he went on to study classics at oxford university. a career in journalism followed with a stint in brussels for "the telegraph," where he relished mocking the european commsion. his profile was boosted by tv appearances. siboris johnson had set hits on a political career, and where better than the safeve conservaeat of henley upon thames? bueven back then, as alway -- as boris johnson tried to become the conservatives' candidate, the local party was divided over his talts. some were attracted to this slightly eccentric, larger-than-life personality. others were concerned about whether he could be taken seriously. >> what you e is what you get. you get the slightly disheveled look. it is appealing to a lot of people. we found that when campaigning with boris and when he was an mp, he would need people behind him to make everything happen. it would be the person with charisma, the person leading the charge. vicki: that is the approach he took when he was elected mayor of london in 2008. >> such an honor to have you here, mr. mayor. mr.

for bill kristol go ahead in oxford in oxford. here it's a case of same stuff different day from crystal i'm sorry to say. hey look this is a necessary point of view being put forward it has been put forward individually by a number of people and when you find people as disparate as rand paul and bernie sanders agreeing on american military foreign policy needed to take a backseat to american diplomatic foreign policy and i say that as a diplomat of 26 years experience with the u.s. foreign service then i think something good is blossoming here now if we're still worried about the koch brothers and show us you know half a 1000000 each that's that's a rounding error on their petty cash account sure hey they're not deeply invested here but there's certainly making a point of investing and i think there's a difference ok don you seem to be more of the skeptic on the program react to that . well 1st you know the objective conditions are such that imperial retreat is you know on the agenda of the ceci and trump represents that certainl

in oxford. i'm not particularly worried about the sources of funding i find it interesting that 2 such disparate sources have both decided this is a good idea but that doesn't stop me from thinking that it's a good idea too and looking at the contributors i see in andrew bass of each and there who's very much along my lines of sort of conservative libertarian on a lot of international issues i see parsi from georgetown with whom i agree on almost nothing but the whole idea i would think is to have people of various points of view coming together to discuss these issues and get people outside of their echo chambers that's wonderful e put don ok i'm going to start throwing some cold war or water on it here ok you have george soros in his relationship with the atlantic council a very you know that. is the mouthpiece of nato it's staunchly anti russian and if you look at the koch brothers they have been supporting this illegal who and venezuela i could go on and on ok and so i'm just happy i'm left

in oxford. i'm not particularly worried about the sources of funding i find it interesting that 2 such disparate sources have both decided this is a good idea but that doesn't stop me from thinking that it's a good idea too and looking at the contributors i see in andrew bass of each and there who's very much along my lines of sort of conservative libertarian on a lot of international issues i see parsi from georgetown with whom i agree on almost nothing but the. all idea i would think is to have people of various points of view coming together to discuss these issues and get people outside of their echo chambers that's wonderful don ok i'm going to start throwing some cold war out what water on it here ok you have george soros and his relationship with the atlantic council a very you know that is the mouthpiece of nato it's staunchly anti russian and if you look at the koch brothers they have been supporting this illegal who and venezuela i could go on and on ok so i'm i'm just happy i'm i'm le

for bill kristol go ahead in oxford in oxford. here yeah it's a case of same stuff different day from crystal i'm sorry to say look this is a necessary point of view being put forward it has been put forward individually by a number of people and when you find people as disparate as rand paul and bernie sanders agreeing on american military foreign policy needed to take a backseat to american diplomatic foreign policy and i say that as a diplomat of 26 years experience with the u.s. foreign service then i think something good is blossoming here now if we're still worried about the koch brothers and show us you know half a 1000000 each that's that's a rounding error on their petty cash account sure hey they're not deeply invested here but they're certainly making a point of investing and i think there's a difference ok don you seem to be more of the skeptic on the program react to that . well 1st you know the objective conditions are such that imperial retreat is you know on the agenda of the ceci and trump represents that certainl

alone among them in portland house on london's oxford street the 2 $1011.00 un back to libyan intervention came with a un backed libyan asset freeze 2 that meant that any libyan accounts in the u.k. were frozen and according to a report by a government committee the u.k. tax man could be scooping tax from those frozen assets the government said mick did that its own $17000000.00 pounds in tax on the frozen libyan assets in the process 3 years h.-m. revenue and customs that the tax man here won't reveal any more than mt and now some british politicians want that tax revenue to be put to good use the deputy head of northern ireland proxy because urged the prime minister to use those 17000000 pounds in tax collected from libyan assets in the u.k. to compensate the victims of libyan backed ira terrorism the prime minister will be aware be to be the long standing problem for justice and compensation by victims of the libyan. terrorism in northern ireland did throughout the u.k. u.s. citizens have been compensated by the libyan authorities but the u.k. should not that's unlikely say the. x. the

books including think tanks and power in foreign policy and foundations of the american century and an oxford we cross to see he is a senior policy consultant and british american security information council retired u.s. diplomat and an expert on strategic intelligence and.

books including think tanks and power in foreign policy and foundations of the american century and in oxford we crossed to ted see he is a senior policy consultant and british american security information council retired u.s. diplomat and an expert on strategic intelligence and conflict resolution all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate let me go to london. we were talking before this recording about the novelty of this quincy institute coming into being the media has commented on oh it's obviously because of the who's going to be funding it someone very much to the left and somebody very much to the right before we talk about the principles involved in it what do you think of the idea itself i mean it is coming out against endless war wars that do not need to be started in the 1st place i mean there is a need for it and i'm all for it i raise my hand in agreement we'll talk about what's problematic about it go ahead in london. yeah i think well when i read about it in the last couple of days i it was a surprising devel