09/06/2014 The Papers

weight of the grasscourt tennis season for the men's number two and

three at Queens. Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers

will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are Isabel Hardman of the

Spectator, Torcuil Crichton of the Daily Record, and from Glasgow, with

100 days of campaigning to go before the Scottish referendum, Richard

Walker of the Sunday Herald. Tomorrow's front pages, starting

with: The Metro dedicates its front page to the Young Ones comedian Rik

Mayall, who has died at the age of 56. The Scotsman leads with the Yes

and No camps marking one`hundred days until the Scottish independence

referendum. The maximum fine for speeding is to be quadrupled, rising

to 10,000 pounds, according to the Telegraph. The Ofsted report into 21

Birmingham schools is the Guardian's main story. The paper quotes

Education Secretary Michael Gove as saying schools must "promote British

values". The FT says moves from central banks have extinguished

volatility in global financial markets. Glasgow newspaper the Daily

Record marks the death of comedian Rik Mayall and reports that Alex

Salmond says he'll remain as First Minister if Scotland returns a no

vote in September. The Times reports that all children will be taught

British values of liberty and tolerance from September following

today's Ofsted report. And the Daily Mail goes with the same story

reporting on what it says is a "damning verdict" by Ofsted. So

let's begin. A damning verdict by Ofsted. Trojan horse schools. The

fact is that the report from Ofsted, it didn't really go as far as saying

that hardline Muslims were trying to take over the schools. No, it did

not find any evidence of a Trojan horse plot as alleged in the

original letter which sparked the investigations. But to a certain

extent, the fact that there wasn't a plot was almost as worrying. This

infiltration without there being something systematic and organised

and the extent to which strict Islamist practices and was in

practices were being introduced in these schools is worrying. Because

there wasn't something organised going on. It was almost easier to do

it without it. It is the kind of report that might reflect badly on

an education secretary. It is happening on his watch. How do you

think Michael Gove comes out of this, bearing in mind some of these

allegations were made four years ago? They haven't accounted for it

before he became secretary, it was a worry he had. He is looking for it

and has found it. The so`called Trojan horse plot. It is fairly

damning stuff. The Daily Mail has taken the angle of how bad things

were. Michael Gove said it wasn't his fault and the Home Office should

have stamp this out years ago. The Home Secretary was having none of

that nonsense. She released a letter showing that the Education

Department had been warned about this beforehand, years ago. And so

the ball went backwards and forwards in a very damaging Cabinet row over

the weekend. She had to answer an urgent question, and afterwards made

a statement outlining the Ofsted report and what Michael gof will do

about it. `` Michael Gove. It was very artificial in some places.

Theresa May gave her statement first. And Michael Gove was nodding

furiously, trying to show her approval `` his approval. And she

tried to leave very quickly, and it was immediately indicated that she

should set down. I am sure you are laughing at this in Glasgow,

Richard. The shenanigans which have been going on down here, have the

people of Scotland been following them much or as the debate on

independence taking over everything? It is not taking over everything, it

is a big important debate. I am laughing at this but mainly at the

Daily Mail front page, which begins with a campaign for hardline

Islamist, when it wasn't. It mentions the shocking extent to

which strict Muslim practices are being imposed. That would be the

banning of Raffles from school fates. I am shocked to my very core.

I am starting to get a bit worried about the reporting of this story.

`` fetes. Michael Gove rejects extreme Muslim perspectives? I would

agree with that, I would also reject an extreme Christian perspective.

The Ofsted report is damning. There is no question about that.

Governments do not reach their statutory responsibilities to

safeguard pupils. I don't know about these schools. And nor do you and

nor does anyone in the studio. I know that two years ago, one school

was described as a modern school, and is now is described as failing

in every single category. What has changed in two years? I suspect that

what has changed is what the inspectors are looking for. I wonder

if that changes motivated by politics or standards? Would you

consider that the original inspections are flawed? That it was

all about ticking boxes and not inspecting the actual ethos of these

schools. It must have been fairly flawed the first time if they didn't

realise what had been prohibited. OK. Let's go on to the times. All

schools must teach what is be British. Richard, I will stick with

you on this. Richard, what would you say it means to be British? And is

it possible to get that across in schools?

Where British values and Scottish values start to be defined, that it

is difficult. It is difficult. That will be the problem here. Do you

agree with what Richard was saying, that the application is that Muslim

values or Islamist values potentially are not British values?

You have to recognise this as the political chat it is. `` chaff.

Having to write letters of apology, distracting from the Newark

by`election, the D`Day commendations and everything else. He messed up

badly last week. So he has to do come out and address British values.

The schools involved are a lot more important than political

machinations in Westminster. Isabel, has this hurt Michael Gove? The

suggestion was that after he had to apologise on Sunday, when Theresa

May lost her lieutenant as it were, but she came off the worst. But

longer term, is it really that create? Longer term, it is still

damaging for Theresa May. There are some special advisers in Westminster

who do the job with the department. They make sure the department is

safe and they will stay committed to the department even if the minister

stays on and they would like to stay at the department. Fiona Cunningham,

Theresa May's special adviser, wasn't just ambitious for the Home

Office for Theresa May's you chat. And she was fiercely loyal. If you

criticise her even with one line in a column, you would get a fierce

response from Fiona Cunningham. `` future. In the future she doesn't

have that ally. A week is a long time in politics, and Theresa May

will be around for longer than a week. She is the one who is a tough

cookie and has chewed up and spat out the Police Federation in a

speech which should have been made 25 years ago. She is the one who

stood up and did it. She stood them down. A lot of policemen would

disagree with you on that. A lot of other people also. Yes, but she will

take on her enemies and sit them down. I wouldn't like to be Michael

Gove walking down a dark alley in Westminster. She does bear a grudge.

A lot of this row has to do with the previous row and Cabinet when

Michael Gove gave Theresa May a dressing down in front of her

colleagues. Some slapped him on the back ahead of that. So who knows

what her next revenge will be like? Let's go to the Scotsman. The yes

movement and as referendum nears, do you think Alex Salmond is pouring

whiskey thinking they have lost this? 100 days to go and they

haven't done enough? No, strangely enough I don't think that. I think

right now he is pouring whiskey and saying right, we have 100 days to

go, let's do this. They have gained ground, the yes campaign. They are

still eight points behind, something like that. It varies from Pole to

Pole. What do the SNP and the yes campaign need to do `` poll to poll.

They need to target the people who are undecided and spend all their

time and energy making sure they decide to vote yes. They need to

move the vote towards yes, some polls suggest it has stalled. If it

has, at this stage, there is plenty of time. But that work needs to be

done right now. 20 of time, is there enough time? As the days get

shorter, the odds get longer. With 100 days to go, it is game on. Some

would say that thank goodness there is only 100 days to go. I have

written a short tune to celebrate the fact that it is only 100 days to

go. It has been a long held up. The nationalist camp and the ASCAP is

looking for a game changer. Something to change these odds. ``

that yes camp. It was suggested it would be a good idea if David

Cameron engaged in a TV debate with Alex Salmond, the First Minister of

Scotland. That is exactly what Alex Salmond wants. He wants Scotland

versus the Tories. Salmond versus the E `` Etonians. He said they had

mismanaged things by making it written versus Scotland. Only Scots

being relevant here. He says it has to be a vote promoting two different

visions of what Scotland will be, independent or within the UK. But

the gift to Alex Salmond tonight was Brown's speech. Would people be

wondering why he would say that? His job is to unite the squabbling

factions in the Better Together Campaign. You can't envy that task.

His task is to stay calm and keep a reasonable voice in the know come ``

no camp. And a vote for the status quo, if there is a no vote, that

needs to be not seen as a copout but a good thing for Scotland. It is a

difficult case to make because you don't want to get to emotional, it

is you can never beat the Nationalists at emotion. By saying

that the status quo is excellent. It is about tone, and they have made

things almost boringly quiet. But that is also having a calming effect

on the other camp. Whoever sounds most reasonable will probably win.

With 100 days to go, as it hits 50, 40, 30... We will see a lot of

emotion. From both sides, because a lot is at stake for people. It is

great to see the nationalist side except that they have been a bit too

negative `` acts that. Changing their tactics from `` accept.

Changing their tactics from "no" to "no thanks". Nick Clegg came off

second best in recent debates, that in itself means that we are unlikely

to see a debate. If it doesn't happen for political reasons, and

they don't want portrayed this fight as being between Scotland and posh

boys in Westminster on and I can see the politics behind that. He has

also said that he is passionate about saving the union. And that he

will fight with every fibre of his being to do so. So I am not sure why

the political machinations triumph over his emotional attachment to the

union. So I don't see why he doesn't do the debate. There is more chance

of Scotland winning the World Cup than of David Cameron agreeing to a

debate unless the polls changed dramatically. Or as much chance of

England winning the World Cup. Rick Mayall has died suddenly at the

age of 56 and there is no explanation as of yet why he has so

young. It is such a shock. He was so talented and seemed so healthy and

it must be dreadful for his family to have had no warning at all. Was

there a character like him in your dorm when you were in college? What

he managed to do was tap into a side of society that we all knew about

but that was not being written about or publicized on television. It is

hard now to remember what the British comedy was like before the

comic strip but if you try to test your memory, it wasn't good and he

completely revolutionized it. There were groups of people you hated the

same things you hate it and sat arise the same things and I think

him and he has sacrificed that recently. As a comedian he made

comedy out of nothing. He did a lot with very little. A combination of

physicality and timing and stupidity all coming together in his weird

characters. All of these were really clever comedians did it very well.

In between those shows, you had mother`in`law jokes and racist jokes

and all of that seem to be wiped away by the alternative comedians in

the 90s and he was part of that revolution. We will now look at this

one coming I'm not sure what it is coming I guess they went to a favela

before their training session in Brazil? Two things struck me about

this. It delivers all the stereotypes of Brazil and as we see

it is not changing its image during this World Cup but it also appeals

to me as a Scotsman as there are two pages here about England and it

doesn't mention 1966. Why would it? England has long got over 1966 and

it might be time for us to get over it. We are both tripping over each

other to show how much we're going to support over the next few weeks.

The obvious question for a man who works for a paper and is supporting

the Yes campaign, who will you be supporting for the World Cup?

Football and me have no relationship. No relationship. All

right. I know you are excited about the whole football story and it

concerns you deeply. You stay awake at night again about the games. Are

you looking forward to the opening match on Thursday? You will be

supporting England quite clearly. I am joking by the way, she hates

football. You will be really bored over the next month. So will many

people in the country. I might become a glory supporter and start

cheering along if they do well but I will probably just do housework. It

will be a month of fun and we will see Brazil edges a country we don't

know much about `` which is. What I like is that there is no great

expectation of England this time. Do us proud just by turning up. We will

all be able to get behind them. None of this drumbeating. None of this

golden generation rubbish. At least England are there... Thank you to

all of you for joining me. Stay with us here on BBC News: At midnight

we'll have full details of that Ofsted report into a number of

Birmingham schools, and its implications. But coming up next

it's time for Sportsday.