27/04/2014 The Papers

following criticism of his government's handling of the ferry

tragedy. Hello and welcome to `` to our look

ahead at the morning papers. Whitney is Lucy Cavendish, a Telegraph

journalist. `` with me. The front pages. The Independent leads on new

rules to drive the long`term unemployed into work. It says they

will be forced to attend job centres every day. The FT says talks between

China and the US appear the most promising abutments and 20 years on

climate change. The metro says a triple killer has been awarded ?800

in compensation after prison guards broke his nasal clippers and failed

to apologise. The Telegraph says that high taxes are stifling

entrepreneurs in Britain. The Guardian says a leading doctor has

questioned whether understaffing on maternity wards is contributing to

Britain's hi def `` high levels of maternity deaths. There are no

suggestions that the deaths in Afghanistan were a response of enemy

action. We have `` photographs on the front page of the Telegraph of

the soldiers who died. Obviously it is tragic and when the story broke

everybody thought they had been shot down. The Taliban wanted the claim

that was the case but it seems it was not the case and there was an

investigation of what has happened but the photographs really bring it

home to you, these people who were just about to leave Afghanistan, and

it is really tragic and terrible for their families. Every time we hear

these wonderful tribute about these amazing people who always have so

much promise. Yes, I suppose the MoD has become more sophisticated in

messaging than maybe in the past, with these deaths they have issued

statements from former colleagues and so on. The MoD wants to make the

point that these are real people and there is a real human cost. They

want to respect these people by making that point. Sometimes you

forget people are still out there and it is still happening. The

dangers in this part of the world are so many, even making the seems

secure. Yes, flying a helicopter is dangerous even in the North Sea. The

soldiers are at a huge risk. It reinforces the point that projecting

military force is very dangerous and expensive in terms of lives even if

people are not in the firing line at a particular point, which is to be

amended when we look at other potential conflicts around the

world. Let's move on and look at the independent. The first story is that

the jobless must sign on every day. The government will dock money from

the unemployed if they don't comply. At the moment you have to go every

couple of weeks and say you are able to work. Wonder how they are going

to cope with the queues. I made a spreadsheet about this! Of course

you did! If it takes only two minutes for somebody to seek each of

these individuals, and it will probably take more, they are going

to have to hire over 2000 people to process this. They are certainly

going to create 2000 more jobs. It is very expensive policy, it might

seem like a good idea but it will not be cheap. I am not sure it is a

good idea because how are you supposed to find a job if you are

going to the job centre every day. Part of it is that you have to show

you are actively looking for work, you don't just go and sign on. There

are various schemes where you have to do voluntary work and if you

don't turn up your benefits are cut. All sorts of things are in

place at the moment. There is a problem here that partially this

takes the box of people who think feckless unemployed people, and they

don't want jobs. It is a lot more complicated than that on the ground.

A lot of people who I know who are unemployed are really struggling,

they can't find jobs, they are depressed, they have completely gone

out of the market and it is hard to get back in. People who are

long`term unemployed often have motor `` have multiple issues they

are trying to overcome. They could have health issues, mental health

issues, all kinds of reasons. Every time there is a programme like

Benefits Street, afterwards we have columnists saying this shows how

many people don't want to work. Those are extreme cases. This is

what this is trying to tackle and it is a very strong measure. There are

two sides to it, on the one hand they want to make sure that

everybody who can work goes out and gets a job. This policy, is this the

thing that is going to achieve it? It is certainly not going to

overcome some of the reasons why these people are not in the

workforce, problems with skills or other reasons. There is a way out of

it, you can volunteer to do voluntary work for six months. You

would have to do voluntary work for six months. Apparently Oxfam will

not take them because they are being forced to volunteer! There are jobs

like working at city zoos, I think that might be quite a good thing to

do, but if you are volunteering how are you going to find a job? To look

for jobs generally you have to be online, a lot of people can't afford

the Internet charges. You can get into a real self`perpetuating motion

feeling you are unemployable. Coming after another attempt to use a more

firm approach to get people into the workforce, and that was not very

successful, with Atos. The administrative difficulties. This

could be very difficult structural. The Guardian, understaffing in the

NHS linked to baby deaths. Reasonable to ask if resource crisis

has a tragic impact, this is a top doctor voicing alarm. It is a

shocking number of a bees dying in a first world nation. `` babies.

Apparently we have the third worst stillbirth rate among 30 high income

countries. When people go to have a baby they basically assume... I had

my babies at home because I was worried about high intervention

rates. The issue about that and women who want to have even a home

birth is that the insurance the midwives to see people at home has

been taken away. The midwife who I had who helped me give birth, she

could no longer do that, she is not allowed to practice that any more.

You have a real problem with what is going on. Women really have to go to

hospitals, there are not enough midwives, not enough money. People

are sitting in corridors. There is a lot of interventions, a lot of panic

about these statistics so I think a lot of women are getting themselves

into a lot of difficulty giving birth because of the stress. Isn't

there a problem with some of these statistics because some of them

relate to 2009, when Labour were in power and a lot of money was still

being spent in the NHS. These figures were still stubbornly high.

We very frequently seem to be getting interviews from senior

medical figures complaining about underfunding so there is an issue

that one looks at this a bit sceptically to say, well, the person

would say that, they want more money to come into their business. But he

does raise some serious questions, he is saying we should be looking

into this and asking the question. To me, it begs the question, are we

looking into it? Are people going through the data trying to

understand why there are the problems? He says it is not just

about funding, he says there are potentially bad decisions being made

by medical staff. At a coroner's inquest they might not get the level

of detail useful to see what improvements can be made. A lot of

stillbirths are unexplained and they also say there has been a big

increase in the birth rate and there is not enough staff to cover that,

while funding has also been slashed a bit. Let's move on to the

Independent, Pope Francis says two former Popes are being made saints

in a joint ceremony. I love all that, I think it is great, we should

make as many saints as possible. You don't think it is nonsense? Why is

it nonsense? It is great. When you put this into your computer what

does it say? This is really interesting, everybody is going

through the Vatican equivalent of Kremlinology. We have Pope John

XXIII, considered to be quite liberal, he was behind Vatican II

and a lot of other reforms, whereas John Paul II was seen as quite a

strict Catholic in terms of his the ology. But he travelled a lot and he

was very well`known. Do you have to get elected, how did it work? It is

not quite a democracy! They must have a hotline to Saint Peter. It

makes for a lovely picture. Finally, the Daily Telegraph, we

always seem to touch on this stuff with you two. Being married can make

you depressed. After years of advice saying married makes `` being

married makes you happier and longer lived, studies say it can also lead

to depression. I am going to quibble because I don't think the research

has said this. The research as far as I know has said that married men

are happier and single women are happy. When you put it in the

computer that is what it is going to tell you. Married women have to do

too much work in their marriage whereas men have a very nice time

being looked after. So being married if you are woman can make you

depressed. Anyone would think you were married to Tom. I would.

Depressed if I was! I suppose for men, there is the contentment that

comes with being married. He has his breakfast made. My three`year`old is

very good at making breakfast for me! This feeds into the cliches that

women hope they'll change their man and the wife won't change. I wasn't

surprised. I've got to stop Tom waxing lyrical about marriage again.

Hope his wife's watching! Back again at 11. 30 for a look at the stories

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