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Friday, 11 January, 2008

  • Newsnight
  • 11 Jan 08, 04:52 PM

liver_bird203x100.jpgTonight most of Newsnight comes from Liverpool to debate just what being European Capital of Culture means for the city.

Gavin Esler will be joined by Echo and the Bunnymen lead singer, Ian McCulloch, TV impresario Phil Redmond, and "Bread" actress Jean Boht to debate just how Liverpool will benefit from being Culture Capital and what Liverpool today has to offer.

Glasgow local and author Sanjeev Singh Kohli has a report from Glasgow about what being Capital of Culture in 1990 meant for that city.

But we lead tonight with a report from Michael Crick about the increasingly vulnerable position that Peter Hain finds himself in.

We'll debate whether he can survive the weekend with both his ministerial jobs intact - Peter is not only Work and Pensions secretary but also Secretary of State for Wales.

Newsnight Review

This week Martha Kearney is joined by Miranda Sawyer Johann Hari and Ian McMillan.

They'll be reviewing Charlie Wilson's War, Moving Wallpaper and Echo Beach, The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa and La Cage aux Folles. Find out more on the .


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May I request that Martha Kearney no longer shows her clevage on Newsight. Fashion should not spoil the presentation and appearance of a good presenter.

May I request that Jerry Paxman was so unkind to the son of Mrs Bhutto? The lad had just was still been grieving for his mother and Jerty should have taken this into account. Why di he have to state the obvious by saying in suc brash manner that the lad was too young for the job. Although Jerry Paxman is, there are times when I felt that he has enough mouth for two sets of teeth.Bill Coughlan -#Chelmsford.

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  • At 09:30 AM on 12 Jan 2008,
  • steve wrote:

Liverpool is capital of culture...so what? As a resident, the only beneficiaries will be the hotel and leisure groups that have sprung up all over the city, which, I suppose is investment of a sort but does it benefit the average Merseysider? The legacy for all this excess will be an increase in council tax and a debt hole that has already got legs...but someone is making a few quid.

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  • At 01:28 PM on 12 Jan 2008,
  • Adrienne wrote:

NGOs, QUANGOS and THINK TANKS

We have a problem. There's been an the alarming emergence agencies, and 'Third Sector' NGOs, QUANGOs and 'Think Tanks' in place of the state/civil service over the past couple of decades. These anarchistic (and largely unaccountable, see the many dubious self-publications, many of which seem to be just a compliance sop?) bodies seem to have proliferated at a rate which is inverse to the size and efficacy of the Civil Service and regulators. Is breaking up the state and country democractic, or is it better seen as asset stripping subversion?


  • 4.
  • At 06:53 PM on 12 Jan 2008,
  • Adrienne wrote:

Bill (#1) Because it does not appear to be at all obvious to the PPP that their audacious behaviour is incensing the Pakistan population to such an extent that they will sucide bomb in order to bring home their contempt for this misguided/corrupt group of nepotists?

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  • At 12:42 PM on 13 Jan 2008,
  • Sally C wrote:

Martha's interview re Hain was a disgrace. She allowed a Welsh MP to be called 'dispicable' without allowing him to reply, giving what time remained to the 'Hain man' to repeat comments he had already made.
Bring back Paxman.

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  • At 01:44 PM on 13 Jan 2008,
  • Adrienne wrote:

THE TRUE FACE OF DEMOCRATIC BRITAIN & DEVOLUTION OF POWER TO 'THE PEOPLE'?

Is this an accurate picture of real nature of neo-Conservative/neo-Labour 'freedom', de-regulation, 'choice' and democratic socialism (anarcho-
capitalism), i.e 'power to the people'? Is it unfair for so many to keep bringing attention to disproportionately bear on one, statistically over-represented, but invariably legally 'compliant', extended group?





As you read the first link, consider the class label 'white', and bear in mind the implications of there being a protected white MINORITY group in the UK, and USA.

Irony, self-parody and campaigning for the downtrodden in the name of equality is fine so long as one can not extricate oneself from the alleged oppressors by claiming to be a member of a persecuted minority in one's own right...

another 'minority' to gain advantage.

Another clone, from whom we can just expect more of the same asset stripping anarchism which preferentially serves the unscrupulous:

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  • At 02:42 PM on 13 Jan 2008,
  • June Gibson wrote:

City of Culture: Yeah, yeah, yeah, they'd better look out in Liverpool, or else born inhabitants will find their town taken from them (if it hasn't already by property developers) much as London has been taken from born inhabitants like me. They'll end up with a huge over-priced theme park for tourists, a nice little earner for property magnates and so on.

A lot of businesses like to be associated with places that have a cultural buzz.

- cultural buzz encourages innovation in business

- cultural buzz is something interesting for workers to be associated with.

And so on.

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