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Wednesday 29 February 2012

Tonight's programme is dedicated to the government's controversial overhaul of the NHS. The Health and Social Care Bill has completed its Commons stages but is having a difficult passage through the...

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Friday 2 March 2012

The International Committee of the Red Cross says its aid workers have been blocked from entering the Baba Amr district in the Syrian city of Homs, where civilians have endured days of fierce fighting....

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Monday 5 March 2012

As the UK government says it is re-considering its plan to axe child benefit for higher rate taxpayers we ask whether any change can be made to the benefits system without a coalition-rocking public...

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Tuesday 6 March 2012

Tonight as Business Secretary Vince Cable says that there is an "understanding" within government that if the 50p rate was scrapped it would be replaced with a levy such as the mansion tax favoured by...

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Thursday 8 March 2012

Tonight, we look at whether rising mortgage rates are bad or good for the economy. We ask whether the news that one of Syria's deputy oil ministers has resigned from the government to join the revolt...

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Friday 9 March 2012

Allegra Stratton has been despatched to the Liberal Democrat Spring conference in Gateshead where Nick Clegg has told attendees that the bill has been changed "in a thousand ways" since it was first...

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Tuesday 13 March 2012

A week ahead of the budget we take a longer look at the black hole in the public finances, assessing what the state is going to be able to in decades to come. We will hear from our Economics editor...

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Thursday 15 March 2012

Tonight we have an in-depth look at the gay marriage debate as the government begins a 12-week consultation on allowing gay couples in England and Wales to marry. Jeremy Paxman has an interview with...

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Friday 16 March 2012

Good shepherd or turbulent priest? As Dr Rowan Williams announces that he is to step down as Archbishop of Canterbury in December, Newsnight looks back at his time in the role and forward to who his...

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Monday 19 January 2012

Tonight Allegra Stratton examines David Cameron's call for a nation of Telfords and Brunels as he urges the country to "build for the future with as much confidence and ambition as the Victorians once...

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Tuesday 20 March 2012

Tonight we look ahead to tomorrow's Budget asking how much room for manoeuvre the chancellor has and what we are likely to see. Susan Watts has a report on fracking, a controversial method for...

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Thursday 22 March 2012

Tonight we have a report on work-to-welfare company A4e. We have obtained the results of a confidential 2009 internal audit of work by A4e's top recruiters in which auditors found examples of staff...

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Friday 23 March 2012

Tonight Susan Watts reports on the government proposals for a minimum alcohol price in England and Wales and we discuss whether such a measure is likely to be effective. We look at the Florida shooting...

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Monday 26 March 2012

Tonight our Political editor Allegra Stratton has the latest on the "cash for access" row surrounding Number 10 and we will be discussing the issue with Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude. We have...

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