Hello, this is Jeremy Bowen, the International Editor of BBC News and I'm here because I want

to talk to you about an event I'm doing with Intelligent Squared on the 2nd of November in London

and I'm going to be talking about the more than 30 years that I've spent reporting on major

events in the Middle East with my great friend and colleague over many, many years just in web

and I'm sure we'll talk about a few other things as well, just in and I started at the BBC

on the same day in 1984. So if you'd like to join us either in person or online, then visit

IntelligentSquared.com to find out more.

Welcome to Intelligent Squared. I'm Senior Producer Connor Boyle. For our debate today,

we're dipping into another preview taster from our new podcast Versus, for which there's loads

of great debate content to listen through. Versus is a show that settles those little debates that

are always a big deal to someone. Today's debate puts two major cities head-to-head. It's London

Versus New York. If you enjoy the discussion, head over to the Versus feed. That's the letters of

VS and hit follow to enjoy new episodes of Versus every week. Here's our host Coco Kahn with more.

Hello and welcome to Versus, the podcast that finally settles the little debates that are always

a big deal to someone. I'm Coco Kahn and this week our someones are Simon Jenkins and Anthony

Scaramucci, two people with a love for city life but for two quite different urban metropolis.

Simon Jenkins is a regular newspaper columnist and formerly editor of the Evening Standard

and the Times newspapers. He used to chair the National Trust, the UK's foremost heritage

organization and he literally wrote the book on his home city of London. That is a short history

of London in all good bookshops now. Anthony Scaramucci is a financier and a founder of

Skybridge Capital. He's also known as the Mooch. You may remember him as former White House Director

of Communications for a record 11 days and he's been described by one newspaper as being

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