31/03/2014 The Papers

more on what was an embarrassing by England against the Netherlands in

the Twenty20 at Bangladesh. Welcome to our look at tomorrow's

papers. My guests are the publicist and former Conservative

vice`chairman Tim Collins, and the Deputy Editor of the Guardian, Paul

Johnson. Let's have a look at some of the

front pages. The Independent is looking at the sale of Royal mail

and says that the government and taxpayers appear to have been

fleeced by sophisticated city investors who made a quick buck on

the flotation. The FT says that regulators are investigating foreign

exchange manipulation by some banks. The mattresses that the advice to

eat five portions of fruit and vegetables per day should be doubled

to ten. That is the same story on the front of the Daily Telegraph. It

says that ten portions could significantly reduce the chance of

early death. The Daily Express say that their readers only need seven

portions per day. The Guardian says that doctors are concerned that a

major disease outbreak could kill thousands of people because

hospitals cannot test life`saving drugs quickly enough. The Daily Mail

says the police Federation paid a PR company on advice about using

guerrilla tactics against government ministers. The Times reports that

David Cameron will investigate the Muslim Brotherhood, amid fears that

it is planning extremist activities here in Britain. Let's start with

the Daily Mail. Apparently a PR firm was paid for advice on using

guerrilla tactics against government ministers. This was the week before

the pleb gate scandal. This story makes me deeply uncomfortable. I

think Andrew Mitchell was treated appallingly and I think that there

are a number of police officers who behaved wrong. I am surprised that

the police are not allies. Margaret Thatcher was clear that they are the

thin blue line, not just another public interest organisation. They

protect us and sometimes they lose their lives protecting us against

violent corridors. It is extraordinary to me that we should

have a position where the relationship between the police and

Conservatives should be as bad as it is. Both sides need to research the

relationship. This comes in the same day as the first annual assessment

of policing. That made very sobering reading, following the suggestion

that there were irregularities during the whole affair. The

investigation into Stephen Lawrence 's murder. This story traces back

the campaign over pay and conditions were they wanted to enter a military

style blitzkrieg to halt this move, turning to a PR agency. Its CEO is

someone with a chequered past. He was a talk`show host who in a chat

over smoking with a listener on the other end of the line described him

as an ignorant peak and health Nazi, for which he censured. Some of

the late that giving advice on a cogent strategy to the police

Federation seems rather peculiar. Your firm, the PR company that you

work for, you have worked with the police in the past? Leatherback my

colleagues did some years ago. We try to put together opportunities

for them to build better relationships with the government.

They need a PR firm. It looks like, rightly or wrongly, they decided

that they can get a better relationship with government and so

they decided to go to war with them, which is not a clever tactic

whatever group you are in. The government of the day of the ones

who are elected by the people to take decisions. It is regrettable.

The government have not had a litter smoothly as they could have done

because they have given the strong impression that they think the

police are just another campaigning group for people trying to protect

privileges. The police Federation has gone over the line at times. It

is not acceptable for any campaigning group to take the view

that there should go to war against the government. This is the sort of

land which had 30 or 40 years ago in different context. I hope everybody

comes out and if this leads to anything at all, should be a belief

that sitting down having a quiet conversation with each other is

better than this kind of guerrilla war tactics. Let's go onto the

times. A story concerning terrorism. David Cameron has ordered

an urgent investigation into the Muslim Brotherhood, amid fears that

the Islamic organisation is planning extremist activities in Britain.

That is a fairly inflammatory introduction there. It is an

interesting story. There is to be an enquiry and it will be undertaken by

John Jenkins, Britain's Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. The last paragraph

reads slightly differently. It reads that a senior foreign and, of office

figures have resisted the prescription because I doing that if

they attack a largely moderate body, it will only bolster extremists. The

story partly says is world that the only places that the Muslim

Brotherhood are outlawed at the moment is Egypt, Syria, Saudi

Arabia, and Russia, I think. Has this been over eight? The story does

not say that they were allegedly planning extremist activities in

Britain, but from Britain. One of the visit is important about the way

that the story is panning out is that London, like it or not, has

become something of a bolthole for people who are in difficulties with

their governments from all over the East. The West collectively, not

just the UK, has not got it right about Egypt because a democratically

elected president, maybe somebody would not agree with, but he was

democratically elected, he was overthrown by the military and we

have not done much at all in the West to condemn that. We are

supposedly people who believe in democracy and it seems that we

should have taken a stronger stance against that overthrew will stop

when that the Egyptians would love other countries to treat the Muslim

Brotherhood as a terrorist organisation. As it is the story,

one week they sentenced 529 members of the Muslim Brotherhood to death.

I am not at all sure that we should be contemplating being on the side

of the Egyptian military in this dispute. The Muslim Brotherhood are

not a perfect organisation, their beliefs are disagreeable. I

understand that one of their stances is that only a Muslim man should be

allowed to be President of Egypt. That is not be the most people in

Britain would agree with but they could win an election and should not

just take the view that they have set some things we do not like so we

should back the military and overthrow the. What is the Guardian

's response in reporting the situation in Egypt? Bearing in mind

that he was elected democratically: Mohammed Morsi, and he was

overturned. It was a coup. What is your papers stands on this? Yes. We

have a permanent Cairo `based correspondent, whose reporting is

very difficult ever have two go very much for on the line reporting on

the ground. He has done things like investigations of massacres and so

on. You have to be very evenhanded, you can be driven ideologically

reporting these things. He has been roughed up several times and had

equipment confiscated. It is a very difficult place to report from

because you are identified with either one side or the other. For

many people in the Middle East, they regard the West is hypocritical

because we say we believe in democracy and if they elect somebody

that we do not like in the military thread about we did not say anything

about it. The express reports... No, I apologise, let's go to the

Telegraph. Double your five a day, Paul, to live longer. It is now

supposed to be ten portions per day. We all confused about what you are

meant to do. There is some inflation creeping in here. Some of the papers

say seven, others say no it is ten. The Telegraph goes for ten. They are

saying it is not just fruit and vegetables, vegetables are better

than fruit. There thinking that taxes on sugary foods could be

brought in to subsidise this and there is a terrific quote from the a

professor from the Department of Public health at the University of

Liverpool who said that the advice should be ten portions per day.

Humans are designed to be omnivores and a handful of nuts, seeds, fruit,

and the occasional antelope, were not meant to be `` we are not meant

to be eating drugged food. That includes fruit and vegetables in a

canned, that is not part of it. We are also designed to be dead and 30,

submitted a judge things about what Neanderthals were doing. It turns

out that a lot of the things that we were told contribute towards the

five a day, actually do not count at all. Fruit used is not count, canned

fruit does not count, vegetables that are frozen do not count either.

A lot of people and businesses out there will have to think very

carefully about how they can advertise their products. The

express says seven per day rather than ten. It has decided that this

is the line. Seven per day were ten per day, should you be having fruit

and vegetables out of ten is not, it is very confusing. The public are

wondering, went away time, what to do? It is also confusing. It is

expensive to eat a vegetarian diet of that sort. Some people would say

that. Education counts as well. Some of these groups will be

self`selecting and this is not a simple process but it does grab

headlines and it does raise awareness. Should not be easier when

you are going the supermarket checkout and the petrol station to

pick things up, should it be easier to get fruit and vegetables that?

David Cameron was laughed at when he told off WHSmith were having the

chocolate orange right at the point where you got to the checkout. It

should have been a real orange. Why not? It should be cheaper but also

more convenient. It is harder to get the essential stuff and easier to

get chocolates and crisps. Let's move on to it is time to let pandas

die out. It is meeting season for the couple in Edinburgh zoo but a

noted naturalist suggests that it is time that without them die out. He's

trying to be provocative here. I understand the point because if you

apply logic to human beings' actions towards a national world, it is not

get you far. The reason that people get up in arms about badges and

Foxes is because they appear cuddly. You do not see a lot of people

campaigning to set the right or other unappealing creatures in the

panda is cute and cuddly. The truth is that this is why they are so

loved, particularly by children. There would be a lot of people who

would be heartbroken if we said that it is very difficult and so we let

them die off. I can understand why he is making the point, but they are

a symbol. If he did not have this kind of campaign to protect them,

the money would not be redirected elsewhere, it just would not be

spent on protecting animals at all. Chris Buck told the radio Times

exactly the same thing in 2009. Page nine of The Sun. The Queen drilled

for gas in the back garden. It is this and April Full's? It is a

wonderful story it is obviously nonsense. The clue that it is a

April Fool is that the people who are quoted is a campaigner with the

surname fuel. The funny thing is... There is another one in the Times.

They are a bit spoiled for choice because we have one story saying

interactions with your computer can provoke a mixture of emotions. What

about a computer that would read your mind from the expressions on

your face and respond appropriately. Below that, Apple is

talking about doing away with bumping into lampposts or being run

over. And then possibly this one, this is a German duke who is related

to the Stuarts who has a long lineage. The Windsors of course. The

clue is where they cite an academic who support this with the name that

sounds a bit suspicious. We Are Apps or that is Gaelic for April Fool.

The Dukes of Saxony died out in the 1300. It has been great having you.

Many, many thanks. Stay with us on BBC News because much more is coming

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