14/02/2014 The Papers

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Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow. With me are journalist Eva Simpson and

broadcaster Alice Arnold. Tomorrow's front pages. A lot of the

papers are showing a picture of Lizzy Yarnold.

Lizzy Yarnold features on the front of the Express, which also has some

good news, finally, about the weather, saying "storm misery to end

at last". The i also goes with the weather,

saying the storms are "wreaking destruction" across the UK.

The Telegraph has an interview with the Archbishop of Westminster who

has been criticising the government's welfare reforms,

claiming they "punish the poor." The Mail claims the NHS is losing

the files of almost 2,000 patients every day.

And the Independent says there is "an immigration crisis on Britain's

doorstep". It says hundreds of refugees from war-torn countries are

being left to rot in a camp. I want to come back to the Winter

Olympics and Team GB's success later, but the story that is

dominating so many of the papers is the ongoing storms, and the headline

in the Express, storm misery to end at last. An optimistic note. Very

optimistic. Given the weather in the past few weeks and months, it is

great news, but if you scroll down to the sub headline it says only

after violent 80 mph wind, snow and rain. So... Yes, I think the

forecast is a little better but the storms are obviously not at their

peak for some of the country. We are expecting high wind tomorrow, even

in London, up to 60 mph and higher across the rest of the country. At

first glance, this is quite a pleasing headline but when you read

further into the story, it is not all that it seems. And there is more

rain. Yes, but all the BBC whether staff know their stuff. And they are

all generally saying the extremes of the low pressures, which is what is

causing the wind and storms, they will not be as extreme. That is what

they see in the long-term forecast. Any forecaster will tell you they

cannot forecast more than three or four days in advance, but the

Express, for once, might be sort of right, that the absolute worst of it

is over. However, the Telegraph contradict that, and they say we

have warnings of flooding until spring. Flooding can go on longer

than the bad weather, because the weather -- the water seeps through

and it takes quite a long time to make floods, so the rain happening

now might not affect flooding for a week or so. So the flooding could go

on much longer than the storms. The Telegraph suggest it will go on for

a considerable time and that should not surprise anyone, sadly. I like

the very small cartoon, with a couple, and the man is holding up a

speeding fine notice which says, our roof was photographed on the road

doing 85 mph. Humour in despair. I think it will take many people along

time to see any humour in this situation, given the appalling

circumstances they find themselves in. Many of the newspapers are going

to this. But there is no doubt that the amount of homes still without

power, we have the updated figure earlier, as was an considerably from

24-hour 's ago. Seeing the Somerset Levels, it is no surprise, even with

no more rain, that the headline will be correct. It is long-term for

these people. Long after those who have not been flooded have forgotten

about the floods, those people will still be dealing with not being able

to get back into their homes. It takes months. And insurance. And

insurance, which will be a problem, or getting insurance next time,

which they may not be able to do. But just the upheaval of having your

home ruined, for thousands, is dreadful. And it won't be in the

headlines for that much longer but they will still be dealing with it.

And if you do sort it out, you will be wondering what the happening 12

months. Will the floods return? Some people have only just finished their

house from the previous occasion. On to the Daily Mail and a different

story. The only paper that has this story, the headline, 2000 NHS

patients' records are lost every day. It is slightly compensated

because they are lost in lots of different ways. We were reading this

earlier, and we were struck because it said many of the records had been

sold on eBay. I know you can get many things on eBay, what patient

records! -- but patient records! But it is not quite that. It turns out

that among other things, three former NHS computers were sold on

eBay. It strikes me as a bizarre way to... And the hard drives allegedly

had not been wiped. Again, it would cause concern. We constantly hear

stories about data going missing and things ending up in skips, in dumps

in the back of cars. As a patient, you expect your records to be

treated with the utmost care, so the fact that they are being discarded

all over the place is worrying. Even left in a grocery store, apparently.

They are talking about the records of GPs being left lying around,

which I would have thought they would not be taking out with them

anyway, but maybe it is on tablets or something. It strikes me as

incredibly odd that the NHS would be selling their second-hand computers

on eBay. 2000 records every day. That is extraordinary. It is an

incredible lack of security and it has to be tightened up. They are

asking us if we will let records be kept on databases. No wonder people

are mistrusting of that. Doing the maths, 600,000 odd a year are going

missing. I have not seen that story anywhere else apart from the Daily

Mail. Onto the financial Times. I think this is an interesting

headline. This is all, is it not, Alice, all about what it is calling

the middle-class, but how the middle-class is diverging. Yes, it

is a history of the middle-class, and they are talking about from

1975, 40 years ago, the difference of what we called a middle-class

person then and what we call a middle-class person now, in terms of

income. And the group, of course, that have stretched away and are

becoming completely separate from the rest of what we all consider

middle-class, are the bankers. So it says the average earning for a

banker is ?102,000. That is what we are talking about as an average, so

obviously many bankers get paid an awful lot more than that. Whereas

academics, who we would have considered very middle-class and

high earners 40 years ago, they are now not considered high earners and

they are run under 50,000, just about getting into the 40% tax rate.

-- they are on under 50,000. So this is a new phenomenon. There is a new

layer of middle-class, led by the financial services, who are paid

extraordinary sums of money. Professions which were once

considered middle-class and high earning, academics, mechanical

engineers and so on, wages have not kept up. I think this is something

that has been talked about over the past few months, the idea of the

squeezed middle, the middle classes. . #baffled somebody earning

?40,000 a year is going to look at the banker bonuses and think, they

are meant to be in the same bracket? In the grand scheme of things, it is

still a very high salary to be earning, over ?40,000. I think the

national level is much lower than that. Still, for a professional or

academic, I would expect they would be earning more than that. The

Financial Times reminds us that we had the general election of 1

million miles away, sometime over the next year or so Labour are

planning to restore the 50p rate for people earning over ?50,000. Some

Conservatives are pressing for a reduction. Can you see that playing

very big over the next few months, once the floods are over, as a

mystic story? Is The economy always plays big when it comes to the

election, yes. I think I would be surprised if the Conservatives went

for 40p. It's brought joy to lots of people, great news from Sochi, where

Team GB has won a gold medal, or, more appropriately, Lizzy Yarnold

has won a gold medal on the skeleton. Lots of papers showing

great photos. Certainly in The Times, a picture of her lying as

flat as possible. Boy, do they go quickly? Do you fancy doing this?

No, but it has brought joy to us. They don't have a track in England.

They don't have one of those I see things. Whatever it is called. They

trained to do the running. The running bets are really important.

The sprinting bit. She was a sprinter. What they do with the

English lot is they pick a few really good sprinters, train them to

do the sprinting bit. And in the winter they go to other countries

that do have the hurdy-gurdy track thing. And we are obviously very

good. Expert analysis! We are very good at pushing 80 trade. She spoke

very well. Her interview was brilliant, I loved it. It was really

inspirational, encouraging people to follow their dreams, pursue their

dreams, not give up. Great for women's sport and great for her.

Lets hope there is more medals on the way. That is it for the papers

this hour. A big thank you to our guests. You will both be back at

11:30 for another look at the stories making the news tomorrow.

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