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Re Mohammed Al Fayed, his driver was drunk in charge and, without Diana having HRH status, he was responsible for her safety.

Clunk click.

Reference "draft weapons dossier". As na
OAP who has served in the Royal Engineers I often wonder who is running the USA, and why in heavens name we ever let ourselves be guided by American "inteligence"!!

Dear Newsnight

Its quite fair to mutualise Northern Rock, with the customers interests being represented by the Government.

It will probably get a return on its investment while protecting the financial services industry,

banks should reconsider suggesting a problem may exist in terms of NR having an unfair competitive edge,

ie the Government had to do this to protect itself from taking a significant hit on this,

it had to intervene in the first place to protect the whole banking system in the UK,

the reality is that NR will not be allowed to undermine other banks

so I suggest the other banks stop the briefings to this effect,

some may come from aggrieved predators, but the press need to say this,

isnt the problem really in terms of the Governments reputation management the past undermining of the independence of the civil service information section so that when a reasonable message needs to be conveyed this has become nigh on impossible,

the Government needs to rid itself of its spin doctors who are preventing it from giving a good account of itself in the media

just my thoughts,

best wishes
Bob

There are two phrases that make me switch off any news programme as soon as I hear them:

(1) At the McCartney divorce hearings...

(2) At the Diana Death inquest ....

Paxman's worst interview to date.

What's he doing wasting airtime on the tories about Nothern Rock just because he doesn't like the personality involved, while Yvette Cooper sits there just watching?

I'm worn out with Jeremy Paxman's personal hang-ups.

Re. Northern Rock. Why and so many references, over the past couple of days on the 大象传媒 as well as on tonight's programme, to past nationalisations as disasters? I'm actually feeling quite nostalgic for the days of nationalised intdustry - I find trains have become more expensive and more unreliable, the post only arrives once a day now instead of twice and often goes missing, and I am constantly being hassled a the door to switch electricity and gas suppliers. I can't help feeling that nationalisation is being referred to as if it is self-evidently a bad thing for all of us, with no argument or evidence that this is actually the case. Funny really, that this is coming from the 大象传媒.

Had to stop surfing net to concentrate on Jeremy's interview with - was it John Williams? - who wrote draft of JIC report.
Wow!! an interviewee just telling it like it is (or rather was). No hesitating, no repetition, no avoiding the question. Just telling it much as we always knew it to be - minus the inside information and intelligence which he provided.
What a breath of fresh air!
You could usefully build a programme around this guy and his observations.
Wonderful!

Hi Newsnight
re tonight

spin doctorers again!!

why dont we all try an experiment with a brave new world where people tell the truth and spin doctoring is no longer seen as acceptable in modern democratic Government,

Bob

I have just finished watching newsnight and feel a real sense of shock at the manner in which the Diana inquest news item was presented. I myself hold no real opinion regarding the death of Dodi and Diana. I feel that regardless of the "shocking" content of Mohammed Al Fayed's statements, for the item to be presented as a cartoon is wholly inappropriate. This is an inquiry into the death of a member of the royal family and her partner in a court with differing opinions leading to a final judgment. Newsnight has an obligation to present these proceedings objectively. You should work hard towards this ideal,otherwise you denigrate your profession.

Re the Diana Inquest coverage.

Whoever decided to present this item tonight complete with cartoons clearly has a very dark sense of humour. Three people died a decade ago in tragic circumstances.

Newsnight chose the tabloid line of cheap thought and I congratulate all of you on the team for using the efforts of the admirably named "Royal Correspondent" Peter.....errr.. Hunt.

Rank, cheap, puerile. Frankly I am surprised Mohamed Al Fayahd didn't punch him

"A few minutes ago David Cameron called for Alistair Darling to be removed from his post. Where does all this leave the government's reputation for economic competence?"

The high priests of financed have been defrocked and the naked truth revealed. So now the government is competing against privately owned banks in what is clearly an unfair competitive advantage having a limitless supply of money at its disposal which it can obtain from the tax coffers or just print. If it succeeds, it will rob legitimate successful entrepreneurs of their rightful profits by stealing their customers. And if it fails....it will reveal even greater incompetence than we could have possibly imagined because it will have been unable to make use of the overwhelming advantages it has created for itself. What a mess.

Al fayed has too much money, and hence way too many 'yes' men around him. His comments at the Diana inquest is prove that nobody has given him proper council as to how he should conduct himself or how to deliver his 'evidence'. He may have had his day in court but his only achievement was to send all the conspiracy theories into the wackosphere; which most of them belong (note: most of them).

Al Fayed and the reporting
Steve Smith ALWAYS credits himself as being Arts and Culture REPORTER and even Jeremy announced it once, so what was the point of this Al Fayed piece ?

The cartoons looked like they were the work of a child art student and considering two people died despite what we may think to illustrate any death as a matter of Culture and use tacky cartoons is without doubt the 大象传媒 dumbed right down.

sorry to everyone but I yearn for Nationalisation, the railways, the banks, the steel industry, telephones etc., and before anyone sections me can you say that life today with it's pig in trough mentality is better than thirty years ago when even the Tories thought the 'n' woird wasn't all bad. With vultures like Beardie waiting in the wings who wants all the 'profits' but none of the hassle, like an obligation to the public, so carry on Gord (even though I know you are squirming at the thought) the way the capatalist world is performing it may be your only escape route.

At a time when most decent investigative journalists are asking questions about sky high Geiger counter readings in enormous bunkers underneath the Euphrates River and why Syria has had to be bombed recently, Jeremy and Richard Watson take to the airwaves again about the WMD dossiers.

Jeremy barks about just how 鈥渂enign鈥� the dossiers were and Mr Watson takes the line that we now know there were no WMD there. Richard, we know there were no WMD when we got there, but prior to that we don鈥檛 know a sausage, mate.

Perhaps Newsnight could secure a no-holds barred interview with Syrian officials to deal with questions over any special deliveries they had in the post?

I wonder if they鈥檇 accept.