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  • Newsnight
  • 29 Jan 08, 12:56 PM

Robert Morgan is today's programme producer..

Hello everyone,

There are some good stories around today. Derek Conway, Brown meeting European leaders tonight to discuss financial stability and regulation post-SocGen and Northern Rock, surveillance and the Florida primaries. Do come to the meeting armed with ideas on how to do all these and any other stories.

Food
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These words sum up Michael Pollan’s In Defence of Food. Humans used to know how to eat well, Pollan argues. But the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused, complicated, and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists - all of whom have much to gain from our dietary confusion. As a result, we face today a complex culinary landscape dense with bad advice and foods that are not ‘real’. We've got Michael Pollan in debate with the Chief Scientist at the FSA and a director from the Food and Drink Federation. It will be a Newsnight Bookclub too.


SILBURY HILL FILM
It's a mystery which has baffled historians for centuries. Silbury Hill is a man-made monument looming over the plains of Wiltshire, built out of chalk some four-and-a-half thousand years ago. According to myth, a long-lost king was buried in it with a golden statue of his horse; either that, or it’s a homing beacon for UFOs! Many have tunnelled into the hill looking for answers - so much so that it was in danger of falling in on itself. In the past few months, archaeologists have uncovered extraordinary new findings. But this latest dig will also be the last: English Heritage has decided to close the hill up to preserve it. Newsnight recorded the last images inside Silbury Hill before it's sealed up for good. Stephen Smith reports.

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Michael Crick's blog on Derek Conway made depressing reading. Depressing yet compelling.

I also look forward to the 'food' debate.

Michael Crick's blog on Derek Conway made depressing reading. Depressing yet compelling.

I also look forward to the 'food' debate.

  • 3.
  • At 02:16 PM on 29 Jan 2008,
  • Bob Goodall wrote:

Dear Mr Morgan

I'm appalled that when there are so many important issues the "Freddie" affair seems of most importance to some MPs,

should it feature anywhere and why in the scheme of things,

what does this say the politics in this country?

and if so much time and attention is being spent on this does it suggest that it is because it might possibly be a convenient way to take our minds off some very serious things happening at the moment maybe those making the decisions might not know what to do or want the heat taken off them for a bit?

otherwise they might want to refocus the nation on what is really important and needs to be tackled?

Instead lets all blame freddie and all will be well............

I dont think-
best wishes
Bob

  • 4.
  • At 04:39 PM on 29 Jan 2008,
  • Ray Rogers wrote:


Has anyone ascertained whether or not Derek Conway's sons declared their "earnings" for tax purposes?

  • 5.
  • At 04:41 PM on 29 Jan 2008,
  • Ray Rogers wrote:


Has anyone ascertained whether or not Derek Conway's sons declared their "earnings" for tax purposes?

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