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He's on the cover of Time magazine as King Kong storming the Empire State Building.

That is Rupert Murdoch. A man with a pretty insatiable need for

competition, for power, for money, for influence. He's a hero in New York, and he's the villain in

New York. If you can get the sun, then that was going to be politically helpful. He is not really

a Thatcherite at this point, and he becomes a Thatcherite because Thatcher is there, but it's also good copy.

She's using him and he's using her.

Ruper is a hard bastard, and he only respects you if you're a hard bastard, too.

You can do deals with Murdoch without saying the deal's being done.

And I kind of think that's where we were.

The man who has existed in opposition to the establishment

is creating a new system.

Murdoch is a man of method, a cold-eyed manipulator.

Everyone thinks they can be the one to get him to behave,

to stick to doing what he said he would.

It will never work.

Hi there, it's Anast here. Part two of our series on one of the most powerful men in recent memory, Rupert Murdoch, now continues.

This week we're looking at his involvement with British politics in the main at the end of the 20th century. First with Margaret Thatcher and then yes, my own interactions with him and Tony Blair and the way he chose to support us. Here's a clip from

that episode to hear the full thing and get the whole of the mini-series and the benefits of a

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