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I'd like Newsnight to thoroughly investigates who is calling the shots when it comes to bugging. The existance of 'Gladio' showed us all that the secret services are beyond the grasp of both parliament & government and now it would appear that the police are acting outside of their remit.

Police state?

Sorry to be thick, but what is the difference between 'Super Tuesday' and 'Super Duper Tuesday' ? Are more states voting today than on previous 'Super Tuesdays' ? Or does this just reflect the American need to continually embellish, which has resulted in fairly junior managers being labelled 'Senior Vice President' in many corporations ?

Dear Newsnight

Do you think people generally hold the view these days that the security service -who I trust, and MPs and journalists and everything else, you and me included is either black or white?

either you are one or the other?

what about the idea of greys and graduations -where did that go to?

Q- why do News editors feel that a story is only newsworthy if every other hack is running it?

I thought JPs comments last night hit the mark, what is the basis of the belief that MPs are different to the rest of us and different standards can therefore apply?

Q -Why are so many important stories ignored?

Q- How can a Governemnt really draw upon all the talents and does it really wish to?

what if the reality that someoen they brought in was better fitted to do the job than they were? What would happen then -to both sides?

Q -getting to the core of the problem, how do we change things?

Q- What would the factors that could change our democracy for the better?

any thoughts on the blog yesterday re the Electoral Commission and their recomendation ignored by the Government and Parliament to scrap deposits to stand for Parliament which would encourage more and a wider range of people to stand for Parliament, have you had time to ask them?

best wishes
Bob

US Election
Why are we having 5 presenters fron Newsnight are we really that bothered ?
Does the licence fee merit it ?

Can i suggest that the recent bugging of a labour MP was actually an action that i believe was necessary.
And i can't help but notice on this newsnight feedback, if your from the Daily Mail tribe of political opinion such as myself; your comments get disqualified for posting..do the moderators and their masters at the 大象传媒 have difficulty with opinions that goes against the grain of their own liberial wishy washy views.

In brief(sanitised version): labour MP visits an old friend and constitiuent in prison who happens to be wanted in the USA for terrorist support charges and their meeting was secretly recorded...the 'Wilson doctrine' means nothing when compared to gathering intelligence against terrorism...now before questioning my stance on this bugging issue make sure your not sat on your sanctimonious high horse or removed from reality.

cookie ducker,

I do hope you don't consider me to be on a sanctimonious high horse or divorced from reality (as an aside, what a delightful manner of debating a point; I rather get the impression *anyone* disagreeing with your stance will be so branded) but, to my mind, it seems that your argument would hold more water if the accused faced charges in the UK.

Are you saying that the Wilson Doctrine - and, perhaps, any number of civil liberties - are as nought when compared to assisting *a foreign country* in gathering intelligence in relation to proffered charges?

It strikes me that such a 'war on terror' is at least as dangerous a form of sanctimony as arguing that the security services ought not to unilaterally abandon standing conventions, without seeking guidance from elected politicians.

K

Bob (No. 3) raises some interesting questions. Regarding the question of "important stories" being ignored, I believe Gaurdian journalist Nick Davies has just published a book dealing with this issue. Might be worth a bit of Newsnight's time perhaps.

Regards,

Tony.