Comedy legend Jackie Mason is in the UK on what he says will be his final tour of the country. The self-proclaimed "amazingly talented" stand-up gave a private routine to Newsnight's Stephen Smith.

Chris Leslie MP, Labour’s Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury, responding to BBC Newsnight reports this evening suggesting that Danny Alexander and David Willetts approved the Chief Executive Officer of the Student Loans Company’s contract, said:

A BBC Newsnight investigation reveals that the Student Loans Company's chief executive Ed Lester received his £182,000 pay package without deductions for tax or National Insurance.

A review into claims of tax avoidance by top civil servants is ordered by Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander, after a BBC Newsnight investigation.

Lib Dem chief secretary to the treasury Danny Alexander was grilled by BBC Newsnight’s Jeremy Paxman on Wednesday night about the UK’s negative growth figures — here’s what Danny had to say about the Coalition’s economic strategy: (Available on the BBC website here.) * Stephen Tall is Co-Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice, and also writes

Newsnight's Jeremy Paxman was speaking to Scotlands' First Minister Alex Salmond about the politics of independence.

Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Liam Byrne, told Newsnight's Jeremy Paxman Labour are in favour of a cap on benefits, but want more safeguards written in.

Capitalism is only concerned with growth and making profit, not responsibility, the Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm tells Newsnight's Jeremy Paxman.

Comment just attached, by "Malcolm", to my posting here a while back entitled Austrianism as Number Two: Newsnight has just introduced its story on Ed Milliband's decision today to back the government's pay freeze by playing the Keynes v Hayek video from Econstories.tv The narrator even described it as a "fabulous" video that is "easily the most entertaining explanation of the issues" - ...

Newsnight's Peter Marshall challenges Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum on what he meant when he said that healthcare policies had brought down the British Empire.