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Championship match and action from European rugby, all coming up in | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Sportsday in the next 15 minutes. Hello and welcome to our look ahead | :00:00. | :00:13. | |
to what the papers will be With me are the former US | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
State Department Official and law professor, Colleen Graffy, | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
and the Political Editor of the Daily Mirror, | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
Jason Beattie. Let's get into the front pages as we | :00:24. | :00:42. | |
have them. Let's kick off, there we go, with Jose Mourinho. | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
Were you a fan? How could you not be? He's gorgeous! Don't hold back! | :00:47. | :00:54. | |
Finding someone that good-looking, it seems a shame after you have done | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
so well, they say the best in 110 years, and after one season, he's | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
out? But there seems to be some personality issues that have arisen | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
and I guess that is part of it but what a shame. Gorgeous but | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
personality issues. Exactly. We discussed this in the newspaper | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
conference today at the daily Mirror and this came up, do we put up a | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
front page and make it the main story? But some women won't like | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
football. But they said, "No, we like him". He does transcend | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
football. He is the superstar manager. This story was what the | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
word schadenfreude was invented for, every other football fan in every | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
other club in Britain is going, "Yes!" The man who traded on his ego | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
has had a spectacular fall. It seems harsh. I'm not a Chelsea fan, I have | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
to say but a man who has won the Premier League title three times, | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
you would think he deserves a bit of time to fail, even one season of | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
failure. What is interesting here, sorry about the football talk! Let's | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
do a bit of Charlton while we are doing this because they don't get | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
mentioned here very often. Part of the whole Jose Mourinho shtick was | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
that he would defend the players by attacking the referee, the | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
opponents, anyone. Doctors! It was almost like he was doing it on | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
purpose to deflect attention from what happened in the dressing room. | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
What has happened is that he has fallen out with the players. Instead | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
of... This act, this ring of steel that he put around them, it is no | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
longer working because it was obviously a major bust up behind the | :02:37. | :02:46. | |
scenes. He's broken the trust. Did he deserve to go? I know you are not | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
a breakable fun. No, I enjoy it, very much so, NFL and British! Is it | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
harsh? A lot of people would say he got them a lot of trophies. It is | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
clear when you have some of the bust up that he has had, in other clubs | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
he's been too as well, not just Chelsea, that it seems to be after | :03:06. | :03:07. | |
two years, something, some black cloud kicks in. I'm not sure what | :03:08. | :03:15. | |
that is. But you can't feel too sorry for him, you will be crying | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
all the way to the bank, ?250,000 per week out of ?10 million while | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
he's looking for a new job. And he will write a book and goodness knows | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
what else. Don't feel too sorry. He could do the paper review sometime! | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
Staying with the Independent, speaking of wealth, one nation or | :03:32. | :03:39. | |
two, priming as do? What do you make of this? This is Alan | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
former Labour Health Secretary who was appointed by David Cameron as | :03:44. | :03:45. | |
the social mobility is, a slightly clunky title, to look at how you | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
improve the life chances of many of the poorest people in this country. | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
He's come out with his annual report and he has hung Cameron Buttle 's | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
Mac words, which the Prime Minister after just after he was re-elected | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
about being a one nation by Minister. -- he has hung Cameron's | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
words. He has said the divide between rich and boys getting wider, | :04:07. | :04:14. | |
has Alan Milburn. But it has been under Tony Blair as well. He said if | :04:15. | :04:15. | |
you want after Sylvia election promise you got to do a lot more. | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
Alan Milburn describes over 1 million children as in persistent | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
poverty. He takes the cities of Norwich and Saint Oldland 's, and | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
says they are 100 miles apart but the life expectancy, the salaries, | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
the fortunes of children in St Albans are so much more better than | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
they are in Norwich. It's not a particularly poor city in itself. As | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
an outsider, Colleen, what do you make of inequality in this country? | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
I have to say, first, the idea that there has been a commission, and | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
this is the third annual review that they are identifying the problems | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
and also, that you have George Osborne focusing on this northern | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
powerhouse, so the government is concentrated on how to crack this. | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
They recognise the problem which is half the battle and they are trying | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
to identify ways of overcoming it. One is to have zero tolerance of | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
schools with for example salts. We have a similar situation in the US. | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
-- with poor exam results. They forced them to become academies and | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
recognise that education is an essential part of getting above the | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
poverty line. And so to work for new teachers getting higher paid, | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
helping provide housing, that is going to be key to changing the gap. | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
But this is the key point. One, these issues are not unique to | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
Britain. There is a massive wealth gap in the US as well. But the | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
majority of solutions Alan Milburn is advocating require a stronger | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
state. They require the government to put more money in. We could | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
debate that all night but we don't have time. Let's talk about the | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
European Union in the Daily Telegraph. David Cameron, a rather | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
good picture of him... Looking stressed! He looks a bit nervous in | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
front of Angela Merkel. She is saying no. The headline says, "Now, | :06:04. | :06:14. | |
Mrs Merkel, about Britain's demand". It's going to be a tough, long night | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
for David Cameron. He's there as we speak. It's going to be difficult | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
for him because he's asking the other European to vote to accept | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
that Britain does not have to give in-kind benefits to citizens from | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
their country coming to Britain. Would we want that reciprocated? | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
Probably not. They are an unlikely to vote for that to happen in | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
Britain. -- not likely. How will he get a deal? There's a lot of talk | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
about compromise. There will have to be a compromise. David Cameron had | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
four key demands and three of them were agreed anyway, although they | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
were pretty woolly, like there would not be a two tear Europe, regarding | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
the single currency, and there would be a new drive to eradicate | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
bureaucracy and red tape which had general agreement. The third one was | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
against ever closer union which was pretty much happening. But the one | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
awkward demand is the one he's going to have to go back on which is the | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
four year ban on migrant benefits. Also on the front page, an | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
extraordinary story about divorce and a computer software blunder | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
which means a lot of couples who have divorced may have to go back | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
through the courts. Yes, if you have divorced in the last 20 months, you | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
want to make sure you read this story, particularly if you were | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
bemused by settlement. And if you used software on the form. If you | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
did it online. They found out they were not taking in some of the debts | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
and liabilities. Interestingly enough, it was a friend of the | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
court, a McKenzie friend who identified this and went back and | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
alerted the Department but it has taken them a while to recognise the | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
software problem. There's only about 20,000 cases but that's a lot. And | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
also, how do you get it back into the hands of the court to revise? | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
It's going to be tricky bureaucracy. Extraordinary. The Financial Times | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
have an interesting story about a whizz kid who has been arrested for | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
running a Ponzi scheme. What is this about? He is in Jose Mourinho's | :08:19. | :08:29. | |
hooded top, by the way. He hit the headlines a few months ago when he | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
bought this pharmaceutical firm and became Chief Executive. He ramped up | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
the costs by 500%, of this drug which was partly used for some HIV | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
AIDS patients to help them. Massive social media backlash. A lot of | :08:44. | :08:52. | |
people will be saying that this is his just reward. He did this | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
horrific thing and maybe he's getting his just deserts. But he is | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
saying that the case against him has no merit. He's just 32. He looked | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
like he was ramping up the cost of this in order to pay back those that | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
were part of the hedge scheme. Allegedly he had all sorts of money | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
in this hedge fund which turned out to be ?700, or dollars or something. | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
So beware, there are so many of these Ponzi schemes and it is all to | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
do with confidence and one thing leading to another. Everyone thought | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
he was a whizz kid and now it looks like it is a house of cards. He's 32 | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
and he had a very controversial exit from his previous company and how | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
did he become Chief Executive of another firm? It's an interesting | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
question. Lastly, your favourite, I think, dog owners are being | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
threatened with prosecution if they dress up their pets and their dogs | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
in Christmas outfits. I don't know quite what sort of outfit we are | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
talking about. Things like antlers, Father Christmas outfits. I have to | :09:57. | :10:03. | |
confess, I have a dog. You dress him up as Father Christmas? I don't. The | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
RSPCA is worried about the stress and the trauma for the dog but I'm | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
not sure how traumatic it is for the dog. How have they evaluated this? | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
It could be stressful, it could be embarrassing to walk down the | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
street. The dog is embarrassed? What about the owner was to mark I don't | :10:22. | :10:28. | |
think they get embarrassed. Do dogs have shame? Do you have a dog? I did | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
when I grew up. We did not dress it up. It seems a bit over reaching to | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
see that they will feel unable to express themselves as well as being | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
scared and worried about the unfamiliar clothing. Don't you think | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
dog owners that love their dogs would not do anything that would | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
create any tension question mark they would be the first to recognise | :10:48. | :10:55. | |
that, not the RSPCA. -- any tension? And Christmas jumpers are so last | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
year! Let's not get onto that. Thank you for joining us. We will see you | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
again at 11:30pm. We will be back with more of the front pages then. | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
Stay with us. At 11pm, David Cameron has told one of his proposed key | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
reforms of the UK to stop migrant workers claiming benefits for years | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
is unacceptable. Next, Sportsday. Hello and welcome to Sportsday - | :11:19. | :11:32. | |
I'm Olly Foster, here's what's | :11:33. | :11:35. |