12/01/2014 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our look at the morning papers.

With me are Tom Bergin, a correspondent for Reuters, and the

freelance journalist Lucy Cavendish. First, let's have a look at

tomorrow's front pages. The Independent's lead story focuses

on new figures that suggest thousands of race hate crimes are

going unreported. The Daily Telegraph reports on

comments by the Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, who says that NHS

doctors and nurses should be more open with patients and apologise

when they make mistakes. The Guardian leads on claims that

taxpayer-funded school academy chains have paid millions of pounds

into the private businesses of directors, trustees and their

relatives. The Daily Mirror's top story says

British police are set to make their first arrests in the case of missing

Maddie McGann. The Daily Mail splashes on a report

that warns that half of all Brits will be obese by 2050.

The time continues on the same team, saying that doctors should

treat obesity like they do smoking. So, let's begin! Doctors and nurses

must say sorry for their mistakes. It is not an admission of legal

liability, it is the right into do, says Jeremy Hunt stop we know that

the boss is a big businesses, they might say something is regrettable,

but often they refused to say they are sorry because that implies

culpability. Yes, it does. We had to the point where -- we are at the

point where if someone says sorry, if deal silicon admission of guilt.

That is why doctors and nurses don't want to do that. It is a culture of

secrecy and not wishing to take Liam. They produced a leaflet, this

makes me feel really nervous, it is for pages and is the -- it is

entitled, saying sorry. The idea that if you go to the doctor they

will diagnose you correct the commerce and nobody needed to say

sorry, but what has been exposed is that is not actually the case and

people have died in mid Staffordshire and no one had debts

-- no one has said sorry. Sorry is the hardest word for. It's to say

because that regard legal indications. In America they are

changing the legal year, so doctors can say sorry and not open

themselves up to liability. Here they are saying that it is not an

admission of legal liability. Another interesting then I was

reading a book this week about cases in the United States of

malpractice. It Tyneside people don't necessarily sue negligent

doctors, but these two doctors who have annoyed them. Is that a

legitimate case, I don't like you so I will see you? While on the one

level you make open up the legal liability, you might also shut down

the possibility of a case against you. Empathy is very important.

Isn't it possible to say we are sorry that this has happened,

without saying I am sorry, I caused this. Yes, I suppose you could word

in that way and my -- that might be what they have to-do. You could see

through that. To me, that would make it worse. It wouldn't be heartfelt,

would it? How many times have we heard politicians say, we regret

this. It is not really saying sorry, is it? Let's move on to the Daily

Mail. Bombshell report reveals true scale of obesity crisis. It looked

like we were heading over a cliff on this. It really does, coming this

week after the stories of sugar, this is the next battle ground on

regulation. There is talk about that people should improve their own

behaviour. Also there is the question about the behaviour of

companies. The doors that lead the government is going to come under

more pressure to stop so much sugar in foods, and so on. With the

industry says that people should be able to make their own decisions.

That is right. The whole report on sugar last week, I believe that is

true. I edited the Observer food monthly and we did a lot of research

into this, especially the attack if case of sugar. There has been a

massive change in what people eat from when we were kids. It is an

addictive substance, sugar. If the government can persuade the

companies to change what is in their food, which is going to be hard

anyway, people do get a craving for it. People don't check the amount of

sugar that is in something. One of the articles last night was saying

that the obesity is our was saying -- the foetus -- obesity is our.

Clearly people should take care of themselves and exercise some

restraint. If they don't. But it is so yummy! It is dealing with

children, that is when they are hooking them in. We will have

hospitals full of people with obesity related disease. It could be

as bad as smoking. And now the government have put all sorts of

warning signs and ad campaigns and the information inside there. It is

not difficult to access. The numbers affected will be so much higher than

those who smoke. It is heading in so many different things. It is a

problem with the food industry. Remember when they tried to bring in

the traffic light system and back caused an outcry. -- that caused an

outcry. Tax is a much more meaningful thing. If these things

become more expensive, people will consume less of them. It seems that

the time of putting this off might not be for much longer. Let's move

on to the independent stop race hate, a crime the police cannot

solve. An exclusive from the Whitehall editor saying that tens of

thousands of race hate crimes are going unreported. Two military

leaders are warning that they don't have the fear in the police to

investigate these offences. This is exactly the same thing that was

shown last year, when the crime survey was compared to the police

figures. It is a difficult crimes sometimes to prove, race hate, or

any sort of hate crime. The police might see someone coming maybe with

a violent assault, they say it will be hard to stick it on the racially

motivated, so let's just go with plain assault. Maybe they are not

being pursued as he graces -- hate cases. It is important for people to

have the right crime investigated, isn't it? Yes, this reminds me of

what was going on that rape cases will be. Reporting them because the

rates of conviction were so low. But they had to go through in terms of

getting it to court. It was such a trauma. Sobbing. Reporting it. I'm

sure there is part of that in here. I can prove it, it will cause a

tremendous amount of problems, maybe there will be a lot of comeback in

the community were a live, so didn't get reported. But how do you know,

when they don't get reported? The crime survey is a sample of about

50,000 people. The police could surely argued that if you don't come

in reported, we cant investigated. I have been to the police station 12

times two reports a few small crimes. Sometimes it can seem very

bureaucratic. Maybe people don't bother. That is the message that I

got, on two occasions. Cash bonanza for Academy firms. These other firms

that run academy schools. They are given a lot of lassitude. The

suggestion is that there needs to be greater scrutiny on how they are

using this money. Wasn't this the point, that they were supposed to

have freedom? It is a very difficult story to explain in a nugget.

Essentially, a person with lots of money set and Academy, then somehow

manages to employ them rather as someone else, then that Academy

reinvest in all the company that this person owns in the first

place. Ie it is not a good ring. That is all completely wrong. It is

a good story to expose. What the Guardian is saying, quite rightly,

is that there needs to be far more transparency over what is happening.

It will be supplied into people that there is a more scrutiny. If you

read through the story, they defend these payments and say there are

different reasons why these are appropriate. Well, they are going to

defend them, hands up! There will say that the school spends a lot of

money, so the local community has the chance to get some of that. It

appears that the oversight of the schools was not as close as people

would have liked. In the daily Telegraph, happier marriages with

the couples without children. This is a huge study conducted into

Britain's relationships and apparently childless couples have

happier marriages! Of course they do! Number one, they are better

off. Number two, they have time for each other all stop number three,

they can go on holidays, did crosswords together. We disagreed on

this. I could look that and before I had children, externally it looks

like a more idyllic kind of relationship. Because it is! I

wonder would I have gotten bored of that that they didn't have children.

The thing is, you do have to make time. I say without -- people

without children and they envy them! It is a different type of

relationship. I find it more fun. Who wants to play Scrabble in the

evening? I'm sure that I would have been happy without them. If you're

trying to play Scrabble, they come in and say that that is not the

right word. People probably do have happier marriages without the

stresses and strains of children on an emotional and financial level.

When the kitchen never closes. That was very animated, that last story.

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