| Thursday 14 October 2010 at 10.30pm on BBC Two Presented by Kirsty Wark President Ahmadinejad has been addressing thousands of Hezbollah supporters at a rally in southern Lebanon near the border with Israel - on a visit which both the US and Israel have said is intentionally provocative. Our Diplomatic editor Mark Urban has been investigating how close the Iranians are to achieving nuclear capability, and tonight he sets out in fascinating detail how Israel might try to pre-empt a nuclear attack. What does the 'big society' mean to you? Are you confused, perplexed? Newsnight's Big Society correspondent Steve Smith has been ringing around the Cabinet trying to find out what various ministers are doing for the big society, in an attempt to glean what it means for them. We'll have the results tonight! The government today wrestled hundreds of quangos to the ground, obliterating some and merging others, but to what end? At first it was spun as part of the "cut deep and cut now" agenda, but now it's billed as the way to restore accountability in decision making. So who will make the decisions made by the Horserace Totaliser Board, or the Advisory committee on Historic Wreck sites? And will there be opposition similar to the rearguard action taken over the British Film Institute? Presumably a civil servant who is a sommelier in his spare time gets to take over the Government Hospitality Advisory Committee on the Purchase of Wines. And, Baroness Thatcher was due to be celebrating her 85th birthday with David Cameron at Number 10 this evening, but she has been taken ill with flu. Her former Chancellor Nigel Lawson and new generation Tory MP Louise Bagshawe will join us to discuss how much of a Thatcherite the current PM is. Join me, Kirsty, at 10.30pm on BBC Two. | 
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