The Glass Box for Tuesday
In the PM office we meet every night after the programme in this Glass Box:
We talk about the content of the programme and try to give an honest assessment of what worked and what didn't...the things we missed and the places where our ambitions were not met. THIS virtual glass box you are looking at is where you are invited - indeed encouraged - to be honest about our hour. Members of the production team will read it, and the editor should comment too. Click on The Glass Box link on the right of the page to read previous entries.
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It looks like someone has brought in the sticky labels to put names on your Secret Santa presents. How exciting!
Ah good, managed to get a seat next to the table, for the quadlatte! Thanks, Eddie.
502'ed once
Will you be covering Israel's violent incursion into Gaza?
Salaam/Shalom/Shanthi/Dorood/Peace
Namaste -ed
Many thanks for the great show. Perhaps you could follow up the report on the new ideas for schools by asking a few teachers to comment.
They work so hard already and have had less than inflation pay rises for the last three years and now will have to go through the pressure of the government saying they could work harder.
I would be very interested in getting Ed Balls to answer the questions of a real teacher.
When it comes to detaining anyone, even someone who may have sought to blow us all to bits, we should not forget that unless it is the intention to detain anyone with dark hair and brown eyes, if enough evidence to justify a charge has not been gathered then more than 7 days is highly questionable. 28 days is, surely, more than enough. Further, using 'ordinary speak' 28 days is 4 weeks, or just short of a month; 42 days is 6 weeks - which is also nearly the length of school summer holidays - or a month and a half; 90 days is nearly 13 weeks, or over 3months. 6 weeks from today will be 22nd January 2008. Rather a long time away....
Cassassa @6, and let's not forget that probably those who are incarcerated without being given any information about what they are meant to have done wrong are unlikely to be told how long they will be held for, unlike those known to have been guilty of an offence, who have been tried and sentenced.
No scratching out each day towards release on a calendar on the wall of the cell.
Question: is any increase in the length of time people can be held without charge going to be retrospective?
I was last night's editor. Thanks for your comments. Ed (3): you might want to listen this evening when we are planning to run an update on the Annapolis peace process.
Jasper (7),
Thanks for the reply. Have you actually read the "Road Map" ? Do you imagine anyone can consider it a basis for peace?
and, take the trouble to read the Israeli "reservations"
../roadmapreservations.htm
I look forward to tonight's piece, and thanks for the 'heads up'.
Salaam/Shalom/Shanthi/Dorood/Peace
Namaste -ed
Jasper (7),
Thanks for the reply. Have you actually read the "Road Map" ? Do you imagine anyone can consider it a basis for peace?
and, take the trouble to read the Israeli "reservations"
../roadmapreservations.htm
I look forward to tonight's piece, and thanks for the 'heads up'.
Salaam/Shalom/Shanthi/Dorood/Peace
Namaste -ed