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Friday 16 October 2230 BST - BBC Two
Presented by Emily Maitlis & Martha Kearney



Publish and Be Damned?

At the heart of tonight's programme lie just 25 sentences that we may never get to see as they remain - for now - shrouded in secrecy, on the orders of the UK government.

They detail what happened to a terrorist suspect in custody. The British government has refused to make them public saying they breach our intelligence relationship with the United States and therefore our national security long term.

Tonight, the High Court ruled that it was overwhelmingly in the public interest to publish them.

Tonight, we ask Mr Miliband what he makes of the outright rejection of his argument by Britain's top judges.

Gaza 'war crimes'

"No, we didn't abstain - we didn't vote."

Confused? We were. Apparently, there is a key difference between the UK government abstaining and not voting when the UN Human Rights Council backed a report into the Israeli offensive in Gaza.

Earlier I put it to David Miliband the position amounted to 'mealy mouthed fence sitting'.

You can see his response to that this evening.

Also tonight, we'll be asking how much sympathy there is here for the position of Geert Wilders - the Dutch politician who calls the Koran a fascist document that should be banned and says he is against Islamic culture and Islamisation of the West.

Should he have been allowed into Britain? Was he war mongering in seeking to come here or demonstrating that the UK is indeed, a country that can tolerate dissenting voices in the name of freedom of speech?

And the man who is reportedly twice as successful as the CIA in making predictions.

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita uses maths, science and the logic of brazen self interest to see into the future.

Does it work? Could he tell us how the Israeli Palestinian peace talks will end up or indeed what the outcome of a UK general election would be?

Tell us what you fancy finding out - within reason - and we'll ask him how he would come to his conclusions.

Do join us tonight at 10.30pm on BBC Two.

Emily




newsnight review
Is the artist starving in their garret back in vogue? After the excesses of recent years, there seems to be a new puritanism in the art world provoked by recession.

We'll be exploring the complex relationship between creativity and commerce beginning with a major show about pop art at Tate Modern.

From the woman who makes copies of Warhol's own mass produced images to the artist who has sex with a collector for 20,000 dollars, the exhibition explores art in a material world. Damien Hirst's False Idol, the calf in a gold case is there. But he's now returned to painting with a new show hubristically sited amid the 19th century masters of the Wallace collection. Is this back to basics or an ingenious new twist in brand Hirst?

And we'll also discuss whether the new work on the Turner Prize shortlist reflects our changing times.

The panel is Grayson Perry - whose new work the Walthamstow Tapestry has much to say about the world of brands, the chief art critic of The Times Rachel Campbell-Johnson and Ekow Eshun from the ICA.

Do join us at 11pm.

Martha

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