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Dear Newsnight

Instead of custodial sentences for non violent crime why not put them in labour gangs to work in undesirable places like the sewers. Wouldnt 10 years working in a sewer be a real deterrent ie to White collar criminals?

Re Rove, it reminds me that all politics ends in failure, that is unless Politicians try to serve others and not themselves

re Rove, I have my own private view about him which I would not wish to share, people will have different views but as a Christian, and in common with anyone who has a faith, at the end of our lives believe /know we will be held to account for the way we have behaved and treated others,

Bob

Did Evan Davies call Fiona Bruce 'Sophie' on the 10 tonight? if he did 'off with his head'.

I wonder if the American people realise how lucky they are. Even if their own TV stations don't cover American politics, they must be chuffed to bits that the 大象传媒 Domestic service in the UK - both the "flagship" 10 pm news & Newsnight have covered Karl Rove's resignation. And Newsnight has covered it in such detail that the people in the UK will be more enlightened about a person who is absolutely irrelevant to the UK.
On a day when a large stretch of a main UK motorway was shut for the best part of 24 hours due to a gun crime. A gun crime which has gotten less attention on UK TV than the gun incident in Virginia, US a few months ago. There really is no point to the 大象传媒 any more. Can it be shutdown? PLEASE?

So another party-before-country (and, by implication, party-before-humanity) Republican makes the tired old excuse of needing to spend more time with his family and appears to depart the political scene.

What I find unfathomable is how this odious man, an apprentice of Donald Segretti's "dirty tricks" operation during the nadir of Watergate is feted by Republican commentators for "his many years of public service".

Surely "public service" is serving the widest possible community without consideration for anyone's political leanings, sexual orientation or (quasi-)religious philosophy.

Throughout his period at the side of George W. Bush, Rove has practised the most venal "winner takes all" variety of party politics, whilst being party to to demonising of the gay community as well as Muslims and the exploitation of fear and prejudice through the Evangelical Christian movement.

I live in hope that the committees investigating the various abuses of power in the White House don't take their foot off the pedal just because the President's Brain (Could there be the possibility of being damned with fainter praise? I have things living in my fridge that are more intelligent than this "president"!) has chosen to retreat back to Texas to the bosom of his family.

Over 3500 American servicemen will never get the opportunity to make such a gracious exit and Rove should be forced to carry the shared guilt of their unnecessarily shortened lives to his grave, as should the rest of the people who created the myth of WMD to support an illegal carpet-bagging war - a war that has made America less safe and detracted from the real need to counter religious fundamentalism and the politics of hate and intolerance.

Each Briton uses 750Tonnes of CO2 in a lifetime. Equivalent to 620 flights between London and New York,theOptimum Population Trust warns. If CO2 is the prime factor in global warming why is it that the exploding world population[ 6billion in 2000,6.6 billion in 2006 ] is not taken into account as the biggest threat to the planet Earth today.

On the item about sewers this evening, on a few occassions it was mentioned that "unless we take positive steps to protect ourselves" we would all be liable to flooding. No suggestions as to what those steps would be were proposed. Come on Newsnight - give us something to work for don't just scaremonger!

The Sewer item.
No, No, for pity's sake NO!
Don't start putting even more background music with your documentaries. Steve Smith's treatment of the subject of our inadequate urban sewers that are unlikely to cope with new climatic conditions was casually ill-mannered.
But intentionally so, to his rather manic yet very polite little colleague, weather forecaster Dan Corbett.
But the item had an overall tenor, that made me hope not to have to witness his reportage of anything again.
Just what production cost did that sound-track add to the item I wonder?
Overall, It's a dreadful galloping disease trend throughout such productions that needs to be stopped right now as excessive aural sewerage, along with its visible counterpart; that super-hype, visual-link animation rubbish, that so often tastlessly wrecks the end of sober or heart-rending programmes. Come on the Beeb, renew your old standards of good taste!

Does Newsnight have a product placement deal with Special Brew or were you just trying to make the Heathrow protestors look like a bunch of crustie wasters?

You should have challenged George Monbiot about flying over here to take part in the protest. Gore, Monbiot, Livingstone et al continually lecture us about flying whilst happily jetting around the planet themselves.

For the first time in months John Redwood gave "Newsnight" a bloody nose...Kirsty Wark tried to interrupt his flow many times with pro Labour jibes...he just walked (talked) all over her..lets see more of this from the Tories.

Sir, Re the Heathrow protests, did Kirsty have to be so heavy on the protester? She reminded me of a shock horror front page in the Sun.'Are you going to be violent?' and 'do you intend climbing the perimiter fence? and the standard get out of the establishment....'do you condemn any violent action by the protesters' Kirsty has to be fair and even-handed and what these people are doing is worthwhile and necessary. Kirsty and I would not scale perimeter fences in a million years but some people, mainly young and worried about what legacy we are going to leave to our grandchildren deserve some measure of support with what is ranged against them. Heathrow does not need another T5, we have to look at this again. Kirsty obviously flies three times a week. Sincerely, Steven Calrow.

The ubiquitous Steve Smith descends into the olfactory underworld to wander the wet halls of nasty Neptune?

Did our modern Mayhew, wading down some deep warm passage,hope to startle some mermaids or Morlochs only to see there, scrawled on the wall in large letters, 'Harry Lime was here'?

Has the use of road travel been taken into account. i.e. journeys to and from Heathrow and the amount of CO spewed out? It would make more sense to make use of other airports around London - such as Stanstead.
The proposed expansion has a protest from the local NIMBYs. There is now an enviromental awarenes amongst those happy to travel to Heathrow or Gatwick airports by motorway rather than the one on their doorstep.

My colleagues & I fly on business frequently. The drive up and down the country to London is a regretable CO2 contribution. We try and avoid London if at all possible but the lack of destinations from provincial airport limits our choices. We would much rather see an expansion at Bristol, Exeter, Cardiff airports and break the BAA monopoly.

I was initially a bit taken aback by the description of Conservative voters as "the blue rinse brigade". Then I realised that the reporter was Robin Brandt who famously described Conservative voters on Today in the following terms "Most of them are over sixty. They鈥檙e white, they鈥檙e middle class. I was thinking earlier perhaps half of them can鈥檛 hear without the aid of something mechanical." 大象传媒 - biased? Whatever gave me that impression.

I wish i had time to protest, and there are a lot of things i would like to protest about, sadly i am to busy working, no cheques from mummy and daddy were ever sent to keep my sorry arse afloat so i could concern myself fully with the burgeoning bogus enviromentalist cause and having the chance to walking around a field with a dreddlock hairdo and a dog called lentil at my side; i'll be the lone protester for the 'airport expansion plans' to be built with my placard in hand, waving it in the air and breathing in those burnt aviation noxious fumes, who is with me on this noble cause of winding up the enviromentalist?...anybody?

Paul Holden is right. The 大象传媒 used to be a repository of serious news comment and analysis. Not any more. Stereotyping is OK sometimes if it's based on fact but when did anybody outside the 大象传媒's making-things-up department last use blue rinses? It's all blonde streaks these days isn't it? And on stereotyping can the 大象传媒 stop describing John Redwood and anyone else who disapproves of the EU as 'hard-right' as if it were some kind of crime? You can leave that to your very ex social affairs editor whose rant in the Guardian (not of course having read Redwoods's paper) was typical of the genre. It would have been helpful to our understandng if you had done the interview after the paper had been published instead of as John Kelly pointed out making a complete hash of getting the 大象传媒's retaliation in first.

One of the problems with journalism is that too many journalists aren't subject matter experts. Monbiot has made this point in the past with respect to climate science coverage.

Kirsty reinforces that point when she throws at Monbiot the "fact" that "according to NASA now 1998 is no longer the hottest year, 1934 was; so surely there are still arguments to be had over climate change".

No there aren't any arguments to be had.

A brief bit of research into that "fact" shows that it relates to the US and not to the Global Temperature record and, moreover, the revelation takes what was previously a statistical tie between the two years and turns it into...a statistical tie between the two years. It makes not one bit of difference to the overall trend.

I realise that Monbiot talked around the point and it ended up being somewhat incidental to the piece but it's not helpful to have journalists of Kirsty's calibre contributing to the confusion with this type of sloppy reporting.