| Thursday 11 November 2010 at 10.30pm on BBC 2 Presented by Kirsty Wark This is the day the universal benefit became real - from 2013 dozens of work related benefits will be swept away, in what the Work and Pensions Secretary said would be a fair deal for both the jobless and the taxpayer. Iain Duncan Smith says it would ensure people were always better off in work than on welfare. Tonight we will interrogate this new deal with a live debate in the studio with several of the benefit claimants Newsnight has featured since the election and the Welfare Reform minister, Lord David Freud. Obvious areas of enquiry - what if there are no jobs to be had? What if there is no suitable childcare? Will employers be incentivised to hire long term unemployed? Will there be guaranteed "back to work" courses for those no longer deemed unable to work? Then, who is leading the upsurge of violence in Northern Ireland? Are republicans, disillusioned with Sinn Fein, regrouping as a major threat to peace? And is the Police Service of Northern Ireland up to the task of ensuring law and order? Liz Mackean has just returned from Belfast where she's been talking to dissident republicans to try to find out how great the danger they pose is. Read more here. What price a happy dog? Apparently the EU thought it was worth doling out £350,000 for a dog fitness and rehabilitation centre to improve the lifestyle and living standards of dogs in northern Hungary. The money improved someone's living standards, but it wasn't the dogs - the centre was never built. According to the annual survey by Open Europe a euro-sceptic think-tank, amongst the 50 questionable EU decisions highlighted comes my favourite, £14,000 for Tyrolean farmers to boost their emotional connection with the landscape in Austria. But tonight on Newsnight, it's a dog's life. Join me at 10.30pm on BBC Two. | 
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