We asked the spectators Fraser Nelson and a professor who worked alongsidejohn mcdonnell. Music. Also tonight. Just how much fun did those bunnies really have . As the death of hugh hefner is announced, we ask if playboy can be seen as a force for emancipation. And this. He said he was stepping down to avoid causing embarrassment to the Prime Minister and to his colleagues in government. Alan hollinghurst on his new book, the sparsholt affair. The book opens in oxford in 1940 at the time of the blackout. We end up in the book at the end of 2013 and the whole nations personal privacy has radically altered. Good evening. A conservative Prime Minister running to the defence of capitalism would have seemed, in another age, like a fish talking up the benefit of water. Today, theresa may felt the need to tell an audience at the bank of england that a free, well regulated, market economy, is the greatest agent of collective Human Progress ever created. Why . Does she seeJeremy Corbyns brand o
Of neutrality, we have bounced back. We have created record numbers of jobs. Two looks unlucky. Three, though . An image of modern britain, in all its diversity, compassion and strength, that was shared around the globe. A painful metaphor for a party struggling to hold it together. However, the fact that it went wrong actually made it a strangely moving Prime Ministers speech. But one that gained theresa may more sympathy and less authority. Has that left her in danger . Well discuss the drama, the farce, and the policy too. Also tonight San Francisco led the world into the hiv epidemic among gay men, and is now leading the world out of it. I think prep is this enormous breakthrough, not only in protecting against hiv, but improving the health and well being of people, because, for the first time, they can have sex without being scared. Well hear about how its success in bringing infections down is coming here. Hello. This was billed as the speech to rescue her premiership, but, in th
Thatis conviction for drink driving. And that is a summary of the news. Now it is time for newsnight. We must strike at the root. Fawkes will light the fuse. Who needs guy fawkes when you have grant shapps . Tonight, the plot against the pm is foiled. How safe will she be and for how long . Hollywoods dirty secret. As Harvey Weinstein takes leave of absence to conquer what he calls his demons we ask how long the movie industry has been covering up claims of sexual abuse. And Salman Rushdie talks to me about gender identity and why hes adapted his writing for a fake news age. I think the break down peoples break down of trust injournalism, in the idea of facts and reality, is a very dangerous thing, and i think one of the reasons there may be for writing novels at a time like this, is it is a place in which writers and readers can begin to agree once more on the nature of the truth. Good evening. In politics, as in comedy, timing is everything. If youre plotting against a Prime Minister
When the nation woke to the horror of the Grenfell Tower fire almost four months ago now, a report quickly emerged of a baby apparently thrown out of a window by a desperate mother. Miraculously, the child was caught by a man on the ground below and saved. It was a moving tale and it had currency because it encapsulated the tragic choices that those trapped by fire might have to confront. Above all, it was a glimmer ofjoy on a terrible night, with a hero in the man who caught the baby. Stories like this are a big part of news reporting. They help us to form judgements on larger events. And the specific stories that catch on, often Say Something about us. But given that this account of the baby was so seized upon, in a night of total confusion, its worth asking if it was all as it seemed. David grossman was moved by it as soon as he heard it, and he has been trying to find out more. Listen to him. We need to leave now. Straight to that breaking story in west london. London fire brigade
Of independence at all. As madrid breaths a sigh of relief, separatists will wonder what happened to their movement, their moment. No one understands the Legal Framework for what he announced today. No one understands what the next steps are for catalonia or for spain. A huge moment of anticipation and tonight a fair degree of chaos. Gasbriel gatehouse is in barcelona to try and make sense of it all. All eyes were on barcelona tonight, but now they shift to madrid. Everything depends on what the Spanish Government does next. A week ago, Carles Puigdemont, the president of the catalan regional autonomous region pledged on the bbc, unequivocally, to declare independence. What he did this evening fell short of that. He has promised to negotiate with madrid perhaps through international mediators, but given that his stated end destination is the same as it was before and madrid has never shown any interest in talking to you about this in the past, it is hard to see why they would change th