On air: Is Britain about to get rid of a good leader?

Update: Interesting take by our pol editor on why things have got a lot better for Brown.

Stephen Foley thinks it looks very stupid to ditch Brown. He’ll be on the show.

This story is unrelenting. You take your eyes of it for an hour, as I did last night for a game of squash, you turn the radio on and there’s another huge development.

The disappearance of AF 477

This from a Brazilian air force official in the last few hours: “no material from the plane has been recovered”. The debris we were told was the plane, isn’t. Your thoughts on the fact a modern plane on a major airline can take off on a Sunday, and five days later no-one has any idea where it is.

Has Gordon Brown lost the authority to lead Britain?

There’s fevered excitement around Westminster, the home of the UK parliament this morning. The talk is all about whether prime minister Gordon Brown can survive the latest barrage of criticism from within his own party.

When is it time to go?

Whether you’re the manager of a football team, the head of a car manufacturer, or the leader of the government, how do you know when it is the right time to quit?