‘Chance to change the world’ lecture from BBC expert

Nov 1 2008 by Barry Gibson, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

AN expert on economics and American politics will give a lecture at Huddersfield University.

Peter Jay, former British ambassador to the US and BBC economics editor, will give a free talk on Monday, just hours before American voters go to the polls to choose a new president.

He will speak about globalisation at the Canalside West Lecture Theatre from 6pm.

Mr Jay said: “We are now presented with an exciting chance, perhaps for the first time in human history, to address a series of truly global and objective challenges. These can be met only by some kind of negotiated set of co-operative regimes, under which we can establish rules and institutions to govern our shared occupation of the planet.

“I have something to say about what those might be.”