04/07/2014 The Papers

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

us tomorrow. With me are David Williamson, political editor of

Western Mail, and broadcaster and author Dreda Say Mitchell.

Tomorrow's front pages. "No remorse" ` the Sun leads on the jailing of

Rolf Harris, as does the Express, which says victims are launching

compensation claims against his ?11 million estate. The Independent says

a major Tory donor is the favourite to take over the schools watchdog

Ofsted. But critics say David Ross could face a conflict of interest

because he founded a chain of academies. Statins could be used to

prevent breast cancer according to the Mirror, which reports on the

findings of a new study. The Times says the PM has secretly agreed to

transfer more policing powers to the EU. The former News of the World

editor, Andy Coulson, is pictured on the Guardian. He was sentenced to 18

months in jail today for conspiracy to hack phones. And in the FT, after

the loan firm Wonga was caught sending fake lawyers' letters to

chase up debts from customers, there are fears banks could be employing

similar tactics. Let's begin with the sentencing of Rolf Harris, the

entertainer has been said to prison for five years and nine months. This

is how the Sun is reporting it. No remorse, jailed for nearly six

years. Inside the paper as well is a picture of how he got to court this

morning from his beautiful home in Berkshire on the terms, and he went

by boat, to begin with. It is like some bizarre Wind in the Willows

scene of messing about in boats, and then a few hours later being on your

way to jail, which does captures the utter fall from grace that we have

just witnessed over the last few weeks. It is astonishing, and it

couldn't be a greater contrast. It is, really, and the fact that he

joked with reporters throughout the trial as if everything was all

right, and here we go, he doesn't want to see reporters. This is a way

for him not to have to deal with them. If you look there is another

picture of him, and he does appear be smiling and is wearing one of his

trademark colourful ties. It all feels very odd and very weird, and I

wondered, did he take on board the full impact of what this trial was

actually about, really? One commentator said she only realised

how serious it was when he refused to accept any responsibility for it

by pleading not guilty. Now, the suggestion is that some of his

victims were want to seek compensation, but the reporting I

have read suggests that he is not likely to have to pay compensation,

although he will have to pay prosecution costs. There is also the

issue of what next. It is a much wider story of other celebrities who

have been convicted of offences like this. Should there be a wider

enquiry? A royal commission is what some campaigners are calling for.

Absolutely, this is almost like a truth and reconciliation process, in

terms of opening up the history of a past in which there seems to have

been a strange sense in which power, whether it was cultural power

or celebrity, justifies a way of life which now strikes us as both

bizarre and abhorrent. When I was thinking about when I was growing

up, I won't say what era... The way in which some men used to treat

women and young girls, there is a whole feeling about our society. I

hope this is a line about how we have really moved on as a society as

well. The Western Mail has it on the front pages well. Has it really

changed? I think it has. This week, some women in the media were talking

about a strategist that they would use back in the 70s and 80s, when

male colleagues were inappropriate with `` about strategies they would

use. Now, I think a woman would turn around and say, hang on a minute,

that is inappropriate. Before, I don't think women would vocalise it.

They might, they tended to use their bodies to say, don't do that, but

they would be more vocal now. There are charities that look after the

interests of children, but I think employers are a lot more useful

nowadays. Every youth club or school or church is now so aware of the

responsibility of people not to turn a blind eye to something that

appears dodgy. There is another set of sentences being handed down

today. This time regarding the phone hacking trials. Andy Coulson, former

editor of the News of the World, former head of communications for

David Cameron, jailed for 18 months for conspiring to have telephones.

The judge saying some fairly serious things, that he must have known

about what was going on and allowed it to happen and even encouraged it

. I think he must have known, and there is the springboard about

people being in power, you can't just do what you want. The thing

that really sticks is the Milly Dowler story. I think what if that

was my daughter? What if that was your child? How would any parent

feel? I think the sentence he got was correct. There is another story

we must talk about with Guardian, moved to tighten terror laws in the

wake of the writ killing. A great deal of concern about the potential

radicalisation of young men travelling from this country to

either help out in humanitarian ways in Syria and Iraq, and perhaps being

drawn into the fighting. Concern that the government may use a report

next week from the intelligence and Security committee, into the murder

of Lee Rigby in Woolwich, to press for emergency anti` terror

legislation. This causes concern is for civil liberties groups.

Absolutely. The debate seems to be about, although they meet behind

closed doors, which is frustrating as it would be fascinating. How

these characters are able to move with such disastrous consequences

because surveillance was not empowered, was it simply a case of a

bureaucratic disaster? That is the last thing that many people,

especially the civil liberties community, is an arms race of, let's

have another law, without tackling the problem of radicalisation. The

law enforcement aspect is a huge one, but so is intellectual

engagement and understanding the worldview of young people that we

have seen crossing into Syria, that actually religious and political

ideas are so far beyond the Ken of mainstream Britain, that it excites

people enough to put their lives on the line. Isn't it fascinating that

there are hundreds of people going to try to help out or join the so

many of them are potentially, could be radicalised, and then bring the

ideas home. Art precautions a good idea? These young people with their

ideas, and you make a very good point, David, most of them feel they

are doing something they need to do. The issue will be, how do you prove

how many of them are going to be radicalised, and you have to be very

careful that you don't stamp a label on all of them, just because they

believe in helping justice in another country, as they would see

it. For me, there is a bigger issue. Every time we talk about this and we

use terms like UK Muslims as has been used here, demonising a whole

big group of people. I hope, as I said before, it is done

sensitively, and it doesn't stigmatise people who are Muslims,

and people who are British Muslims. The Independent, we have David

Ross, the carphone warehouse multimillionaire. `` Carphone

Warehouse. He has been involved with founding something like 25

academies. This has to be impartial. What everybody says about Baroness

Sally Morgan, who was the previous chair, was that she was very

impartial, and she actually commanded quite a lot of cross`party

respect. That is what the next chair has to do. However, if they are

involved in 25 academies, I don't think they should be able to do the

job. I don't see how they can be a part of it. This man himself, David

Ross, wouldn't be coming in and doing inspections, would he? He

would be a step removed from that. The Department of Education is very

keen to stress that the normal processes are being followed. It is

so interesting that apparently, according to this story, is that one

of the key aspects we are looking for is someone who understands

business, and if you should see and systems. It just shows how much the

education culture has been transformed already. It hasn't been

transformed, they want to transform it. There is a report here about a

parents group saying, hang on a minute, this is not transformational

education. I think this is about politics, and at the heart of it it

is not about education. The Department of Education assures us

that an independent panel will decide and then only recommend to

ministers a suitable list of candidates. The Times. Cameron opens

the door to DNA sharing. Explain to us what this agreement is? This is

something that will make David Cameron choke over his muesli in the

morning, moreover his nightcap tonight. Just a week after

Jean`Claude Juncker and the great adventures there, we suddenly find

that apparently Britain may be co`operating on a DNA database with

the European superstate. It is a grand drama, and Jacob Rees Mogg, a

leading Euro skip it, has this story. Talking about further

surrendered to Brussels, which shows the language in which this is

painted. It will be interesting to know who has leaked this report. We

have been talking about the apparent need for greater surveillance, and

the suggestion there might be more emergency powers. Is this not just

cooperation with the EU? We are talking about a database! What

really shocked me, was that I didn't realise Britain had one of the

largest database is in the world, and I think it is five times larger

than you would find in Europe. Can you imagine you have your DNA on a

database, you don't know who it is being shared with. Because it is

quite complex, they are saying they are not sure there won't be false

hits in relation to DNA. Also, with all be talks we get about different

ethnic groups, black people, how much DNA they have represented on

public databases, I really worry about this and I think civil

liberties groups should be jumping up and down and saying, we don't

want this. But we want to be kept safe. I I don't want someone else in

another European country to have access to my DNA? Do you want them

to have access to it here? No, I don't. Things can end up on database

is, and you don't always need to have done something wrong. The Tour

de France. The cyclists set up from Harewood, just outside Leeds

tomorrow. We have just heard that six riders have tested positive for

Wensleydale cheese. It is nice to see the tour, getting the Yorkshire

treatment. Absolutely, they won't want to leave! Someone I think near

Wakefield, has built an Eiffel Tower to make them all feel at home. I

think it is great. The bigger story is about the kind of doping scandals

that have been going on in cycling. There is a fabulous documentary

about Armstrong that is fantastic. There is the undercurrent of that as

well. Thank you to my guests for coming in and talking us through the

front pages. At midnight, disgraced entertainer Rolf Harris begins his

sentence for indecent assault against young girls. Coming up next,

World Cup Sportsday.