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  • Newsnight
  • 22 Feb 08, 10:28 AM

Today's programme producer is Dan Kelly - here is his early email to the production team.

Morning all.

Open to lots of suggestions today on stories, guests and treatments. Plenty of stories around but what should we make our own?

Should agency workers have the same pay and conditions as other workers? A Private Members Bill is expected to receive strong support from Labour MPs today despite the opposition of the Government and claims from the CBI that 250,000 jobs could go. Can we shine a light on to the world of agency workers? What are their conditions and what are the consequences?

Peter Marshall is working on a profile of Barack Obama, which guests would you like off the back?

Other stories we could do include allegations of torture by British troops in Iraq. Serbia and reports that the Turkish army has entered northern Iraq.

Please come with lots of ideas.

Dan


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INTERVENTIONISM TRIUMPH

Wasn't the Balkans one of Tony's "triumphs of intervention"?
Surely he can spare half a day to advise on what to do next. All expenses paid, of course. After all, didn't he say that there was nothing he had done that - looking back - he did not wish he had gone further?
There ya go Tone!

  • 2.
  • At 02:24 PM on 22 Feb 2008,
  • Bob Goodall wrote:

Dear Mr Kelly

Good morning to you. hope this gets through,

re agency workers -Why not tackle it another way and perhaps TAX them at a much lower rate than is applied to other workers?

I have sometimes wondered why people are taxed at the same rate?

ie some professions might be taxed at low rates to reflect their low pay but use to society, why others highly paid but in reality perhaps not much use at all could be taxed at a much higher level?

or a highly paid surgeon might be taxed at a much lower level than someone in the City earning the same amount?

if we did this I wonder what level of tax Newsnight bloggers think should be applied to those luminaries such as lawyers and Estate agents who brighten up all our lives, and the rates that should be applied to important people in our community say shop workers or those who work at my local swimming pool who do a very useful and beneficial job but I guess are not paid what they are worth, not least because the money isn't there?

Hope helpful to the debate

best wishes
Bob

  • 3.
  • At 03:30 PM on 22 Feb 2008,
  • Philip Ross wrote:

I am sick to death of the 大象传媒 using my money to make totally unfounded allegations about British forces in Iraq. Unless they have proof the programme should not be broadcast and the public should be told who is behind this systematic and regular campaign against our armed forces who are currently fighting two wars at the behest of our totally useless government.

  • 4.
  • At 06:55 PM on 22 Feb 2008,
  • Paul D wrote:

Surely that is the point Philip Ross (No.3), to establish whether these really are totally unfounded allegations or if further investigation is required. That must be preferable to any suggestion of a cover-up.

  • 5.
  • At 09:02 PM on 22 Feb 2008,
  • A. S. wrote:

I hope the idiocy of a national DNA database (don't we already have that?) won't be up for debate.

I really baffles me how the British police, twenty years ago, and the police, today, elsewhere in the Western world (subject to the same modern crimes) managed and manage to survive without DNA evidence. Perhaps the British police of yesteryear and foreign police, today, used and use 'intelligence', in both senses of the word. The police need 'street' knowledge, the kind not gained from inside a car.

Anyway, aren't the overwhelming majority of crimes solved, today, using DNA evidence, crimes which people have perpetrated for decades and which have been successfully SOLVED over the same decades WITHOUT DNA technology?

You don't destroy the civil liberties of sixty-million people to solve a few thousand crimes.

Why not try to create a 'European' society with LESS crime that requires investigation?

DATA BASE

I see crime is said to have fallen in an area flooded by paparazzi trailing some celebrity. Is there a message in there somewhere?
As for DNA: how do we keep "Law-n-Order" from treating it as infallible? The wrongly convicted take years to get their freedom when banged up "old style". When "perfectly nicked" by DNA, it will take a lifetime.

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