Talking Points for 4 March

Mourners lay wreaths at the site

The Sri Lankan cricketers have returned home and the hunt is on for the gunmen. A reward has been offered for more information. If urdu and cricket were what really united a country as diverse as Pakistan, what happens now?

 

William Dalrymple paints a grim picture of the year since the elections.

Adoption – who’s right?

Madonna is getting divorced. And the real father of her adopted son David is not too happy with his son being brought up by a single mother.

But he gave up his son didn’t he? Should he now get a say in how little David is brought up?

Talking Points for 20th October

Ros and Mark are in San Francisco and currently asleep, but when they do wake up, they’ll be broadcasting tonight’s show from KALW. They have a live studio audience there who are keen to talk about Afghanistan…

Is the war there failing? Do we need a surge in Afghanistan like the one in Iraq?