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killed a Russian soldier and security officer.

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But both sides appear to be putting their military on alert.

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Let's talk to Tom Burridge, who is in Kiev.

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Tom, you have been to the unrecognised border between Crimea

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and Ukraine. What is happening there? Essentially, Ukrainians

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crossed the border, hit the beaches, see family friends, pretty much

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business as usual this weekend, a relaxed atmosphere at odds with the

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tension we have seen between Moscow and Kiev in recent days. We saw no

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evidence of a Ukrainian military build-up in the region, even driving

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around, which tallies with the idea and a belief of most people that

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some sort of military incursion from the south by Russia is unlikely, and

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this tension is more likely to do with the wider Ukrainian - Russian

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relations. The Russians said there was some kind of incident and a

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Russian soldier was killed, so what is the truth of it? What we know

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about what actually happened? It is hard to answer. With Russian

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involvement and strategy vis-a-vis Ukraine, we saw it with the

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annexation in 2014, the line between fact and fiction is often blurred

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and it makes it harder for western countries to respond with their own

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strategy. We know that around the time of this alleged plot, there was

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some incident, some reports of firing on the administrative border

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between Crimea and southern Ukraine, but one element of the Russian

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account of events, if you like, doesn't seem to stack up and stop

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the Russians said there was an artillery bombardment by the

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Ukrainians into Crimea just around the time, just after, basically. In

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this day and age, you would expect there to be some video evidence, and

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we have not seen that so far. We interviewed the brother of one of

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the Eurocrat is who is being detailed -- Ukrainians who is being

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detained and accused of being a plotter, creeping into Crimea to

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carry out this alleged attack. On the face of it, he doesn't seem to

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have the profile of a special Ops soldier. In the words of these

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brother, he was overweight, could hardly run 100 metres without being

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out of breath. Until recently, he was a minibus driver at a nuclear

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power plant 150 miles from Crimea, and on the face of it, his brother

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's account, his animosity and his claim that his brother is a victim

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of a bigger political picture seems genuine. Tom, thank you very much.

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Well, there is basically one big strategic choice in foreign policy:

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It is a question that's at the heart of our relationship with Russia.

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Remember that Britain is looking for new post-Brexit relationships.

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And remember, too, we no longer have the energy independence

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We're joined by Sir Tony Brenton, former British Ambassador to Russia,

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and Nancy Soderberg, who was Deputy National Security

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Good evening to you both. Nancy Soderberg, do you think this is a

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time for conciliation or toughness in relation to Russia? Vladimir

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Putin all now understands toughness. The United States has gone through

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this, we tried a reset and it didn't work. He is looking for a fight and

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we need to make sure he does not get another one in Georgia or Ukraine. I

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think he is trying to fabricate incidents and make up the mess, the

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UK is moving troops and making it clear we will defend our friends and

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that's the only message she will understand. I don't entirely agree.

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Nancy is right we need to be on our guard and not offer the Russians any

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opportunities to exploit any disagreements. But over the last

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three years we have been sliding rapidly towards people are

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describing as a new Cold War. Those of us who remember the old Cold War

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will remember it was fantastically expensive and occasionally very

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dangerous and it seems to me we need to look for ways to stop that slide,

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looking for ways of cooperating with Russia where we can. Syria is an

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obvious example, the United States is already finding ways to work with

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the Russians to help get the situation under control. I don't

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think you will disagree with that Nancy Soderberg? We obviously need

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to Russia on our strategic challenges not just in Syria but

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also Iran, they continue to support our arms control agreements in those

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pictures but on territorial disputes and brute force against not only

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their own population but some of their neighbours I think we need to

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stand up to that. Of course I am a diplomat as well and believe in

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diplomacy but I think with Russia he does not understand consolatory

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messages and will take every and she can. We are having this debate in

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the United States with our own presidential candidate on the

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Republican side questioning Nato and are use of nuclear weapons. I think

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any source of weakness which would come from the United States would be

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dangerous for Britain and all our allies in that region. You will

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agree where cooperation is useful we should cooperate but it's on the

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other things, it is how you can overlook the fact how the Russian

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state appeared to be involved in the assassination of a British citizen,

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they invaded Crimea, took it from a sovereign nation. That is all true,

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Russia is a pretty difficult international customer. But it's

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also true that Russia is not the great threat which it has been

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presented as in Washington and London. It's important to remember

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at that Russia spends on its defence about one tenth of what we in need

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to do. It has at no economy about one 20th the size of us. It sees

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itself as threatened by us. You are any classic situation where each

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side sea itself threatened by the other and you need to look for ways

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to get those false impressions on both sides down. A quick answer on

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that Nancy Soderberg? It is Russia creating false impressions by saying

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it had to go to the Ukrainian defence. We have to look at areas of

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cooperation but Russia is a very dangerous regional power, it's no

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longer a superpower so we are not headed towards a new Cold War but we

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are headed towards a possibility of not having a partner in Russia and

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having a regional, very weak governmental lashing out in a

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dangerous way. We need to try and contain them as we did in the Soviet

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Union but on a much smaller scale. This president is not one who will

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understand anything but strength from Nato and it's important to

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convey that. You will not agree on that point but let asked if Brexit

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makes a difference, does it mean we need to Russia as a friend, is it

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time for a re-set? I don't think Brexit makes a huge difference, at

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the harder end of that, our position on this I understand will not change

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very quickly and from the EU point of view, one thing we have brought

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to their party has been our foreign policy and defence expertise and I

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am sure they will want to maintain those links as strongly as they can.

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Nancy Soderberg I am guessing you will worry about the effects of

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Brexit, Britain was pulling the UK towards your position? -- pulling

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the EU to urge position? I think it's a mistake for the UK to pull

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out of the EU, I think a stronger EU is in everyone's interest. I can

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guarantee Vladimir Putin is loving this debate about watching Europe

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fall apart amongst itself over no big issue. I think it's unfortunate,

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I think it is survivable but it doesn't help put a unified front

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against Russia when the biggest foreign policy power, the most

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respected part of the EU, frankly, Leeds. That's not good for anyone.

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Nancy Soderberg, Sir Tony Brenton, thank you very much.

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Theresa May has been Prime Minister for over a month now,

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but it still doesn't feel like we really know

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Early days, but maybe we have a clue as to her thinking in the fact that

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on the steps of Downing Street she name-checked Joseph Chamberlain,

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a politician who helped define modern Conservatism.

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He wasn't really a Conservative at all.

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He was a radical and a liberal who built his career by building

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Lewis Goodall reports on Joseph Chamberlain

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In 30 years, Birmingham grew into a dirty,

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The transformation that was to come was more astonishing.

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Elegant thoroughfares, sewers, clean water,

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beautiful civic buildings like the law courts

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One man is responsible for this - Theresa May's new lodestar.

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You could say that Joseph Chamberlain

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was Britain's first truly modern political

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political organiser, someone who was truly transformative.

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He turned Birmingham from being just a quiet,

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provincial backwater into one of the most advanced and progressive

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Joseph Chamberlain became mayor of the city

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This Victorian chameleon was a radical liberal, a guardian of

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the working class, and a godfather of municipal conservatism, and he's

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The political hero of one Nick Timothy, Theresa May's

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chief of staff and most trusted adviser, is none other than

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And who should be mentioned in her first policy speech

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From Robert Peel to Lady Thatcher, from Joseph Chamberlain to Winston

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Churchill, throughout history, it has been the Conservative Party's

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role to rise to the occasion and to take on the vested interests before

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Listen to the kind of language she uses -

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We don't just believe in individualism

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We value the role that only the state can play.

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Chamberlain took the waterworks and gas supply

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into city ownership and disease fell.

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This was local nationalisation, and the profits were

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This was the Civic Gospel, that famous Victorian morality.

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The Civic Gospel was born of a religious idea.

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Chamberlain was a Unitarian and a nonconformist.

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His approach terrified the middle classes of the

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day, who saw him as a gas and water socialist.

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We have not the slightest intention of making profit, he said.

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We shall get our profit in the comfort and health of our

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I think it was Chamberlain's business sense to take

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that risk, to see that there was potential that they could gain

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profit, and that that profit could fund

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other ventures, such as the

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building of the museum and art gallery which we are standing in

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The university is one of Chamberlain's most abiding legacies.

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It represents the power of civic pride that made

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Birmingham the first of

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In the shadow of the old Joe clock tower, Malcolm Dick explains

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Chamberlain's primary contribution to Conservative history - the appeal

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We can see him emphasising a social reform

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strand, at least in as far as linking working-class aspirations,

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social and economic aspirations, with the state.

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And a tradition of strong local authorities versus a

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Chamberlain began life as a liberal, but split over home-rule, founding

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Then he took them into the Conservative Party.

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He believed in the union and in

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policies that appealed to the working class.

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But Chamberlain was also an avowed imperialist.

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He was colonial secretary and progenitor of the

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He wanted the Empire to be a single trade block.

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He designed Corporation Street, a Parisian-style

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boulevard running through Birmingham to sell its wares.

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And the taxes on those goods would be

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Imperialism was probably his fatal mistake, but a politically

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He promised better housing, old-age pensions, the

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minimum wage, to crack down on immigration.

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things that Theresa May promised the day.

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It is the only industrial city where the

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Conservative Party has survived in significant numbers.

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A strong presence in the council chamber

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Their local leader relishes a Tory shift

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I think we will see a focus on an industrial

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Theresa May talked about the importance of

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making sure that key industries aren't taken out of the country.

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And I think we will see some changes on

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devolution, a speeding up of the devolving

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strings to allow cities to really make the best deal they can.

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Theresa May has been in politics for 30

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years, and Home Secretary for the last six, yet

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we know surprisingly little about her political beliefs.

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Chamberlain may well be her lodestar, and if he is, the

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Conservatives are in for a bit of a shock,

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strand of conservatism and Conservative thought that would mark

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the biggest departure for the party since 1979.

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Churchill said of Chamberlain that he was a politician

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If Theresa May is serious in reawakening this

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strand of thinking, she may well yet manage the same.

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Back to the Olympics now, and time to join one of the country's

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Not Stephen Smith, needless to say, but the evergreen former Olympics

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and Match of the Day commentator, Barry Davies.

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Will Stephen Smith complete his Olympic marathon?

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Oh, you can really feel it in the pelotons.

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Just getting into the spirit after Jason Kenny and Laura Trott,

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It was for me, I didn't get off the couch until four.

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I must say it's an absolute treat to have a proper

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I think it's exhilarating stuff, we're doing far better

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I wonder if I'm really setting the right tone sitting on a sofa

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Is this what Lord Reith had in mind when he began sports coverage?

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COMMENTATOR: Into the finishing straight, Jason Kenny has got this

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and Jason Kenny wins the gold medal for the second time!

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You half expect the lead guy to throw some tacks over

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COMMENTATOR: It is gold medal number five.

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And Max Whitlock has gone ahead of Louis Smith.

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Do these guys basically dislike each other?

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They can't help but be sore and jealous if things don't

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I mean, I know the Americans like to say we are only

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going for gold but if you get a medal you have done darn well.

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The contrast this summer between the Olympians

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with the performance of the England team at Euro 2016.

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The major difference is that these guys, certainly

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in their first Olympics, have to do something

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They are not making money at an early stage of their lives.

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Some young footballers are making a lot of money for their potential,

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Can you remember some Olympic moment, maybe you had an iffy tummy,

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I did an Olympic Games, doing the opening

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By making sure you are prepared for the disaster.

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Do you wish you were out there this time?

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Talking to you is worth probably a copper.

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It's always good to see a sportsman working hard.

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At the height of his game, yeah.

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But if you're an older viewer and you have a funny feeling

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that the Olympic women's gymnastics are a little bit more...

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Well, more everything than you remember from your youth,

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we leave you with this rather clever comparison made by the music channel

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MTV which suggests that you're absolutely right.

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Hello. After a day in which we saw sunny skies from Shetland to the

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Channel Islands, a fine start to Tuesday morning. Things will be on

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the cool side in the countryside but quickly warming up as blue skies for

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most of the day, some cloud towards eastern coasts. For most, sunny

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skies throughout. Northern is

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