19/10/2010

As a review of the UK's defence capabilities is released, Nicky asks the Defence Secretary Liam Fox whether we would any longer have the capability or the resources to launch a task force as we did during the Falklands conflict. And Eric Grove, Professor of Naval History and a Director of International Security and War Studies at the University of Salford offers his analysis.

The teacher who described state schools as "utterly chaotic" in a speech at the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham has left her job at a school in south London. Katherine Birbalsingh tells Shelagh about what she feels needs changing about the education system.

Plus the French oil blockades rumble on - Thierry Dedieu from the CFDT union explains why the French are unhappy about raising the retirement age - to 62.

And the Reverend Jesse Jackson compares the divisions in US and UK society, as he campaigns to make sure that police stop and search powers are not used in a discriminatory way.