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  • Newsnight
  • 5 Dec 07, 10:20 AM

Simon Enright is today's programme producer, returning to the Newsnight fold after a stint elsewhere in the 大象传媒. Here's his early email to the team.

Hello All,

Its good to be back - please do be gentle with me on my first day back in the big chair and I will try not to over commission...

There are stories but which can and should we make our own?

- Should sentencing be linked to the number of jail places?
- Expect HMRC to get a grilling over lost disks at the Treasury Select Ctte
- We also expect the new points system for immigration to be announced
- Are we donored-out or should we keep digging? It is PMQs today

Or should we go for an Economy special? I want to hear from Stephanie Flanders ahead of tomorrow's interest rate decision. Could we have a Hawk vs a Dove in debate? Could we have a piece to remind us what the last recession was like?

We could also slip in another 'where are they now' piece. Meirion/Jackie Long have an update on the money raised to help with Tsunami. Remember that? Have the Red Cross finally spent all the money raised three years ago? (Would I be asking that question if they had?)

Finally while Polish plumbers are coming over here you might be surprised to hear who we are exporting to Poland鈥adeleine Holt catches up with violinist and new Polish patriot Nigel Kennedy.

For those of you who don't know me I'm the one with the loud laugh.

Simon

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  • 1.
  • At 04:22 PM on 05 Dec 2007,
  • Faser wrote:

I know this isn't on your list of topics but I have been wondering.

Why is there suddenly a huge reward for the return of HMRC missing data CDs?

Has everyone forgotten just how simple it is to copy CDs?

If they did fall into the wrong hands, forget it - there are many, many copies now circulating. Getting the originals back will mean nothing.

  • 2.
  • At 04:31 PM on 05 Dec 2007,
  • neil robertson wrote:

Clearly Labour spin doctors want you to lull you into 'donor fatigue' and stopping digging ....... they have I see told the Bishop and the former Judge to postpone interviews as well.
Why not interview Michael Cashman as Mr Cameron suggested at today's PMQ?

And keep tracking Wendygate in Scotland - which they are also
desperately trying to spin ...

  • 3.
  • At 04:58 PM on 05 Dec 2007,
  • Adrienne wrote:

Newsnight should be covering this:

and it should be trying to draw out the causes and implications for the decline (however painful, and politically incorrect that may be). It should looked at in the context of Lynn & Vanhanen's work, the USA ETS report 2007, Leitch 2007, and John Raven's international standardisations of the Raven SPM/CPM.

As I've mentioned elsewhere, the UK DID compete in PISA 2000 and PISA 2003. It was excluded from some of the finer grain analyses because the sampling of schools/pupils by the UK bodies responsible for entering us, did not, rather ironically/conveniently meet the required PISA/OECD statistical standards!

Incidentally, the criminal fraternity has a mean IQ about 8 points below the national average, and education does not increase IQ, it just selects it.

  • 4.
  • At 05:12 PM on 05 Dec 2007,
  • Andy wrote:

The reporting on "donorgate" is rather tiresome - because the amounts of money and the people involved are all just so.. pathetic. And the media doesn't help when it refers to these acts as "breaching the rules" - why aren't you calling them criminal acts? GB had admitted there are criminals right at the top of the Labour Party. Why then, hasn't he sacked them all?

  • 5.
  • At 05:38 PM on 05 Dec 2007,
  • G P Coombe wrote:

Please keep the pressure up regarding these illegal donations. The government's adverting against Benefit Cheats says "no ifs and buts".
This does not appear to apply to some labour politicians and Party members. Please one law for all.

  • 6.
  • At 05:38 PM on 05 Dec 2007,
  • G P Coombe wrote:

Please keep the pressure up regarding these illegal donations. The government's adverting against Benefit Cheats says "no ifs and buts".
This does not appear to apply to some labour politicians and Party members. Please one law for all.

EDUCATION - DISTILLATION - DEGRADATION

鈥淐asualties of education鈥 was uttered by a cogent (lady) contributor on 鈥淣ewsnight鈥 (24th Oct 鈥06). Though I have often pondered and written in those terms, I had never heard the problem expressed on air, and have not since. Personally, in my school years, I fell right on the cusp of those uplifted and those confirmed-in-negation by the school experience. Consequently, I not only 鈥渒now of what I speak鈥 but am lucky to have acquired the skill to do so.
School takes a 鈥渕ash鈥 of mixed humanity and distils society鈥檚 spirited success-stories. These go on to run everything, including the proscribed lives of the 鈥渟ludge鈥 left behind by that distillation. The latter are 鈥渃asualties of education鈥 never fairly addressed, who go on to a life of crime and/or welfare at great cost to the "educated". It must say something about the smart ones that they still prefer to build prisons rather than lives.

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