Copenhagen summit final day: Anna Chen on BBC World TV

Anna Chen speaks on BBC World TV "World Have Your Say" on the final day of the Copenhagen climate conference, Friday 18th December 2009. What has Copenhagen achieved?

Hosted by Ros Atkins. Also participating:
Daniel Mittler — environmentalist and blogger
Prabir Purkayasta — an energy analyst in Delhi
Isaac Mwaura — a development consultant in Nairobi
Julian L Wong — Senior Policy Analyst with the Energy Opportunity team at The Center for American Progress and blogger
Mark Kenber — Policy Director of The Climate Group and former adviser to Tony Blair

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See also Anna Chen speaks on BBC World TV on the opening day of the Copenhagen climate summit

Anna Chen writes on the start of the Copenhagen COP15 climate change summit

Copenhagen summit final day: Anna Chen on BBC World TV

Anna Chen speaks on BBC World TV "World Have Your Say" on the final day of the Copenhagen climate conference, Friday 18th December 2009. What has Copenhagen achieved?

Hosted by Ros Atkins. Also participating:
Daniel Mittler — environmentalist and blogger
Prabir Purkayasta — an energy analyst in Delhi
Isaac Mwaura — a development consultant in Nairobi
Julian L Wong — Senior Policy Analyst with the Energy Opportunity team at The Center for American Progress and blogger
Mark Kenber — Policy Director of The Climate Group and former adviser to Tony Blair

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Anna Chen speaks on BBC World TV on the opening day of the Copenhagen climate summit

Madam Miaow on the Copenhagen climate change summit

Top lawyer damns Blair as Bush sycophant over war

Today's Times carries a powerful article by Sir Ken Macdonald, director of public prosecutions between 2003 and 2008, that says Blair was drunk on power when it came to dragging us into the Iraq war, engaging in "an alarming subterfuge with his partner George Bush" and going on to "mislead and cajole the British people into a deadly war they had made perfectly clear they didn’t want".

"In this sense he was weak and, as we can see, he remains so. Since those sorry days we have frequently heard him repeating the self-regarding mantra that 'hand on heart, I only did what I thought was right'. But this is a narcissist's defence, and self-belief is no answer to misjudgment: it is certainly no answer to death."

But he warns that the Chilcot inquiry may turn out to be a whitewash.

"In British public life, loyalty and service to power can sometimes count for more to insiders than any tricky questions of wider reputation. It's the regard you are held in by your peers that really counts, so that steadfastness in the face of attack and threatened exposure brings its own rich hierarchy of honour and reward."

We all knew Blair had a weak character. Why couldn't his own party see it?

See Blair admits war lies

Top lawyer damns Blair as Bush sycophant over war

Today's Times carries a powerful article by Sir Ken Macdonald, director of public prosecutions between 2003 and 2008, that says Blair was drunk on power when it came to dragging us into the Iraq war, engaging in "an alarming subterfuge with his partner George Bush" and going on to "mislead and cajole the British people into a deadly war they had made perfectly clear they didn’t want".

"In this sense he was weak and, as we can see, he remains so. Since those sorry days we have frequently heard him repeating the self-regarding mantra that 'hand on heart, I only did what I thought was right'. But this is a narcissist's defence, and self-belief is no answer to misjudgment: it is certainly no answer to death."

But he warns that the Chilcot inquiry may turn out to be a whitewash.

"In British public life, loyalty and service to power can sometimes count for more to insiders than any tricky questions of wider reputation. It's the regard you are held in by your peers that really counts, so that steadfastness in the face of attack and threatened exposure brings its own rich hierarchy of honour and reward."

We all knew Blair had a weak character. Why couldn't his own party see it?

See Blair admits war lies

Nutcracker advent calendar

Now for a bit of culture. Try out this beautiful advent calendar which gives you a clip of the Nutcracker ballet every day up until Christmas.

Welcome to the Opus Arte Advent Calendar – an interactive calendar that celebrates the magic of The Nutcracker and celebrates Opus Arte’s 2009/2010 cinema season; a season that features the very finest opera, ballet, music and theatre from The Royal Ballet, The Royal Opera, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, King’s College Cambridge, Shakespeare’s Globe, Teatro Real, Madrid and the Liceu, Barcelona in cinemas across the country. To see where the Nutcracker is being performed this Christmas season please click on the link provided and enjoy the performances day-by-day!

Nutcracker advent calendar

Now for a bit of culture. Try out this beautiful advent calendar which gives you a clip of the Nutcracker ballet every day up until Christmas.

Welcome to the Opus Arte Advent Calendar – an interactive calendar that celebrates the magic of The Nutcracker and celebrates Opus Arte’s 2009/2010 cinema season; a season that features the very finest opera, ballet, music and theatre from The Royal Ballet, The Royal Opera, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, King’s College Cambridge, Shakespeare’s Globe, Teatro Real, Madrid and the Liceu, Barcelona in cinemas across the country. To see where the Nutcracker is being performed this Christmas season please click on the link provided and enjoy the performances day-by-day!