Snowmail: when David met Hillary
Updated on 03 February 2009
Jon Snow writes on tonight's programme, looking ahead to foreign policy, dementia and Buddy Holly...
David Miliband meets his new US opposite number, Hillary Clinton, for talks which doubtless will include Iran but which will also range across Afghanistan and anxieties over the stability of Pakistan.
It'll be interesting to watch how the stance of HMG across a range of foreign policy issues modulates as the new Obama administration defines itself more clearly.
That's precisely what Gary Gibbon is looking into; and in Washington, Sarah Smith is watching developments.
DEMENTIA INITIATIVE
Dementia haunts one in five of us. 700,000 suffer from it now, double that within the next 20 years. The government launches a new initiative. Victoria Macdonald will be assessing what it adds up to.
FSA IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Siobhan Kennedy has been following the Isle of Man's government effort to try and claw something back from the Icelandic banking wreckage in which they were so severely caught up.
The treasury select committee has been taking evidence on the issue today, and - as we reported last night - the finger has once again been pointed at Britain's regulatory body, the FSA, for laxity. Her report, at seven.
STRIKES CONTINUE
The wildcat strikes across the country over the hiring of labour from other European countries continue. Nick Martin is out and about with the strikers and finding it increasingly difficult to find anyone who knows exactly why they're on strike and under what terms they would return.
RAVE ON
Finally, drove my Chevvy to the levee but the levee was dry... Bye-bye, Miss American Pie.
I don't know how I've gone so long without clocking that Don Maclean's 1972 ode to the day the music died (and my favourite of the time) was all about the air crash on this day 50 years ago that killed Buddy Holly, along with the "Big Bopper" and Richie Valens.
New Holly recordings and images are still coming to light. Watch and listen to this space.
