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Iran, the Vatican and England, members of the elite club where the | :00:00. | :00:15. | |
head of faith is also head of state. ??FORCEDWHI Could it be time to end | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
all this? The deputy PM thinks so, the church doesn't. Look what we | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
have in France, fanatical sec collateralism. In America, fanatical | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
fundamentalism. Because we have the Church of England as the established | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
church we, on the whole, have a rational, sensible approach to | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
religion. We will be asking these two in that's right. Will Damon | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
Albarn finally concede oasis were better than Blair. That is not a | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
very grown-up question for Newsnight is it? I think Obeysies were better. | :00:50. | :00:57. | |
-- obeysies were better. Doing God, as David Cameron proved | :00:58. | :01:07. | |
in his Easter message can still spark a strong reaction of how about | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
not doing God. The proposal from his deputy is separate church and state. | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
Nick Clegg is a modern day Henry VII taking things a step too far. This | :01:18. | :01:23. | |
is Terry untouched for 500 years since the age of the English | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
reformation. Today our deputy leader questioned why is the head of state | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
the head of faith. It leaves us in a club of three, the Vatican and Iran | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
are strange bed fellows. Should the link be dissolved and would the link | :01:38. | :01:45. | |
be lost if it was. There is very little that is more evocative of | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
Englishness than a grand Anglican Church. But is it time for the | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
Church of England to turn a little Welsh. 100 years ago this year Wales | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
disestablished its national church, the church in Wales became a | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
stand-alone body, the Queen isn't its head. Nick Clegg thinks the | :02:05. | :02:06. | |
Church of England should follow suit. My personal view is in the | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
long run having the state and the church basically bound up with each | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
other, as we do in this country I think in the long run it would be | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
better for the church and better for people of faith and better for | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
Anglicans if the church and the state were, over time, to sort of | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
stand on their own two, separate feet so to speak. You can say what | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
you like about the Liberal Democrats, at least they are | :02:32. | :02:44. | |
consistent, back then it was the question of liberty and state, these | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
days it is more about whether or not the Anglican Church is still | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
relevant. The last census saw a marked decline in people who saw | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
themselves as Christian, and a rise in the number of people who declared | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
no faith. Furthermore the last church census, which took place in | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
2005 found that Anglicans had the same market share among active | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
church goers as Catholics, they were no longer the biggest church, and | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
Polish immigration in recent years means that Catholics are now almost | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
certainly larger. Disestablishment would mean the 26 bishops who sit in | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
the House of Lords, the so called Lords Spiritual, would lose their | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
seats. The Queen would cease to be the head of the church, and the | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
church might lose assets given to it by the state. But the argument about | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
establishment goes to the heart of the question of what the church is | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
for? I think it is important to realise the Church of England | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
believes in establishment if it does not for its own ends, the church has | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
lived and could live with disestablishment or anything. The | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
church in Wales is disestablished and perked up. So long as the | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
country as a whole feels it does in some way serve the common good both | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
locally and nationally I think there is a strong case for the continuing | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
establishment. But some people question whether the church is | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
serving enough of the country to justify staying established. Before | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
anybody had a right to get married, if they hadn't been married before | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
in a Church of England church, and that is no longer the case, because | :04:21. | :04:27. | |
of the gay marriage situation. Gay people can now get married in the | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
eyes of the state, but they are excluded from church marriages. So | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
now for the first time the church is no longer a church for the nation, | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
so I think they have made a mistake over gay marriage. That has | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
strengthened the case for disestablishment. Still this | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
argument is likely to remain an academic one for some time to come. | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
That's because, even though British people are a pretty irreligious lot, | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
they do actually really quite like Christianity. And an international | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
poll show that Britons have a much more positive view of Christians | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
than other countries with similar levels of religious observance, it | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
is rather close to the US, where around three-times as many people | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
report religion playing a very important role in their life. One of | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
the reasons disestablishment of the Church of England hasn't happened is | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
it would take months and months of parliamentary time. You couldn't | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
just do it overnight. In effect what we already have is a kind of | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
creeping disestablishment. Gradually links are getting looser and looser | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
in many respects, for example, over the appointment of bishops, the | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
Prime Minister's role in that is much less than it was in the past. | :05:40. | :05:50. | |
So, that century-old liberal party commitment will remain unfulfilled, | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
however the marriage between state and church will shift and change, | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
and perhaps one day we may wake up and realise the Monarch is the only | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
thing that the Channel Tunnel and state have in common. Giles Fraser | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
is a priest at St Mary's in Newington, and former canon of St | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
Pauls, and we have the Speaker's chaplain to the House of Commons and | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
chaplain to the Queen. Thank you very much both of you for coming in. | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
The point made there Rose, is the church isn't serving enough of the | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
country to really make this argument valid any more? That is a spurious | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
argument, really, in particular seemed to be centered around the | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
whole issue of gay marriage. Because the church isn't conducting gay | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
marriages then it is not serving the rest of people. Just the numbers put | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
there? The numbers in terms of the percentages of people. Two thirds of | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
Christians aren't even Anglicans any more, you saw the growing numbers | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
are those of no faith, not Christian faith? Do you know the reality, I'm | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
not so sure about that. The reality is that in inner city areas, in | :06:58. | :07:04. | |
rural areas, when the pub closes its doors, when the school closes its | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
doors, when the supermarkets or the post offices are gone, the Church of | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
England is the one institution that is still there and serving all the | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
people in that community. Willing and open for everyone. That's | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
brilliant but you don't need to have establishment in order to do T the | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
problem with establishment is not that I think it is bad for the | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
country, I think it might be good for the country. I think it is bad | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
for the church. I think it is bad for the church, for us to be so | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
close to the establishment. We cosy up to the establishment and it | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
blunts our message. I think we are not free to be the church because we | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
are too close to the powers that be and we quite like being too close to | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
the powers that be. What would the church look like without that link? | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
The church would be much freer, more like it is in the United States, it | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
may grow and have more political influence, but it doesn't need to be | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
there. I want it to be more political, I don't want the | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
political links to be established links. I think the church is | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
strangely less political. If I said to Rose, as her job as speaker, is | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
there any MP whose political views you would publicly condemn? I | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
actually think you probably couldn't do it? I'm not so sure about that. | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
Come on, you know Rose, you know what it is like? I would not, as | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
someone in a Pastoral role with others, I may not publicly out there | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
condemn them, but I would certainly be willing to speak to them about | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
their behaviour or whatever. This is the problem, publicly we're not | :08:41. | :08:48. | |
publicly being able to speak out Protestant fetically because we have | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
this d prophetically in this role. If you have listened to the same | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
bishops in the House of Lords, or the charge bishops, they have spoken | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
out recently. They are the ones who are leading the discussions with | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
regards to welfare reform, with regards to the scandal. Anyone could | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
be doing that, a rabbi could be doing it, an Iman could be doing it? | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
But they are the one that is are doing it. Don't you concede it is an | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
enormous privilege and power given to Anglican, a diminishing quantity | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
in this country, in the parliamentary system, that cannot be | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
right? I think, I feel that we are obsessed about this. And certainly | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
listening to what Nick Clegg said about it, for me faith ask not | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
something in a box separate from politics or separate from something | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
else. It is who I am. And so what we need to be doing is to enable | :09:48. | :09:55. | |
peoples, those who are of faith to actually express who they are as | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
people of faith in whatever walks of life they find themselves. Are we | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
really free, I want the Channel Tunnel to play a greater role in the | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
public sphere, I want it out and proud about what it thinks. Can we | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
really be that when our bishops are appointed through processes from | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
Downing Street, and state has this enormously role in choosing the | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
Archbishop of Canterbury, actually we are compromises by our complicity | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
and closeness with the state. That is not entirely true. Can I ask you | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
to look at it from the perspective of the state, do you worry without | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
that, if the link is broken it won't be replaced with another link and | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
another faith, wouldn't the state lose its spiritual dimension? I | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
don't know what that means, the heart of the Church of England is | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
not... You don't think it offers morality, you don't think it guides | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
the state? No, that comes through the democratic state and the voters | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
and the House of Commons. The Church of England is at its core is in the | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
parishes, and what Rose talks about fact we are out there in every | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
community in the land. That is absolutely the crucial work we do. | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
It is not about what we do whispering people inner mine Ermine | :11:09. | :11:18. | |
in the House of Lords. What about the church withdrawing from public | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
life? It would free us up to participate more? This establishment | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
would present an image of the church in retreat. Right now the church as | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
an established church represents the ability to be in the prison, in the | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
chaplain. It sounds like you are worried about the perception of | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
retreat? No, it is more than a perception. The work that the church | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
does in prisons, in hospitals, in schools. We can still do that, they | :11:48. | :12:01. | |
do it in Wales, they They do that everywhere. Having an established | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
church here sends a message to other faiths that you are free to be who | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
you are. What you represent as a person of faith is welcome. Do you | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
accept that, that it does encourage people of different faiths to be | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
able to feel freer to express that? Some people think, that the former | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
Chief Rabbi used to think that, a lot of people don't feel that. Many | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
people of other faiths don't have a problem with this? You hold the | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
ring. My argument is not a problem, I'm not arguing from other faiths, | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
I'm saying that the church of the establishment prefers dressing-up to | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
speaking out and that is the problem. I don't know about that, I | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
think that the church still has a prophetic role, and I think this is | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
a secularist agenda. I don't see people in my parish in Hackney, this | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
is not on their lips. This establishment is not a priority. Let | :12:54. | :13:01. | |
me ask you, this was brought up as a concept very typically by the Prime | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
Minister at Easter, do you feel physically used by politicians going | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
on about the church, possibly for a very sort of voter-specific reason? | :13:10. | :13:17. | |
Each person will have to answer for themselves whether they are standing | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
up front and saying I'm a person of faith and I think Britain is a | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
religious country, if they are doing it genuinely or if they are doing it | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
because they want to make a political show. But I believe that | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
Britain is a Christian country. And you believe it will stay like that? | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
You nodded when we were talking about parliamentary time? It was | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
right in the package at the beginning, is you won't unravel this | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
cat's cradle, no-one will give it the parliamentary time. I would like | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
that to happen, I like Thomas Jefferson's wisdom about the | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
separation of church and state would be a good one to bring back here. | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
That won't happen. There is much more priority for the nation than | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
that. Agreed. Thank you both very much indeed. Coming up Helen Mirren | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
as Shakespeare's Cleopatra. I think there was or might be such a man as | :14:08. | :14:16. | |
this? A 72-year-old British grandfather has become the latest | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
victim of Pakistan's notorious blasphemy law, after reading some | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
verses from the Koran, he was jailed for posing to be a Muslim and locked | :14:25. | :14:31. | |
up for 65 days. He has now fled bail and is staying with his children in | :14:32. | :14:45. | |
Glasgow. We went to speak to him. I was thinking I haven't done | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
anything, why have you taken me? They said we know what to do with | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
you, we will beat you so much you will never forget ever. He's safe | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
for now, in November he was arrested and persecuted in Pakistan for his | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
religious beliefs. He's escaped to Britain and is now living in | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
Glasgow, but even here he's not accepted by many Muslims. He was | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
jailed in Pakistan for reading a verse from the Koran. His crime was | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
posing to be a Muslim and violating the country's infamous blasphemy | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
laws. These are the circumstances when I came to London, I started my | :15:21. | :15:27. | |
education. And I studied in the 1960s and 1970s. He's part of the | :15:28. | :15:34. | |
community, a religious sect deemed non-Muslim by the Pakistani | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
Government. Educated in Britain, he worked as a homeopath in Lahore for | :15:38. | :15:44. | |
many years. He was tricked publicly into expressing his beliefs by a | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
young man posing as a patient. He asked me some medical advice, I | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
wrote whatever was needed and after that he pushed me into the religious | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
questions. I took the Koran out and said let's see what the Koran says? | :15:57. | :16:04. | |
I just quoted a little bit and translated into Urdu, and then the | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
police came in. And they grabbed me from the neck and took me straight | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
to the police station. I never knew what happened. This secret recording | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
could have him jailed for up to three years. Members of the | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
community are considered outside the fold of Muslim by many Muslims | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
because of their belief in a subservient prophet after Mohammed. | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
He believes he was targeted. It was planned many months ago. It wasn't | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
an all of a sudden. Because there was a black mark on my car and a | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
black mark on my shop, and at that time I thought they are going to do | :16:44. | :16:50. | |
something. And they did. To avoid reprisals from other prisoners, | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
those arrested on blasphemy charges are locked up together. Masood spent | :16:55. | :17:04. | |
65 years in jail together with two other members of the secretary while | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
on remand. It was a small cell, and there was a toilet everything within | :17:09. | :17:16. | |
it. We had to sleep on the floor, we had our own blankets. When you are | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
mentally strong you can bear anything. What is every day life in | :17:21. | :17:28. | |
Pakistan like for your group? After 1984 after the constitution, every | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
one of us is in danger, even when walking in the street you can be | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
prosecuted and sent to prison, even if he looks like a Muslim. Any of us | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
can be sent to prison, can be murdered at any time, and nobody | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
will ask why did you do that? Because he's a second class, or | :17:48. | :17:56. | |
rather third class citizens. Masood's family in Glasgow is now | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
taking care of him, including his 20-year-old daughter, she's angry | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
but puts her faith in God that those behind this will be punished. They | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
will pay for this, because they are doing bad to people who have done | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
nothing to them. They do so many things to us, but we have never said | :18:14. | :18:24. | |
one word of hatred to them. Love for all. So whether a Mullah or anyone | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
else, we don't hate them. She didn't know how tough I am, that is the | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
reason, she was worried! She's my favourite granddaughter. After | :18:37. | :18:43. | |
suffering rejection and persecution at the hands of Pakistan Masood | :18:44. | :18:55. | |
doesn't hope to return to his homeland. I have a freedom here, I | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
love my country but I can't go back, if I go back I will be in prison or | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
murdered. I have no choice, except to live in Britain, and enjoy the | :19:05. | :19:20. | |
freedom. New mortgage rules come into force at midnight aimed at | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
ensuring borrowers are not offered loans they can't afford. Borrowers | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
are warned to expect more scrutiny and rejection. It is aimed to | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
clamp-down on boom time lending. Will it make it harder to borrow? | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
What is crucial is some members have been doing this for years already, | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
but from tomorrow they will be required to do it, if they don't | :19:44. | :19:46. | |
show they are doing it, they will get in trouble with the regulator. | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
What is that experience of them asking you about your grocery bill, | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
your gas bill, what you spend on grooming, how does that constrain | :19:57. | :20:03. | |
lending? If you look at how much people are borrowing, far from | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
borrowing less, it has allowed us to borrow more. Under the 1980s you | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
could borrow two-and-a-half times your joint income, if you had a | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
couple with a joint income of ?150,000, lucky them, they could | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
borrow ?375,000, under the new system I have quotes, and Halifax | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
will lend you ?675,000, four-times your income, Skipton ?750,000, | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
five-times your income, and a higher amount, Newcastle will lend you | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
?862, five-and-a-half times your income. Finding out what you spend | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
on hair and gas means they may lend you more. Will it be harder for a | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
first time buyer to stretch to buy the best property? What people did | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
in the past is if they couldn't afford the monthly payment they | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
would like an interest-only mortgage. Now they are stretching | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
the mortgage over a longer term, that can really cut your payments. | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
In the past over 25 years, borrowing ?500,000, you would pay ?2,900, if | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
you stretch it out to 35 years you can cut the monthly payment to | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
?2,500. It can make you cheaper but the mortgages are getting longer and | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
longer and stretching into retirement, you might pay until you | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
are 75. If you take first time buyers versus buy-to-let, different | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
treatment for them? Completely different, if you are buying for | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
your own home it is a regulated mortgage. If it is a buy-to-let | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
mortgage it is not regulated, they don't need to know about your gas | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
bill or grooming. It means for the same monthly payment they can borrow | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
more, and buy-to-let investors can compete better for the houses on the | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
market. The summer of 1994 was the summer Britpop ruled the waves, | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
Blur's Parklife came out 20 years ago today. Oasis's Definitely Maybe | :21:56. | :22:02. | |
was on the way. The music was arrogant, cheeky, and anthemic, it | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
suggested a country beginning to feel at ease with itself once again. | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
20 years on we went to meet unwith of the artists that inspired a | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
generation. The Blur front man, Damon Albarn. Can you remember what | :22:16. | :22:26. | |
you were doing at the height of Britpop, perhaps you were running | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
the country. Bandses like Damon Albarn's Blur, furnished the | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
soundtrack to the early Blair years, Cool Britannia and all that. | :22:38. | :22:44. | |
# What is known as parklife. Today is a red letter day, 20 years since | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
Parklife came out, we have producers on Newsnight younger than that. Are | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
you feeling nostalgic, how do you look back on that record in that | :22:55. | :23:01. | |
time? I'm not feeling nostalgic, I'm very much in the present. That was | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
an extraordinary year for me and it changed my life. It was great shock | :23:09. | :23:19. | |
to the system, I think you talk to anyone who has that meteoric rise, | :23:20. | :23:26. | |
it takes a while to come out of that the other side, you know. But what | :23:27. | :23:36. | |
is being billed as his first solo record, Albarn has been revisiting | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
his roots in East London and Essex. He's also been reflecting on other | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
phases in his life, one nomic reference to heroin has been | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
generating column inches. My experience was a long time ago. I | :23:53. | :24:01. | |
wrote about it in one song which is You and Me, it is in context, the | :24:02. | :24:11. | |
context is it is a song about the ghosts of Notting Hill Carnival, | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
which I live on one of the Main Streets where the prosession goes | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
through. And it is incredible. You get the three brilliant days where | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
two million people pass through this neighbourhood and then silence, | :24:26. | :24:28. | |
everything overnight disappears, but there is this energy and these | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
ghosts are still there, and the whole song is about ghosts. It is | :24:33. | :24:42. | |
one of my ghosts. I personally don't have an addictive personality, I | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
mean, I can have a cigarette and then not have a cigarette for five | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
days and then have another one. I'm very lucky like that. I have not for | :24:50. | :25:05. | |
one secondam Making the -- am Making up the he pretence that everyone is | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
like me. This idea of me being a liberty teen in best London | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
celebrating drug taking couldn't be further from that. | :25:15. | :25:23. | |
# We are every day robots # In the process of getting home | :25:24. | :25:37. | |
Albarn's new material is autobiograical. Instead of breathing | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
life into his animated groan Gorillaz, or channelling Elizabethan | :25:43. | :25:49. | |
mystic Dr Dee. He's now assumed the role of baffled dad, wondering at | :25:50. | :25:57. | |
the younger generation and their gadgets. You have a | :25:58. | :26:00. | |
14-and-a-half-year-old daughter and their relationship with social media | :26:01. | :26:09. | |
is in a way alien to me, I know they look at us and think that we are the | :26:10. | :26:20. | |
ones that are in need of some form of evolution. Now some Britpop for | :26:21. | :26:30. | |
the teenagers, a tune which Ken Dodd no less took to the charts in 1960. | :26:31. | :26:42. | |
# Love is like a violin # Da-da-da-da. Newsnight can reveal | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
Albarn is tinkering with a project about the Music Halls. One big | :26:48. | :26:55. | |
question remains. Our editor would like to know who you think was | :26:56. | :27:02. | |
better, you lot or Oasis! That's not a very grown-up question for | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
Newsnight is it. I will pass that on. | :27:08. | :27:15. | |
# I'm feeling supersonic I think Oasis were better. I think | :27:16. | :27:23. | |
they were better at communicating who they were than we were. We will | :27:24. | :27:35. | |
ask Noel Gallagher the same question. Just the papers before we | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
go. The Times has the mortgage story. Baby George on his way home. | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
The Treasury Minister's battle to scrap HS two is an interesting one | :27:46. | :27:52. | |
for the Telegraph. Warnings that the ?50 billion scheme of HS two, the | :27:53. | :27:57. | |
high-speed rail link does not represent value for tax-payers' | :27:58. | :28:00. | |
money. She is of course David Cameron's new Treasury Minister, who | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
is now wanting a dramatic re-think on the whole project. In the | :28:05. | :28:09. | |
Guardian they have a picture Nigel Farage and it says no MPs only one | :28:10. | :28:13. | |
policy. So had a where has Farrage got them rattled. | :28:14. | :28:36. | |
That's almost it, as part of our celebration of the birthday of | :28:37. | :28:43. | |
Shakespeare, Tom Hollander formed his favourite speech from Richard II | :28:44. | :28:51. | |
I, tonight Helen Mirren from act five scene two from Cleopatra. I | :28:52. | :28:56. | |
dreamed there was an Emperor Anthony, oh, such another sleep, | :28:57. | :29:04. | |
that I might see but such another man. His face was as the heavens, | :29:05. | :29:11. | |
and there in stuck a sumant moon that kept their course and lighted | :29:12. | :29:19. | |
the little "o" the earth. His legs bestrid the ocean, his reared arm | :29:20. | :29:29. | |
crested the world. His voice was as all the tune'd spheres and that to | :29:30. | :29:33. | |
friends but when he went to shake and quail the orb he was as rattling | :29:34. | :29:40. | |
thunder! For his pointy there was no winter in it and autumn it was that | :29:41. | :29:48. | |
grew the more by reaping his delights would often like. They | :29:49. | :29:52. | |
showed his back above the element they lived in. In his lids realms | :29:53. | :30:04. | |
and islands were as plate, dropped from his pocket. Think you there was | :30:05. | :30:32. | |
or might be such a man as this? Hello there, many places tomorrow | :30:33. | :30:36. | |
will start off cloudy and wet, but an improving picture throughout the | :30:37. | :30:39. | |
day, an area of low pressure down to the | :30:40. | :30:40. |