A taxing week
As usual on Fridays, I shall leave you in the more than capable hands of my co-presenter Anita Anand.
This was the week that all three main political parties offered different types of tax cuts to see us through these tough times.
We'll find out the true extent of the government's plans in the pre-Budget report in ten days' time.
But are tax cuts, speedier spending and deeper debt really going to pull us out of the recession? And which party is striking the right tune?
After a grim week when we discovered the truly horrific details of the death of Baby P and the stabbing of two young children in Manchester, we look at the state of our childcare services.
Also: can Gordon Brown really save the global financial system when he meets other world leaders at the G20 summit in Washington this weekend?
So, on today's programme we'll have:
• leader of the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg;
• Ian Johnson, Chief Executive of the British Association of Social Workers;
• leading Westminster journalist Daniel Finkelstein of the Times and Richard Reeves, director of the think tank, Demos;
• and, as ever, we'll have our Friday run-down of what's up and what's down in the political charts.
See you at noon on BBC Two or this website - and please leave your comments in the box below.
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