NEWSNIGHT - Thursday 1 September 2230 BST - BBC Two
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Presented by Emily Maitlis
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By Emily Maitlis:
WOMEN PAEDOPHILES
"The reality is women abuse, women abuse without men telling them to abuse, and I think we have to acknowledge it for the sake of the children who are being abused". So says Kidscape director Michelle Elliot.
Tonight we broach a subject that rarely comes under discussion - but has been thrust into the light by the convictions of female child abusers at a nursery in Plymouth.
We know that paedophiles don't always wear long overcoats and lurk in parks. We have been slow to recognise however, the women that choose sexual violence to satisfy their own needs. So this evening we will be asking how common place paedophilia is amongst women - even mothers - and whether it is motivated by the same thing that drives men to paedophilia.
AFGHANISTAN
I have just been talking to the Nato Secretary General Fogh Rasmussen, to ask him if he believes there will be, and should be, a change of strategy on Afghanistan. President Obama has been sitting on a report for the last two months calling for 40,000 more troops on the ground - what is holding up his decision?
Well one thing presumably, is the dire state of democracy in Afghanistan - elections that have been widely recognised as riddled with fraud.
So is the appetite for fighting there slipping away? Could we not achieve the same desired results - security here at home - with targeted counter-terrorism and unmanned drones?
Tonight we have special intelligence on new moves afoot in Pakistan.
IRELAND'S EU VOTE
Last time, the joke goes; the Irish got the answer wrong. They voted No to the Lisbon treaty. So they have been asked to go to the polls again.
The quip may not tell the whole story, but it embodies the spirit of one of the most extraordinary political campaigns in recent history.
There have been dirty tricks a plenty - on both sides - huge bribes of cash - on both sides - and characters that are larger than life - including a close friend of the hedge fund brigade and the colourful owner of Ryanair.
Liz McKean is in Dublin as the Irish prepare to vote once again - this time in the middle of a recession that threatens to choke off the very life blood of the country.
Plenty more this evening including Michael Crick and his chopped up cow.
It's enough to make you beg for Brit Art once again.
Emily
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