The Channel 4 News website is taking some time out this weekend. So for one day only, Snowmail appears live and exclusively on the More News blog. Over to Jon. Enjoy.
Just when you think they’ve managed to get the roof on the house, all the walls fall down. Yes, you may have thought the Labour party had sorted out its embarrassing conflict about how to get rid of Tony Blair. But today up pops the formidable Charles Clarke, former home secretary, telling the prime minister in waiting Gordon Brown that he’s stupid.
Absolutely stupid for not condemning the people who triggered the crisis in the first place. And now other ministers have popped up to condemn Charles Clarke.
It’s an interesting tactic from Mr Clarke, either he never wants to be in cabinet again or he thinks that the only way Brown will be able to construct an eclectic will be to have a notorious rebel in its midst, i.e. as of today, Charles Clarke.
Anyway, it was Alastair Campbell who allegedly described Gordon Brown as having a psychological flaw. And it seems effectively that Mr Clarke agrees. So tonight, along with the latest, we examine Mr Brown’s psyche. We shall be talking to his chief lieutenant, Alistair Darling, the man most likely to be the next chancellor (live).
For more see: Clarke attacks Brown
We have a remarkable story out of Afghanistan tonight. Beyond today’s ghastly event in which a car bomb has killed 17 outside the US embassy, including a couple of American soldiers – we have evidence that Pakistan, having suffered appalling casualties in the neighbouring Waziristan (a province of Afghanistan), has signed an agreement with the Taliban there in which, in return for all their guns and prisoners, Pakistan will be allowed to withdraw. Effectively, therefore, as of tonight the Taliban has a country again, and the Americans seem to be doing nothing about it. Alex Thompson has the latest amid a gathering mass of evidence that the great Nato-led attempt to bring some sort of western concept of order to Afghanistan is in very serious trouble.
For more see: Afghanistan
Loads of other things moving, ranging from Sainsbury's announcing a limited compostible packaging of its products to an extraordinary British art exhibition in the occupied territories in which everything has had to be copied because the dangers present too great a threat to real works of art.
We shall have a work of art for you at seven as ever is, Jon Snow.
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This is the first time I've tried to join a blog....big thing for me... I was concerned by tonight's presenters assertion that reporting on religious extreemist's behaviour and suicide bombers bombings are not subjective decisions. All decisions about what to report in and not report in the media are subjective. They are just decisions about what are and are not considered newsworthy today, sadly! If people considered their decisions more carefully and in a more balanced way then perhaps the conditions of those in strife in less newsworthy parts of the world (ie without oil and in non-geographic positions of strategic oil importance) such as Zimbabwe, Sudan and Somalia might be improved.
Perhaps this evening's presenter ought to take more care about her semantic use of language.
Posted by: Stephanie Steer | Saturday, 28 October 2006 at 07:34 PM