As a member of the Launch KC task force, Hasenzahl has a ringside seat.

FORBES: The Startup Riding Google's Fiber-Optic Superhighway

MP, Mr Blair had a ringside seat as the left self-destructed again in the 1980s.

ECONOMIST: The Labour Party

The job gave her a ringside seat for such historic events as Ronald Reagan's first inauguration in 1981.

FORBES: Magazine Article

In my years as a New York political reporter, I had a ringside seat to the Koch phenomenon.

WSJ: Insufferable or irrepressible, Koch inspired NYC

Having a ringside seat at the eurozone crisis is to witness a torrent of daily comment about Europe and its troubled currency.

BBC: Euro crisis: a torrent of words, but no clarity

Malthus had a ringside seat to progress.

FORBES: Bad News Bear Grantham the Grim

Time to book a ringside seat.

BBC: Thursday 24 April