On the evening walk back to the residence my briefcase stuffed with papers or try to slow myself down

Sometimes even stop I sometimes stared at the light against the columns

the regal mass of the White House.

In moments like these, I would wonder at the strange path and the idea that had brought me

to this place.

A promised land, volume one of Barak Obama's that had brought me to this place. A Promised Land,

volume one of Barak Obama's deeply personal memoir

is available in paperback now.

BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like developing offshore wind, and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea.

It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain.

Well today we're mostly in oil and gas.

We increased the proportion of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon

and other transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in

2023. VP.com slash and not all. with me Theo Usherwood. On today's episode we marked 25 years since

Vladimir Putin came to power as Prime Minister and then President of Russia.

How has he changed the country? How has power changed him? And what should the West be expecting for the future?

We'll speak to the man who wrote a biography of the Russian leader, our former ambassadors

to the country and international relations are experts. First though, it's time for this.

The columnists. And today to go through the day's big stories and the small ones I'm joined by

journalist and author Tamandra Harkness and Scarlet McGuire director at the

Polster JL partners and I'm told it's Scarlet's birthday happy birthday

Scarlet thank you thank you I'd actually forgotten so that's quite I mean I had

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