Wednesday 24th September 2008
Here's tonight's output editor Shaminder Nahal with some thoughts on tonight's programme
In tonight's programme:
Ruth Kelly
Our Political Correspondent David Grossman really set the cat amongst the pigeons last night when he exclusively revealed that Ruth Kelly would be leaving the government in a reshuffle next week. The reaction was explosive . At a hastily convened press conference in a hotel foyer in Manchester at 3am, it was confirmed that the Transport Secretary would indeed be quitting the Cabinet. Our Political Editor Michael Crick has been investigating the sequence of events after Newsnight came off air which led to the extraordinary decision to announce Ruth Kelly's decision in the small hours of the morning.
Development
Gordon Brown chairs a UN meeting on the Millennium Development Goals tomorrow. We 're more than half way to the date when the targets are supposed to be met, and it's accepted that there's no way many of them will be. Maternal mortality is the issue occupying many people, as the number of mothers dying in childbirth in some countries has actually been going up. More money is needed from governments around the world - but how likely is that given the global economic crisis? Peter Marshall investigates.
Going cheap
We're rapidly becoming familiar with the " Aldi " Effect - the phenomenon whereby credit crunchees who used to shop at Waitrose go downmarket to Sainsburys, the Sainsburys lot head to Tescos and impoverished Tescos customers head to the eponymous German food discount chain. But just how big a phenomenon is it? Stephen Smith goes downmarket.
Colony Club
As crowds flock to the Francis Bacon show at Tate Britain, a less happy spectacle is going on at the club which Bacon made his own. The Colony Room in Soho is threatened with closure. It has to be one of the seediest spots in Britain, yet it was the breeding ground for some of the most internationally important artists of the post war years. Madeleine Holt, reports on an eleventh hour bid to save the club for posterity.
Join Jeremy Paxman at 10:30 tonight for all that and more.
Comment number 1.
At 24th Sep 2008, LarsonsMum wrote:What happened to ASDA in the 'Aldi effect' chain?
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Comment number 2.
At 24th Sep 2008, LarsonsMum wrote:Surely labour knew that if cabinet re-shuffle leaks got out, they'd have to bring forward this announcement - they should have included it in the coference speeches, thus saving themselves from being pushed into it by Jeremy? Who says Hoon wants to go to Europe, anyway?
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Comment number 3.
At 24th Sep 2008, JadedJean wrote:LarsonsMum (#1) I give up. Is it the Israeli connection? Subliminal advertising like all the Israeli-eligible citizen types who keep opining on the programme? What I can't understand is why there are so few British Chinese people on the programme (or in the House of Lords) as they also comprise 0.5% of the British population. But nearly 10% of the House of Lords are the other minority group. But that's democracy and its inequality I guess?
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Comment number 4.
At 24th Sep 2008, barriesingleton wrote:NOT LIKE YOU JADED JEAN
Don't give up JJ! Your persistence, in the face of impossible odds, is all that is keeping me going. I have to hang on until they legalise euthenasia - I don't want to do anything illegal . . .
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Comment number 5.
At 24th Sep 2008, stevio wrote:What Newsnight should be asking is if the banks can be bailed out with $700 billion, then why can't the same funds be given to other projects ie solve world poverty and climate change, after all it's only manmade money. Or do only rich people/organisations meet this criteria. Capitalism sucks.
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Comment number 6.
At 25th Sep 2008, thegangofone wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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Comment number 7.
At 25th Sep 2008, NewFazer wrote:NOT LIKE YOU BARRIE (#4)
I fear for you Barrie, all this rocking and weeping and now talk of euthanasia.
Perhaps you should find a distraction (I say this to JJ also). Like me, I believe that you may not have too many more years left to run so, like me, get out there and enjoy them. Too much time spent staring doom in the face can be wearing. Sell the house, buy a narrow boat. Eschew broadband and associated blogs. Smell the flowers, stare at the trees.
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Comment number 8.
At 25th Sep 2008, Mistress76uk wrote:Barrie - do not even think about euthanasia - we'd miss you too much!
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Comment number 9.
At 25th Sep 2008, Mistress76uk wrote:Jeremy was brilliant - as always - particularly with Simon Rosenburg and Brad Blakeman last night on John McCain's proposal to halt the debate and instead unite to try to solve the financial crisis.
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Comment number 10.
At 25th Sep 2008, barriesingleton wrote:DON'T KNOCK THE ROCK!
Hi NewFazer! I did a dozen or so years of 'distraction' through the dating sites, after my divorce. I have enough memories (and good friends) to sustain me through the bouts of rocking and weeping so fear not!
Just treat me with contempt, the way Newsnight treats our views, and the Golden Age of Golden Brown will be here before you know it; meanwhile I shall feel nurtured.
I walk almost daily past narrow boats and am, indeed, drawn to them as a lifestyle. But my 'starter home' (more 'finisher' in my case) is on River Walk with water, fish, foul and folk drifting by, and a good chance of opening my curtains to see pen, cob and cygnets (6 this year) majestically passing. A good substitute.
Hellooooooooo 76! What can I say? And I thought you only had words for man-of-peace Paxman. I am resolved to stay a little longer. . .
Thank you friends.
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Comment number 11.
At 25th Sep 2008, JadedJean wrote:REINFORCING THE LIE
NewFazer (#7) "Perhaps you should find a distraction (I say this to JJ also). Like me, I believe that you may not have too many more years left to run so, like me, get out there and enjoy them. Too much time spent staring doom in the face can be wearing. Sell the house, buy a narrow boat. Eschew broadband and associated blogs. Smell the flowers, stare at the trees.
Too much time spent staring doom in the face can be wearing."
You old hippie. Have you turned sub-prime (equity release was yet another way to make money) mortgage broker? Isn't that precisely how we got into this anarchistic mess in the first place?
Surely entropy and dysgenesis are natural forces which we have to actively work against. Where's your socialist spirit?
Having watched and listened to Nicola Horlick opining on regulation last Friday I kept getting disturbing flashes . They make up their reality and try to entice others to live in it with them. Be wary of Lilithian bearing panaceas (and then blaming others when the don't deliver).
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Comment number 12.
At 25th Sep 2008, bookhimdano wrote:'rich nations'
interesting belief. wealth belongs to an oligarchy in something like an 80 20 split. ie 80% of the wealth is with 20% of the people. Like the agricultural subsidy goes mainly to millionaires.
so the nations bit belongs to the poor 80% and the rich bit to the 20% .
so all nations are 'poor'.
no wonder people who believe in 'rich nations' are always frustrated because its a false belief.
still. more heat than light that results in a frustrated anger makes for good tv? Very daily mail?
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