Presented by Kirsty Wark
By Kirsty Wark: It's the new age of the train, ish! At least that is what the Transport Minister Lord Adonis believes - but his vision (five years after it appeared in Labour's manifesto) is limited to a high speed rail link between London and Birmingham with provisional plans to carry on northwards eventually.
The first stage wouldn't be completed until 2025. So how much will it cost?
Will it be green (the system, not the train), and how big will the objections be?
And given the Conservatives say they want to go the whole way, would an incoming Conservative government commit straight away to pushing up to Scotland?
Live tonight on the Newsnight platform each of the Transport briefs - Lord Adonis, Theresa Villiers and Norman Baker.
He was attached to George W Bush at the hip and spurred him on to The White House, and all the way through the Iraq War to 2007, now Karl Rove is the closest man to the former president to have penned a memoir, Courage and Consequence.
Tonight he gives his first UK interview to Newsnight - on weapons of mass destruction, water boarding, and being described by Bush as a "turd blossom".
He says the allegation yesterday by the former head of MI5 Eliza Manningham-Buller that Dick Cheney, Mr Bush and Donald Rumsfeld honed their approach to terror by watching the TV series 24, as "laughable", and claims that America under Barack Obama is a less safe place, now that "exceptional interrogation techniques" like water boarding, are no longer allowed.
And should we still care about the "Concept album"? Today Pink Floyd won a skirmish in the battle to classify their albums as whole entities - rather than being sold as single track downloads.
A founder member of Dire Straits and a member of the band Ash discuss whether the idea of a concept album went out with flares.
Join us at 10.30pm.
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