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next 90 days or lose his world title. And how England won their | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
first Ashes of the winter, beating Australia in Perth. That is all | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
after The Papers. Hello and welcome to our look ahead | :00:00. | :00:19. | |
to what the morning's papers will be bringing us. With me are Louise | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
Court, Editor in Chief of Cosmopolitan, and James Miller who | :00:23. | :00:24. | |
is a political journalist for the Sunday Post. Welcome. Do not believe | :00:25. | :00:32. | |
all you have heard. It is only 12 minutes. | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
The i says the Prime Minister, David Cameron, is being accused of | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
"fiddling data" on economic recovery. The Mail claims teachers | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
who take drugs are to be allowed back into the classroom under new | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
rules. The Daily Telegraph says that NICE is urging patients to be more | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
assertive with their doctors, in order to get the medicines they're | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
entitled to. The Times has a picture of President Hollande of France | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
meeting the Pope at the Vatican. Its lead story is the number of terror | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
arrests in the UK, as fears grow about the threat posed by Britons | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
travelling to and from Syria. The Daily Express warns that gales are | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
about to batter Britain again. The Mirror has an investigation into | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
abortion drugs which it says are available on the internet for as | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
little as 78p. The Guardian says 185 Nepalese construction workers have | :01:18. | :01:19. | |
been killed in the last year, while working on projects for the 2022 | :01:20. | :01:26. | |
World Cup in Qatar. And the FT lists a string of currencies hit by the | :01:27. | :01:36. | |
fall of the Argentine peso. Let's begin. We start with the i, a | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
story that has been reported throughout the day. The headline | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
is" Prime Minister accused of fiddling data on economic recovery. | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
Leading economists denounce government assertions over rising | :01:53. | :01:54. | |
household income is dubious at best". We almost what we can do with | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
statistics and it depends what you want them to say. Absolutely. I | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
don't think the Prime Minister has personally fiddled the data, but you | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
can obviously do what you like with statistics to an extent. The second | :02:11. | :02:19. | |
hit is IFF Star rector -in 2015 average pay will be lower than it | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
was pre-recession and lower than in 2010. -- the IFA is director. | :02:23. | :02:35. | |
We know when the general election will be, and all political parties | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
are getting their ducks in a row. Labour have been talking about cost | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
of living prices for months and this is the way the coalition are coming | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
back at that. The challenge is that if you say to everybody, it is all | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
better and everything is great, if it will don't feel it, it will | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
cheese them off being told this. Isn't the theory that you nudge | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
people in the right direction and eventually they will believe it? | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
There has been research done that people are actually behaving, | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
although the climate is getting better, as if they are in the midst | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
of a recession. They don't trust what is happening and they have | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
changed their spending habits. To tell people it is fabulous, it | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
infuriates people who don't feel it. With some of the statistics quoted | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
earlier today, we are meant to be ?3 better off on the average wage | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
which, you know, you can hardly buy a copy for that. That is probably | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
what people are giving up, treats like Coffey. There are regional | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
differences, aren't there? We know employers are being encouraged pass | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
on any profits, any improvements they are seeing to their staff, | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
rather than holding onto that benefit. But, as you say, people are | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
not necessarily behaving as if the recession is coming to an end. | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
People think the economy is going to get worse, which is bizarre, given | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
that the government is hammering everybody with the good news. Again, | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
I suppose it suggests that people don't necessarily trust the | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
statistics they are being given, and headlines like this possibly feed | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
into that, maybe they feed it. It is a bit of a chicken and egg. Do | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
people not trust the stats because of the stories, or do the papers put | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
it on the front page because they know people will not believe any | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
stats put in front of them? People know how they feel about the money | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
in their wallet, or not in it. Which is why they don't trust the stats. | :04:44. | :04:50. | |
They trust cold, hard cash. The Guardian has kind of a related story | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
insofar as what a future Labour government would do in economic | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
terms. Ed Balls gives Labour a dilemma, to raise tax cut spending. | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
The Shadow Chancellor has his colours to the mast, giving a | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
binding commitment that a Labour government will run a budget surplus | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
by the end of the next Parliament. He is a bit of a hostage to fortune | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
with that idea. It is about trust and labour wanting people to trust | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
them with the economy again. Absolutely, and to persuade voters | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
that they will be tough on government spending and they have an | :05:28. | :05:29. | |
economic plan for sustained recovery. I think also, when you | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
have got the coalition going out and saying, we are making things better, | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
Labour have to come to the table with something that they are going | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
to be doing. But I think it is a very brave statement. Things are | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
getting better, that is the thing, isn't it? Even if it is a small | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
amount at the moment, which is possibly why it falls feels able to | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
say he will run a surplus, because he thinks the economy will be in a | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
position where he can do that. It is a bit of a risk, and he does say it | :06:01. | :06:07. | |
is a binding commitment. I do not quite understand how it is binding, | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
other than he gets voted out if he does not meet the commitment. | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
Whether he goes to jail, or what! It is one of those difficult positions | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
for shadow ministers. They have two attack what is currently going on | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
and then give a solution for how they would change it. They cannot | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
say on the one hand more debt is being racked up where the Coalition | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
Government and then not have a plan to deal with it. It is whether he | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
chooses to tax us, or to keep cutting away at the welfare budget, | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
which they have also been critical of. It depends which voters they are | :06:41. | :06:49. | |
after. If they are after the middle ground, by saying you will raise | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
tax, is it going to go down as popular? No. But if you are talking | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
to the labour homeland, if you are saying we are going to cut spending, | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
that is going to cause problems. So they are in a tough place. They have | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
to get the message out maybe earlier than they might like. They can't | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
change tack just a few weeks before the election because nobody would | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
believe it. With the economy turning a corner, the cost of living a tag | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
line which they have been running is beginning to wear a bit thin. It | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
looks like the figures might actually begin to play into the | :07:26. | :07:27. | |
hands of the Tories in terms of the cost of living crisis if not being | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
over, if there is one, will at least not be as bad, there will be light | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
at the end of the tunnel. Daily Telegraph says you should be pushy | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
with your GP to get the best drugs. We are encouraged to adopt an | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
American attitude, according to NICE, who decide which drugs are | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
local authorities should be funding. That assumes you are confident in | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
front of your GP and I am sure many people still feel deferential in | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
front of a family doctor. And it assumes that you even know which | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
drugs are available to you and you should be getting. Absolutely. This | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
story, the chairman of NICE says we must be more like the Americans. You | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
go in and demand the drugs you want. That is very different because the | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
whole health service in America is very different. We have all done | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
it. You go to the doctor and you say, I am going to ask this and | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
this, and you come out and go, I forgot to ask any of that, because | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
you get the white coat syndrome. He says he wants people to be more like | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
Americans but American people are a product of the American health | :08:42. | :08:43. | |
system, which is alien to us. Completely alien. If you look at the | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
trouble that Obama has had getting very minor social insurance compare | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
to what we had in 1948-9, when the NHS started. It is a very weird | :08:54. | :09:01. | |
story and what he is trying to say. We are told all the time the NHS is | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
on its knees and he is saying there are loads of these drugs, just ask | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
for them and be more assertive. The but only the ones that NICE has | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
approved. That is the vital part. We hear stories about wonder drugs that | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
NICE will not approve, and aren't they bad people. Doesn't he have a | :09:22. | :09:28. | |
point that maybe some of us could take more responsibility for our | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
health, to get ourselves informed about what we are entitled to? Yes, | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
there is a big part to play for that in terms of talking about | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
information prescriptions. Send people home with basically a fact | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
sheet so they find out about their condition. But that is not the same | :09:46. | :09:53. | |
as being pushy. That is being well informed. He says he does not want | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
people to be confrontational. It is a fine line between being pushy and | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
confrontational. It is assuming you go there and are educated and | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
articulate, but if you are a little old lady who goes there, who may not | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
be up-to-date to go on the internet and find out what she should have, | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
it's outrageous. If you have a parent with a chronically sick | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
child... I am fairly sure this doctor, this professor would not | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
want people coming in who have just been on the internet. Everybody | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
knows, anybody who has been unwell and looks on the internet, they go | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
to the doctor going, what have I got? ! This other story in the Daily | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
Telegraph, Heinrich Himmler's love letters to his wife, documenting the | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
rise and fall of the Nazi regime, being made public for the first | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
time. They are in a bank vault at the moment in Tel Aviv. It will make | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
fascinating if uncomfortable reading. What I find fascinating | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
about this is you wonder how the Israeli family got hold of these | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
letters. It is an extraordinary story. Whenever you see any Nazis | :11:06. | :11:16. | |
painted in a humanlike, it is always mind-boggling. Is it a good thing or | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
a bad thing? He is a monster. Is it a good thing to think that he is | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
like the rest of us and we are all capable of it, in a way, or is it a | :11:25. | :11:34. | |
bad thing to have him humanised? Let's look at the Daily Mail. | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
Drug-taking teachers let back into class. New roles allow convicted | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
users to keep their jobs if they have a convicted record. How will | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
parents feel about that idea, if these people are supposed to be | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
morally guiding their children for several hours a week? There have | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
been rows before between the teaching union and some teachers, | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
because when schools have tried to enforce compulsory drug teaching, | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
and it is a debate that happens in America as well because teachers say | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
it is against Civil Liberties, and a lot of parents, you would not want | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
some drug crazed teacher teaching your children. Should people be | :12:19. | :12:25. | |
given a second chance? Realistically I don't think most parents will mind | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
because most parents have been doing the same. Do you think? We are how | :12:29. | :12:36. | |
long since the drugs revolution of the 60s? We are not talking major | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
drugs offences. It may not be what you want for your kids. Minor drugs | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
offences. I don't think we are talking Howard Marks. Personal use. | :12:48. | :12:57. | |
Let's move on to a final one. It is in the 's times, | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
there is a picture of three of the national uniforms that the teams | :13:02. | :13:09. | |
will be wearing. The Chevron one is for Norway, the one in the middle is | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
the United States and the one on the right, the semi-rainbow, and Adidas | :13:15. | :13:24. | |
creation for Germany. They are beyond shocking. The French and the | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
Italians are great. But everybody else's outfits are just awful. You | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
think, these poor athletes, they have dedicated the last three years | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
of their lives to getting up at dawn, no boozing and they have to | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
wear the most outrageous outfits. Which one would you choose? Blimey. | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
The Chevron is, I suppose. Don't combine with your tie! James and | :13:50. | :13:59. | |
Louise will be back at 11:30pm. Stay with us because we will be looking | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
at the government's claimed that new figures on wages prove most of us | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
are better off. Now it is time for Sportsday. | :14:10. | :14:16. | |
Hello and welcome to Sportsday - I'm Lizzie Greenwood-Hughes. The | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
headlines tonight - From the Blues to the Reds - Juan Mata breaks | :14:21. | :14:22. | |
Manchester United's transfer | :14:23. | :14:23. |