Hello, I'm Matt Chorley and this is Politics Without the Boring Brits. We'll be back with brand new episodes in the new year.

But today I wanted to revisit our series, The Political Editors, where I spoke to Times journalists who between them had had a ring-sized seat at some of the biggest events

of the last half century. There were seven episodes all available again from today, and in this

first episode, it's Fred Emery, who started writing for the Times in the 1970s.

I don't think that other people in the world would share the view that there is mounting chaos. Where there is discord, may we bring harmony.

Without a way!

It is time to put up or shut up.

A new dawn and broken, I don't know.

This is a decisive moment for the world economy.

Now the decision has been made to leave, we need to find the best way.

Nothing has changed.

Nothing has changed.

I have been repeatedly assured that there was no party.

Growth, growth and growth.

Some mistakes were made.

Half a century of politics told by the people who wrote the first draft of history for the Times.

This is The Political Editors.

On episode one, Fred Emery on covering Vietnam Watergate and becoming political editor for the fall of Callahan and the

rise of Thatcher from 1977. For the unions to have done that, you know, not to be able

to bury the dead properly and all those things that refuse not being collected within

the winter of discontent. Callahan had, I won't say, deceived many of the correspondence,

but certainly his press people excited us all to think that there was going to be an election the previous autumn.

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