Hello and welcome to the powerful and the damned episode of Slate Money, your guide to the

Business and Finance News of the week. I'm Felix

I'm one of Axios. I'm here with Emily Peck of Huffpost. Hello. I'm here with Anna

Shemanski of Breaking Views. Hello. And we are here with Lionel Barber, the former editor of

the Financial Times. Lionel, welcome. You have a new book out. What is it?

Tell us all about it. Hello, Felix. Good to be with this distinguished group. The book is

private diaries of my time as editor, 2005 to 20, and it's up close and personal with people of power in politics, business,

and finance from Silicon Valley through to Beijing via Moscow with Putin and some British politicians

like David Cameron, one of the biggest failures of the 21st century.

This is one thing we can definitely agree on here

at Slate Money is that David Cameron was terrible. We are going to talk a little bit about him and

other powerful men and the occasional powerful woman. We're going to talk about the media and

whether it's important for news organizations to make a profit. We are going to have a whole Slate Plus segment

about Nick Clegg,

who is a UK politician turned Facebook Spind Doctor.

We are going to drop some news about Anna Shemansky.

This is coming up at the end of the episode.

So stay tuned.

A jam-packed episode coming up on

Slate Money. This book was really interesting to read as the fun notes of a journalist up close

to the seat of power in so many different ways over such a long period.

And you got to meet with so many powerful people.

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