Tuesday 3 January 2012
Happy New Year! Tonight Newsnight returns to air after the Christmas break, with Jeremy Paxman taking the helm.
We will have reaction to the news that Gary Dobson and David Norris have been convicted of the racist murder of black London teenager Stephen Lawrence 18 years after the attack and be looking at the wider impact of the case.
Our guests include Martin Bashir who in 1999 interviewed all five men suspected of involvement in the killing for a key TV documentary and former justice minister Lord Falconer.
Peter Marshall is in Iowa where US Republicans bidding to challenge Barack Obama for the White House are set to face the first official test of the 2012 campaign, the Iowa caucuses.
We will be assessing the type of candidates on offer to Republican supporters this time round and who is likely to come out on top.
Our guests include Republican Fred Karger, the first openly gay candidate from a major political party to run for the US presidency.
The government has launched a review of risks from faulty breast implants amid new
evidence from a cosmetic surgery provider which has revealed that rupture rates on allegedly faulty French-made breast implants are seven times higher than previously thought. Susan Watts will report on this.
Plus we have an interview with acclaimed author Hisham Matar about his family's homeland Libya and the changes in the relationship between the Libyan diaspora and the Libyan authorities in the wake of Gaddafi's overthrow.
Join us at the usual time and place - 10.30pm on BBC Two.
Comment number 1.
At 16:40 3rd Jan 2012, JunkkMale wrote:We will have reaction to the news...
We will be assessing...
How did 'we' manage without it all these last few weeks?
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Comment number 2.
At 16:49 3rd Jan 2012, ecolizzy wrote:What a bloomin' good rant to start the new year with....
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2081428/Abdullah-Munawar-Howzat-Now-theyve-got-googlies.html
Happy New Year one and all, but sorry I don't think it will be!
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Comment number 3.
At 16:49 3rd Jan 2012, barriesingleton wrote:IS THIS THE SAME BARACK OBAMA WHO TOLD 'FOLKS' NOT TO QUESTION 9/11?
In the light of steadily accumulating evidence that NOTHING on that day was AS IT WAS MADE TO SEEM, thereafter further cosmetically enhanced by media presentation (and non-presentation) INCLUDING, UNFORGIVABLY, THE BBC, it would be nice to think Obama might be defeated, and replaced, by a NON-PUPPET, rather than one dangled by the covert Elite.
If Ron Paul is TRULY such a man, expect illness or death to intervene.
THIS IS THE AGE OF PERVERSITY – CONTINUED
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Comment number 4.
At 17:47 3rd Jan 2012, barriesingleton wrote:'THE FIRST OPENLY GAY CANDIDATE' - EDGY OR WHAT?
Wake me up when the first candidate, openly 'unenamoured' of male-male coupling, is announced.
Let's call a shovel a shovel, and not pretend it's a toothpick.
Oh look - I'm a heterosexual blog-poster!
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Comment number 5.
At 17:49 3rd Jan 2012, NollyPrott wrote:Bet as usual establishment propaganda Newsnight never even mention this guy !
https://rt.com/usa/news/ron-support-iowa-paul-147/
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Comment number 6.
At 18:04 3rd Jan 2012, barriesingleton wrote:OH HELP - RADIO 4 JUST TRIED TO SELL US 'BIG SOC' AS SAM'S IDEA! (6 pm)
How much more of this are we to be fed by the politicised media? Do I have to add this one to Dave Trismegistus's list of appalling deceptions and degradations?
DISMANTLE WESTMINSTER - INSTALL INTEGRITY
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Comment number 7.
At 18:06 3rd Jan 2012, Steve wrote:I am amazed that you will not be covering: "Severe winds send wheelie bin flying" an event so momentous that a video clip of it was featured on the highlighted bits on the BBC News UK webpage. I assumed nothing else can have happened today.
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Comment number 8.
At 19:09 3rd Jan 2012, Mistress76uk wrote:RIP Stephen Lawrence :o(
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Comment number 9.
At 19:24 3rd Jan 2012, Mistress76uk wrote:Just wait until the sentencing for Dobson & Norris is heard tomorrow. Since they were 16 and 17 at the time, they will be sentenced as JUVENILES......
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8974085/Stephen-Lawrence-murder-Gary-Dobson-and-David-Norris-found-guilty-18-years-after-racist-murder.html
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Comment number 10.
At 21:46 3rd Jan 2012, NollyPrott wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O1Z0IsNTFo
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Comment number 11.
At 22:53 3rd Jan 2012, C Gould wrote:I cannot believe you have Bashir on. He is the worse man in news media. For what he did to Michael Jackson he should be ashamed of himself. He should stay off my screen
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Comment number 12.
At 23:00 3rd Jan 2012, ecolizzy wrote:Come on in, the more the merrier
https://www.ukimmigration.com/news/2012-01-03/uk/uk-visas-for-pakistanis-issued-faster.htm
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Comment number 13.
At 23:07 3rd Jan 2012, Mistress76uk wrote:Outstanding debate by Jeremy with Lord Falconer et al on the Stephen Lawrence murder.
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Comment number 14.
At 23:14 3rd Jan 2012, NollyPrott wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNgqDl02_q0&list=UUHSj3d0E4bkCKjSk4bgpFTg&index=6&feature=plcp
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Comment number 15.
At 23:22 3rd Jan 2012, barriesingleton wrote:LET 'HIM' THAT IS WITHOUT SIN . . .
A 'fair mix' of humanity in the studio, talking piously of the dastardly differencism (prejudice) OF OTHERS. Are we to believe that not one of the chosen four has a 'default mode' that is something less than a saintly ACCEPTANCE OF DIFFERENCE?
I own to my differencism. As already posted: I prefer people like me. High time for posturing politicians and other exaulted ones to be equally candid - or withdraw from commenting on matters of differencism.
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At 23:46 3rd Jan 2012, NollyPrott wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chAZKzKQGLE
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Comment number 17.
At 02:00 4th Jan 2012, TV_As_Eyes wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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Comment number 18.
At 02:22 4th Jan 2012, TV_As_Eyes wrote:what's the problem with #17 mod's? the relationship was alluded to by Bashir.
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Comment number 19.
At 10:23 4th Jan 2012, nautonier wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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Comment number 20.
At 10:49 4th Jan 2012, barriesingleton wrote:PROBLEM FAMILIES - INTERVENTION. PROBLEM STATE - UNRESTRAINED.
Pondering the recent court judgement: Dave recently announced his intent to 'intervene' in problem families who generate criminal kids. But he seems unaware that the state swallows the child, soon after birth AND STATE IMPINGEMENT LASTS FOR ALL ITS FORMATIVE YEARS!
Is it me?
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Comment number 21.
At 11:58 4th Jan 2012, ecolizzy wrote:#19 Well thankfully nautonier I read your post before it was deleted, it sounded pretty true to me.
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Comment number 22.
At 12:37 4th Jan 2012, nautonier wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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Comment number 23.
At 12:49 4th Jan 2012, nautonier wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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Comment number 24.
At 13:24 4th Jan 2012, barriesingleton wrote:THE VALUE OF SKILLED MONITORING AND BENIGN INTERVENTION (#22 #20)
It is now well established: we have a PROBLEM PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTER. I propose INDEPENDENT observer/advisors should have access to all aspects of the BBC function, with a view to reducing wayward behaviour.
It is equally well established that Westminster is beyond our control, and behaving badly. Again: I propose INDEPENDENT observer/advisors should have access to all aspects of the Westminster function.
I am available pro bono.
POWER TO THE PEOPLE.
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Comment number 25.
At 13:32 4th Jan 2012, barriesingleton wrote:DO NOT PASS OVER THE LINK AT POST 14 - READ THE TITLE - WE ARE NEXT!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNgqDl02_q0&list=UUHSj3d0E4bkCKjSk4bgpFTg&index=6&feature=plcp
Then consider the 'Dominator Dave' profile, in detail - and think hard . . .
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Comment number 26.
At 13:45 4th Jan 2012, barriesingleton wrote:UK POLITICAL PARTIES ARE NOT ANSWERABLE TO ANYONE
How do I know? When you write to a political party, asking "DO YOU EXIST, AS AN ENTITY, UNDER THE RULE OF LAW?"
THEY DON'T ANSWER!!!
D MOCK CRASS Y RULES - DISMANTLE WESTMINSTER - INSTALL INTEGRITY
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Comment number 27.
At 14:04 4th Jan 2012, richard bunning wrote:What the Iowa Primary has shown us is that the Republican Party (and apparently most Iowans) appears to be populated with bigots, fanatics, loonytunes and the laughably superstitious religious nutters that characterise rightwing politics in the USA.
If this is the future of America, then it has no future. Creationism, religious bigotry, homophobia, racism and a rich vein of mysogeny are the lifeblood of this weird cocktail that is the majority of the population of Iowa.
Disagreeing with Obama is one thing - being prepared to vote for the Republican alternative is quite another. As the Tea Party influence melds with the bible belt zealots such a ludicrous and unelectable proposition is emerging in Iowa that I think we would expect the american people to write off the Republicans for a generation at the ballot box.
But I might be wrong - and if I am, then the libertarian smash-the-state policies of a Republican administration will seal the fate of the USA, whose status as the leading world power and reserve currency will come to an end in the collapse which their policeis will precipitate.
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Comment number 28.
At 14:11 4th Jan 2012, nautonier wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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Comment number 29.
At 14:16 4th Jan 2012, nautonier wrote:24.
At 13:24 4th Jan 2012, barriesingleton wrote:
THE VALUE OF SKILLED MONITORING AND BENIGN INTERVENTION (#22 #20)
I tried to reply to you but was blocked (28) - but I heartily agree with your comment
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At 14:17 4th Jan 2012, nautonier wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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Comment number 31.
At 14:32 4th Jan 2012, nautonier wrote:30
BBC won't let me propose one of those Parliamentary ? 'petitions' as seems odd on a politics blog?
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At 15:30 4th Jan 2012, nautonier wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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Comment number 33.
At 16:49 4th Jan 2012, JunkkMale wrote:'21. At 11:58 4th Jan 2012, ecolizzy wrote:
#19 Well thankfully nautonier I read your post before it was deleted, it sounded pretty true to me.
Looks like the all-singing, dancing, looking at, analysing editorial staff are not the only ones back and firing on all cylinders after the school hols.
The truth is out there, if not, as often as it might be hoped, here.
More's the the pity:(
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Comment number 34.
At 23:01 4th Jan 2012, mrindigenous wrote:Well the first over hyped news story of the year for the media to wax lyrical over.
Now why don't the BBC take a a step into the real world and come and ask what the majority white indigenous people think?, oh sorry no cant do that of course silly me!!, our opinions don't count, we just pay our taxes for the rights of the minorities to be up held.
Now lets see what the next story the BBC will be told to over hype by its boss"s "the sate".
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