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round results and the latest from the US Open, where Heather Watson | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
has failed to enter the second round. | :00:00. | :00:16. | |
Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing | :00:17. | :00:28. | |
us tomorrow. With me are Isabel Hardman, Assistant Editor of the | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
Spectator, and journalist and broadcaster Henry Bonsu. Tomorrow's | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
front pages. The Daily Telegraph leads with the story about | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
paedophile gangs preying on more than 1,400 children in Rotherham | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
over a period of 16 years. The Sun's headline is: 1400 victims of PC | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
brigade. The Guardian features the same story, saying the Report damns | :00:47. | :00:53. | |
politicians and police. And like the Telegraph, it also carries a picture | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
of Kate Bush, who returned to live performance tonight after an absence | :00:57. | :01:04. | |
of 36 years. As well as those two stories, the Times reports the World | :01:05. | :01:06. | |
Health Organization, suggesting people should be banned from smoking | :01:07. | :01:16. | |
e`cigarettes indoors. Scotland's Daily Record reports that Gordon | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
Brown and Alistair Darling put their bitter feud on hold for the campaign | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
to save the union. The Financial Times has the story of Burger King | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
transferring its headquarters to Canada as part of its $11 billion | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
acquisition of coffee and doughnuts chain Tim Hortons. And The Daily | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
Express says Britain is now home to two million illegal migrants. Let's | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
begin. This striking headline, 1400 victims of PC Brigade, a reference | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
to the story that has emerged today from Rotherham. Give us your take on | :01:43. | :01:50. | |
their coverage of this. They say these 1400 victims of the PC | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
Brigade, this is probably one of the few stories where the word | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
politically correct does apply. Police and council officers were | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
failing to pass on allegations of rape, sexual abuse and sexual | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
exploitation of children being threatened violence and doused with | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
petrol, partly because they were worried of being accused of racism. | :02:13. | :02:40. | |
My concern is the importance of the Asian link. If they had the | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
evidence, they would have followed it. But it could well be that what | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
was most important in their minds but that these were children who | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
were probably looked after, that it would be a lot of hassle to deal | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
with these cases and they couldn't be bothered. They didn't listen to | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
them and follow`up the complaints and let it go. The fear of being | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
branded racist is an alarming element in this story. If we are | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
talking about a situation where somebody thinks something is wrong | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
but because of the racial background of the perpetrator they decide to | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
say nothing about it... They might say that afterwards but if we had a | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
fight now and the police came... Please don't do that. But they | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
wouldn't hold back and say, we are looking for a blackmail in his | :03:33. | :03:44. | |
middle 40s. `` black male. The report said some superiors had set | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
not to include a description of the men who were alleged to be carrying | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
out these offences. Even though it could help them find the perpetrator | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
and solve a potential crime. This is where it becomes strange because | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
it's not fear of the crime, fear of what's happening to the children, | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
but fear of being labelled a racist. It becomes more important than fear | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
of a vulnerable 11`year`old being sexually exploited. The other point | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
being made here, it's the last sentence on the Sun, they said none | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
of this stuff would be disciplined. Apparently because there wasn't | :04:22. | :04:23. | |
enough evidence to act against them. The council has stepped down but I | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
understand the professor, who carried out the report, is writing | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
to people who have moved onto other bodies and authorities to point out | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
that they were involved in this report, so there were aware. What we | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
have seen in many cases where social work has gone wrong is that they | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
haven't been talking to the police, the police haven't spoken to them, | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
the authorities weren't working in a joint away. We saw this when there | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
has been no racial element. That is the key to this story. Organisations | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
promise to do this, as this will never happen again that they don't | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
talk to each other. Take us through a different story. The Express, to | :05:05. | :05:12. | |
Gaza, what might be slightly more encouraging news from that part of | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
the world? It needs to be because we've had seven weeks of fighting. | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
Israel, which has one of the best equipped military is in the world, | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
and Gaza, led by Hamas, and we've seen 2200 people dead, the vast | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
majority of them civilians of Palestinian background. Around 80 or | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
so is Raleys, the vast majority soldiers. Of course whenever Israel | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
is involved in a conflict with the Palestinians, the US, the UN, they | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
always say they have to back Israel pretty much no matter what. At there | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
has been criticism of Israel this time. `` but there has. But not | :05:52. | :05:59. | |
enough. This ceasefire has to hold and this blockade has to end and we | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
need to see a proper two state solution and we need to see the end | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
of this blockade. It has been interesting politically in terms of | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
the British government's response. It has been confusing for those | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
observing from Israel and foreign capitals because the coalition | :06:21. | :06:21. | |
response has been split between the Lib Dems, who want to take a much | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
harsher line with the Israelis over the way the IDF has been responding | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
to Hamas, and the Conservatives, who still want to support Israel's right | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
to defend itself against a mass, a group which doesn't believe in the | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
state of Israel at all. `` Hamas. So the messages have been mixed. The | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
government hasn't been speaking with one voice. Nick Clegg has spoken | :06:46. | :07:01. | |
about it. One of the things, I have been contacted about this on | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
Twitter, the generation that feels so strongly linked to Israel and | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
will defend it no matter what will gradually disappear and those people | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
who haven't got such a close allegiance to Israel, either from | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
what happens during the horrific Holocaust or what has happened since | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
1948, I suspect Israel will find it has fewer friends in the future than | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
it has had. We shall see. Turning our attention to domestic politics. | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson, double trouble, a great headline in | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
the Guardian. I think Boris Johnson is helpful for Cameron in the Nigel | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
Farage respect, in that he is quite good at countering Nigel Farage. He | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
appeals to people who aren't that interested in politics. He is his | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
own man. In that respect, Boris Johnson announcing he will stand as | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
it Tory candidate is a good thing for Cameron. But him getting closer | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
to the Commons and having more opportunities to make life difficult | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
for Cameron isn't good in the long`term. It will be mayhem. But | :08:06. | :08:23. | |
it's a government. He is basing his bullets... What about Nigel Farage? | :08:24. | :08:35. | |
South Thanet has decided that Nigel Farage will be their candidate for | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
the 2015 election and this is interesting because it's a marginal | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
Tory seat. What could actually happened is that UKIP could split | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
the conservative vote and labour could get the seat, or Nigel Farage | :08:46. | :08:52. | |
could return as UKIP's first MP. He said if UKIP doesn't get an MP in | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
2015 he will stand down as party leader and he hasn't hosted the | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
easiest thing to win. Rotherham is much easier for him to win and South | :09:00. | :09:08. | |
Thanet. I was about to raise that. He has represented Kent at European | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
level already, so you can understand why he would go in that direction, | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
it interesting he is targeting a currently Conservative seat, whereas | :09:18. | :09:19. | |
in recent times there have been taking a lot of votes from labour as | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
well. I think deep down he believes this is their heartland. People have | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
come along and made false promises and on `` I think he feels that if | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
they can't win them, they can't win anywhere. It is a barometer. | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
Although they topped the poll at the last European elections, their vote | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
tends to drop significantly in subsequent elections and that could | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
happen again. He is clearly talking confidently about winning a seat but | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
he is very confident that UKIP will have representation in the next | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
houses of Parliament. You think they will? I think they have a good | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
chance of returning one MP but I'm not sure about the 12 target seats | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
they've got. It's very difficult for UKIP. The system is against any | :10:06. | :10:12. | |
party like this. And we are voting for a government. When you look at | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
Nigel Farage, do you see a Prime Minister in waiting? Probably not. | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
Moving on. Talking of politicians who enjoy life, there's a photograph | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
on the front of the daily Record that's dealing with actually the | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
relationship between Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling but we can't | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
avoid seeing Alex Salmond tucking into a chocolate bar above them, | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
which isn't the main thrust of the story. Take us into this one. This | :10:41. | :10:47. | |
is a fascinating story. It isn't the story about Alex Salmond's diet | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
going wrong but that Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling could battle | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
together to save the union. This is so interesting because Gordon Brown | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
has spent the past year and a bit doing B, if they want my advice, | :11:01. | :11:12. | |
kind of act. `` doing the. In the last few weeks of the campaign, he | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
is going to step alongside Alistair Darling. I wonder who ran food. I | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
suspect Alistair Darling probably pick up the phone. `` who rang who. | :11:21. | :11:30. | |
I know they will get together in Dundee, which is supposedly the most | :11:31. | :11:37. | |
Scottish Nationalists place of all other cities in Scotland. You can | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
see why the bad blood runs so`called between them, it goes back to the | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
time when Alistair Darling refused to step down as Chancellor. He gave | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
an interview and was really honest about the depth of the crisis. And | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
Gordon Brown unleashed the dogs of war. The dogs of war. If Gordon | :11:59. | :12:10. | |
Brown comes in in a more prominent way, clearly the man pictured above | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
the headline will make a. He will say, this is a sign that they aren't | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
going according to plan. `` make hay. We don't want to look at this | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
through too much of a Westminster perspective. At Westminster, Gordon | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
Brown is like the useful idiots, which is a bit unfair. But in | :12:34. | :12:35. | |
Scotland he is still hugely respected. The effect it can have on | :12:36. | :12:42. | |
the Labour photos is huge. You are right. Westminster view is so | :12:43. | :12:52. | |
different. `` voters. They will say that he was the man to do things for | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
the union and there will be more people like him to come. But stick | :12:59. | :13:06. | |
with the Times. A ban on smoking e`cigarettes indoors would cost | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
hundreds of lives, it says. This is what the WHO says. And they say it | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
has stepped into and issue counter`productive advice. Because | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
lots of us who have never been a smoker have sat in relaxed fashion | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
next people smoking my face almost. At night hotels. | :13:23. | :13:41. | |
They say there's a of "vaping". `` there's a danger of "vaping" . We | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
don't know if the paper harmful pollutants. What I thought these | :13:45. | :13:51. | |
were safe. Or safer. Yes. I suspect one of the things they aren't happy | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
with is that some of the major manufacturers of the e`cigarettes | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
are the big tobacco companies. Suspect there is an industrial | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
point. A modern way of getting the paper because you are inhaling | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
nicotine, which is still bad for your heart. But these e`cigarettes | :14:06. | :14:13. | |
are hugely useful to people trying to give up smoking. But we don't | :14:14. | :14:14. | |
have the figure on those. It is have the figure on those. It is | :14:15. | :14:21. | |
anecdotal. The WHO says is it a gateway alt, rather than a gateway | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
in? It looks cool as well. I shouldn't promote it. I think it | :14:26. | :14:27. | |
looks strange. I think you are A final word on Kate Bush. She looks | :14:28. | :14:47. | |
magnificent, resplendent, there is a great deal of mystery among men of a | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
certain age, who are fascinated in Kate Bush in the mid to late 70s, | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
how successful she was. How unusual. And then to disappear for such a | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
long time. If you have not seen someone perform for 36 years, it is | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
a good way of drawing a crowd. She has definitely kept people waiting. | :15:08. | :15:17. | |
She seems to be anti` Miley Cyrus. She has not oversold or overexposed | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
herself, which a lot of stars do today. She has kept her fans | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
waiting, and it was still there for her. I have been trolled about my | :15:26. | :15:40. | |
chest hair, I was unaware that it was so repellent. I would have | :15:41. | :15:47. | |
thought it would be about your shirt! Thank you for sorting that | :15:48. | :15:56. | |
out. Thank you to Isabel and Henry, and we will be back at the same time | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
tomorrow. At midnight, more on the report that has revealed that 1400 | :16:02. | :16:03. | |
children were abused in | :16:04. | :16:27. |