Imagined futures that are really thinly disguised commentaries on current affairs are not chiefly concerned with reliable prediction.
The result has been a push towards long, thoughtful essays on current affairs, attempts at building a star system of writers and so on.
The debate on 3 November 2011 was opened by Liberal Democrat Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury, a journalist who has worked on current affairs programmes for the BBC and Channel 4.
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Speaking on BBC current affairs programme The Wales Report, she said she wanted to see urgent action taken to vaccinate children over the next month, especially as the disease is more likely to spread as they return to school.
We have already reshaped our offering on Saturday mornings, with more news and current affairs on offer to our audience, instead of late night programming.
While including much of the drama, entertainment, factual and educational programming that sells around the world, the SBC could perhaps co-operate on news and current affairs, if an agreement could be reached.
For the 10e anniversary of the prize, two round tables, on the theme of current affairs that is of great concern to both men and women of culture, were organized on the sideline of the ceremony bringing together new and past winners, as well as a few members of the international Jury.
The programme, presented by Darragh MacIntyre, won the current affairs category on Sunday night.
After eight years on sport programmes he moved to current affairs with Nationwide, where his calm, friendly and efficient handling of a complex programme earned him admirers.
Patrick Ortega is the founder and president of the Civic Family Institute in Los Angeles, a public policy organization dedicated to educating Hispanics on the American political system and current civic affairs.
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He moved into current affairs at Granada Television, working on World in Action and What the Papers Say, as well as hosting a series on cinema.
After a spell on Radio 4's The World At One, Kirsty moved to television in 1983 - working as a producer on Reporting Scotland and later producing and presenting the current affairs weekly Seven Days.
Regarding the current cases, Stuart Taylor, a writer on legal affairs for the non-partisan National Journal, argues that it is reasonable for a president to dismiss a prosecutor over policy (for example, if the White House favours the death penalty and a prosecutor never seeks it), but not for partisan reasons.
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For her work on CNN's "On China, " Kristie Lu Stout was recently awarded Best Current Affairs Presenter, her second Asian Television Award during her 14 years with CNN International.
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The bureau's editorial advisory board is chaired by Ray Fitzwalter, who was the executive producer on Granada TV's World In Action, which produced current affairs documentaries.
It would review books: novels, scholarly books, books on art, music, literature, culture of all kinds and current affairs.
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One issue that made matters much worse is the current state of affairs in Greece where Greek judges remain on strike to this day.
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We are also planning a new half-hour, weekly current affairs and politics programme for Border that will focus on the stories, issues and concerns of viewers across the whole region.
The Center for Security Policy believes that this is no time for the State Department to be imposing a party line on either its public or its confidential treatments of the current state of affairs in the Soviet Union.
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It only emerged in October that the six-week investigation had been dropped by BBC TV's flagship current affairs programme, just before ITV aired its own programme on the allegations.
Unveiling grooming of girls as young as 12 for prostitution on the streets of Britain, Teenage Sex for Sale was awarded best current affairs programme at the RTS North West Awards 2008.
For five years from 1983, he worked on the weekly radio documentary programme File on 4, winning numerous awards and commendations including the Sony Award for best current affairs programme for his coverage of the political unrest in South Africa.
As a result of the report, Quebec's Municipal Affairs Minister Nathalie Normandeau is accepting Blanchet's recommendation that the current moratorium on electronic voting put in place after last year's elections be maintained, apparently indefinitely.
On 15 May 2012, as MPs continued debating the Queen's Speech, focusing on foreign affairs and international development, the Labour spokesman accused ministers of complacency in the face of the current "profound reordering of geo-economics and potentially geo-politics".
Other witnesses to be recalled include Mr Straw and former Chief of the Defence Staff Lord Bryce while current Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell and Sir Stephen Wall, once Tony Blair's adviser on European affairs, will appear for the first time.
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