let‘s talk to drjames summers who‘s law lecturer at lancaster university. what is vladimir putin to you? well, ina sense, what is vladimir putin to you? well, in a sense, what he is doing is giving his side of the story. if they are considered to be tru agents then what they well be telling are there other stories. perhaps they we re there other stories. perhaps they were here for business or tourism, and we will see a sort of fleshing out of that cover story that those agents had developed around them.- you think the two men that suddenly available look anything like the cctv images were looking at? available look anything like the cctv images were looking aflm available look anything like the cctv images were looking at? it may well be, we may well see those agents. they will tell them the identities they have assumed and those identities of petrol and bishoo wrath will be and you will hear more in essence this is not necessarily bad publicity, of course vladimir putin has been chosen to be associated with previous individuals linked with association. we

joining me now is dr carolyn downs who is a gambling expert from lancaster university. does it send a big message? the gambling industry in the uk made over £13 billion profit last year so it is not a of money to william hill. we have a previous fine last year of over 7 million to 888 four very similar reasons for not spotting problem gamblers are getting deeper into debt. in both cases there was an issue with gamblers were using money that was not theirs, they had stolen it. it isa not theirs, they had stolen it. it is a big issue and i am not sure it sends a big message, it sends a message that the gambling commission are doing theirjob but this has been going on for years. since regulatory changes in 2007. they are taking action now but they could be taking action now but they could be taking more action and i would not be surprised if we see more finds like this later this year. taking action is one thing but are they taking it seriously? the public health aspect of gambling.” taking it seriously? the public health aspect of gambling. i do not think they are. i r

i‘m nowjoined by dr mark garnett, senior politics lecturer at lancaster university and a a conservative party watcher. thank you forjoining us this afternoon. how high were the expectations this year for her speech? i think the only real expectation was that the speech would be less disastrous than last year‘s effort. she has an awful lot of very difficult problems on her plate, doing better than last year was relatively simple. and she certainly exceeded them, as you say. but how did she do that, what went well for her, beyond the fact that she didn‘t get presented with a pas and she didn‘t get presented with a pa5 and the letters behind her didn‘t fall down? i think she did relatively well, penny will be divided on her decision to dance onto the stage. in the conference hall it was bound to get the audience feeling sympathetic towards her, and once that was achieved, i think the rest of the speech in a sense wrote itself. the best way to rally the troops behind her was to remind them of how much they dislike jeremy corbyn. she could also get some applause by ruling out repeate

vice—chancellor of lancaster university. a review, is that the way forward? it looks as though with the political situation in review is necessary. there are a lot of issues a review can deal with. while stability is something that we would really like, given the politically charged nature of the funding of higher education, i think a review is one way of looking at it. there are many questions which the review can deal with. we heard about the level of the fee. one thing that needs to be very carefully remembered is that in the reforms that happened in 2012, won the £9,000 fees were developed, it was effectively a change whereby universities thereby had to look after themselves. capital grants we re after themselves. capital grants were scrapped at the same time, and they helped universities to run. that £9,000 was meant to be a cap. not a target. that is right. it was originally meant to be a cap. if you look at the latest data, if you take all of the courses across the english sector and look at what they are running out, the sector as a whole runs at a