11/05/2014 The Papers

years. Coming up on the film review, does Michael Fassbender in a mask

turn Frank into art hit? We will find out. Hello and welcome to our

look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are

the Political Journalist Sean Dilley and the broadcaster Penny Smith.

Nice to have you here, most of the time. The Metro leads with a record

number of serial criminals being allowed to walk free with suspended

sentences, in an effort to keep down the prison population. The

Telegraph's front page features celebrating Manchester City players

as they lift the Premier League cup. Their main headline claims

pensioners shouldn't rely on government plans designed to limit

the cost of care. The Guardian reports a sharp increase in the

number of soldiers returning from Afghanistan and Iraq seeking help

for mental health issues. The Times has more on the Take That tax row,

frontman Gary Barlow now facing criticism from the Prime Minister

for paying into a tax avoidance scheme. The Daily Mail has more on

the government's policy of in`depth questioning for anyone seeking a

mortgage. And claims from Stephen Sutton, the teen with cancer who has

been fundraising for charity, that doctors initially missed his

disease. The Daily Mirror has dramatic claims of loan sharks

harassing unnamed mothers outside a school. The FT pictures a woman in

the Ukraine casting her vote in one of the self`rule referendums in the

east of the country. The headline says they polls will herald a

break`up of the country. And finally the Independent claims soap and

other household chemicals could be directly linked to a rise in male

infertility. Completely new set of front`page stories this hour.

Times. The Archbishop calls for talks with Boko Haram. Justin Welby

says negotiations are necessary with the extremist who have kidnapped

students from a school in Nigeria. What he warned it will be very

difficult to do that. Yes, he also warns they are essentially

irrational. Anyone who saw that chilling video would agree with that

assessment. They would undoubtedly agree with the fact that

negotiations there would be extremely collocated. What we forget

is that the Archbishop of Canterbury entered the church in his 30s and

was an oil executive. So he has dealt with the forerunners of Boko

Haram in the Niger Delta, when he was an oil executive. He is

well`placed to know what he is talking about. Negotiations seem to

suggest compromise and concessions. How do you negotiate with people who

think that girls should not go to school? I'm not sure that you can. I

am not sure that Justin Welby think so either, I think that what he is

doing is being constructive about the situation, when girls are being

sold for ?8 effectively. He is saying that we need to start talking

to Boko Haram, and get some dialogue going. I suppose if you can get some

dialogue doing, you might be able to gain some form of concession. Make

such a future less likely. Certainly the talks about sending in the SAS,

which people want to do at the drop of hat without understanding the

situation. And the massive area. It is an area of vast jungle. All the

SAS regiments operate with tremendous prowess, but people

expect them to be superheroes. They are highly trained and incredibly

brave, but in some situations, they are not the solution. The other

thing with groups like this, if you give them a name, the Taliban, or

Boko Haram, and we expect them to be a cohesive group, so actually

getting a hold of them can be problematic. It is like talks with

any organisation which is a loose affiliation, if you like. Let's move

on to the Guardian. Ministers call for free schools Budget curb. This

is an argument about how funding for schools in England is being

divided. The suggestion is that Michael Gove is so ideological eat

obsessed that he is diverging money to Free Schools. And locally run

schools are missing out. This language, they should be given

detention! The quote unquote lunacy and pathetic, you work in the mother

of all parliaments. I appreciate that standards have been very low in

terms of debating, not with the select committees but in the

chamber, but Lord Almighty! What you are seeing here is politicking at

its very worst. Let's run over the main issues. They are important

issues, and ?800 million black hole, criticism of ?400 million for

the free school meal programme, and if we look back to the 2010

election, with all parties promising, particularly the Lib

Liberal Democrats. What you are seeing here. Watch this. This is

important. These are the acyl lines upon which the Liberal Democrats

will be fighting the Conservatives at the next election. Their argument

is that they are not taking money away from school places at creating

school places in a different way. Are, but hold on a second. In this

article, Michael Gove is accused by the Liberal Democrats of raiding the

Budget by ?400 million to help prop up the Free Schools programme.

Meanwhile, Conservatives of cost`saving nick Clegg can't ring in

free school meals for five or seven `year`olds because it is too

expensive `` Nick Clegg. I think money is found when he wants to find

it. There is a lot of talk about protecting the schools Budget. And

we are talking about the back office, as we know, the back office

and the front office can be separate. Staying with the Guardian,

we have one. Iran claims victory in the war. They say that all they have

done is encourage radical groups. This is Iran and its close ally

Assad claiming they have won the war in Syria. Senior Iranians officials

have told the Guardian. They have one in Syria, the regime will stay,

the rebels have lost. This is of course the slightly more complicated

than just that. Shia Muslim Iran is their main backup. They have propped

up the regime since the first revolt in 2011. They have continually

bolstered Assad in the teeth of attempts to destroy him. It does

seem that Syria and Assad have held on to power, at what cost? They say

they want easily, tell that to the victims. However, most people would

surely have known that when we saw the Arab Spring in other places, we

knew that Syria would be a very different prospect. Absolutely, and

historically, militarily in the region. What is fascinating about

this, America is doing jolly well in this war. You talk about the Arab

Spring, you look at Egypt, and is Mubarak did terrible things, but

actually intelligence sources say the one thing he did do is deliver

some form of stability to the Middle East, which at the moment is in such

a state of flux. To a degree, you wonder what extent we want to be

involving ourselves with it. Let's look at the Mail. What a mortgage?

Don't eat steak. These are bizarre questions you will be asked if you

want a mortgage. They are cracking down. You will be asked about

whether you play golf, how much you eat, whether you are planning to

have another child. Absolutely. I wasn't actually offering, I was

transposing myself. moving on, I wonder whether he is looking at a

post` prime ministerial thing. If we were to lose Scotland, not that he

says he will be going. Maybe he is trying to get a mortgage. But

actually, the serious point here is finance is being stretched. We will

see interest rates on the rise towards next year. You could, but

that is what will happen. There is stress testing going on to see what

the effect is going to be economically. The question is

whether you can often a mortgage even if the interest rate goes up.

And it is difficult, because the trouble is there is this tension

particularly in the south with a huge bubble. You don't have much

choice to take out a great big loan if you want to buy a house. it is

worth talking about this whole thing in terms of houses anyway. People

money, they have not been spending money, they have not been spending

on the mortgage. You see a lot of houses going cheap, potentially

crashes. It is bad news, I'm afraid. It is a huge worry. Is it a huge

worry? When normal people, how are normal people even going to afford a

house. What is a normal person? Well, just normal people doing

normal jobs. I saw a flat the other day which was essentially what I

would call a cupboard. It did not even have a loo. Can you sell such a

property? Here is the window, it is that. Let's go back to The Wife of

Bath's Tale. This is an extra ordinary man who has raised over ?3

million for charity. He says his cancer was initially missed by

doctors. He will always be angry that the doctors missed his cancer.

There is something else which struck me here. He says I don't measure

life in time, at what you can do. That is a moving thing to read. All

of this, I don't think I can read it out because it kept making the well

up, because so much of his blog just makes you want to go and grab life.

In many ways, it is awful and terrible, but in the same way, that

you were saying I don't measure life in time but by what you can do, and

you could live to be 100 and is never achieve what he has. Exactly.

And on his bucket list, he says ?10,000 is what he wanted to raise,

and he has raised ?3.2 million. An amazing chap. Everybody has

legitimate concerns in this world. We all have our worries, but it is

life`affirming. The fact that he says, why would you waste your life

saying it is not good? Worrying about these menial things, this is

somebody who is going to die, potentially, and let us hope there

is some miracle, around the age of 19. He says to grab life and live

it. Amazing. The Independent. Chemicals in soap can cause mail

infertility. That's it, I am not washing ever again. You won't be

welcome here. I think when I am on the Chew, I know men who probably

don't have any problem with this `` on the tube. This has concerned

people for a long time. You think about it, in your home, you are

stuck with the vapours and fumes of all these chemicals without really

thinking about what you are breathing in. We know there is

oestrogen in the water supplies in the United Kingdom, that is why many

people drink spring water, but some of these chemicals are found in

substances like toothpaste and soap. Toothpaste, soap, children's

plastic toys. And this is a man whose name we like. I am just trying

to find it. An excellent name, from the Copenhagen University Hospital

in Denmark. He has noticed a 50% drop in low sperm count in the last

50 years. What are you supposed to do? I know there are more natural

alternatives. A lot of them say this, but as you say, the trouble

is, it is those things like when flame retardant material et cetera.

In short men live longer. They may have jokes at their expense of but

they will have the last laugh after all. If you are under five foot two,

and I don't know many who are. Tom Cruise is five foot five. And many

famous men are short. So there we are. But the argument is that

shorter men are more likely to have longevity genes leading to a smaller

body size and a longer lifespan. I don't know about that, being at

around six foot. Thank you both for being here. That is all for

tonight. Stay with us here on BBC News: At midnight we'll have the

latest from Ukraine ` where at least one person has died after government

forces opened fire near crowds in the east of the country. But coming

up next it's time for The Film Review with Gavin Esler and Mark

Kermode. Hello. Welcome to the Film Review. To take us through the

cinema releases, Mark Kermode. It's a very good week, Frank, a film

inspired by but not based on the character of Frank