Friday 30 July 2010
Here's Emily with news of what's coming up on tonight's programme:
The ´óÏó´«Ã½ has just launched (yet another) online course. This one is about fraud.
We are meant to do it to help us overcome those situations where people are engaging in 'behaviour resulting in personal enrichment through deception' or the deliberate misuse or misappropriation of ´óÏó´«Ã½ resources or assets.
Cue hoots of sardonic laughter from colleagues gazing soulfully into their empty pension pots...
Anyway, talking about things being taken away, we begin tonight with a look at the debate over Trident and who should pay for its renewal.
Liam Fox is widely seen as getting his knuckles rapped by Chancellor Osborne for suggesting that the Treasury - not the MoD - should foot the bill. But you don't tend to find £20bn in the petty cash drawer.
So what kind of cuts would the defence budget have to make if this comes to pass?
After rushing through a piece of legislation as if it were urgent anti-terror measures, the Education Secretary Michael Gove has had to acknowledge that initial take-up of his academies programme by schools has been way lower than anticipated.
Good, say many Lib Dems, under their breath.
Newsnight has learnt that at their conference in September party activists will put forward a motion voicing strong concerns over academies and free schools and warning against the changes.
How will this play for coalition politics? Michael Crick is on the case.
And with accusations from the top US military official that the Wikileaks founder has blood on his hands after revelations of the state of the Afghan conflict earlier this week, we debate the merits of free speech.
We'll hear from Heather Brooke, who fought the parliamentary system to expose the MPs expenses scandal, and from the former hacker who took his fears over Wikileaks straight to US authorities.
Jonathan Ross is gone so you have no excuse not to join us 10.30pm on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Two.
Emily
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From earlier today:
The full £20bn cost of renewing the UK's Trident nuclear deterrent must be paid for by the Ministry of Defence, George Osborne has said.
Traditionally, the Treasury has always found the money for the submarines.
The chancellor's comments come as Defence Secretary Liam Fox warned it would be "very difficult" to maintain other MoD projects if more than half its budget went on funding Trident.
Paul Mason will be examining the figures for us tonight.
Michael Crick will be profiling the two front running candidates in the Labour leadership contest, the brothers Miliband.
And we'll be debating press freedom in light of the release of 92,000 classified documents relating to the war in Afghanistan by the Wikileaks website.
The US military's top officer, Admiral Mike Mullen has said that Julian Assange, the site's editor-in-chief may already have blood on his hands as a result of the leak.
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More later.