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Sunderland tomorrow. No reaction to the sacking of Jose Mourinho, and | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
European rugby championships. That is inspired after the papers. -- the | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
reaction. Hello, and welcome to our look | :00:08. | :00:14. | |
ahead to what the the papers With me are the literary editor | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
of the Independent on Sunday, Katy Guest, | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
and the Westminster correspondent The FT leads with | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
our main story tonight - The paper says the Prime Minister | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
has cleared the way for a referendum The i leads with the same | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
story, saying the historic vote The Sun says that the | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
number of foreign passport holders living in the UK has reached 5 | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
million for the first time. According to the Times, | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
doctors are handing out Botox prescriptions without having | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
consultations with patients. 'A mockery of justice' is | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
the Mail's headline after three suspected rioters, | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
who refused to reveal their identities in court, had | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
the charges against them dropped. The Telegraph says | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
leading academics are claiming British universities have become too | :01:05. | :01:06. | |
politically correct. offering discounts of up to 80% | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
for Christmas shoppers. Let's start with the story on the | :01:13. | :01:29. | |
Independent, the story we have been looking at all day today. That is | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
the closure of Kellingley Colliery in North Yorkshire, and a picture of | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
one of the miners who did his last shift at Britain's last deep coal | :01:39. | :01:46. | |
mine. Very sad box pops we hope. Not knowing what the future holds for | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
them. -- box pops we heard. I was then a couple of miles from | :01:54. | :02:01. | |
Kellingley, so it is my family's story, neighbours and grandfathers. | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
I went down this mine once and it was exhausting, horrific as getting | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
to the bottom. 800 feet. It is the end of a community. They were | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
horrible jobs, and the community is now left wondering what it will do, | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
not just for Christmas but in the future. We heard lots of people | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
saying they came from generations of families that have worked on this | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
articulate coal pit. But we knew it would come to an end. Not yet, | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
admittedly, but how much longer can we keep producing expensive coal? | :02:42. | :02:49. | |
Not at all now. Given all of that, it is not an economics story but a | :02:50. | :02:57. | |
human story. People remember the miner strikes and miners being a | :02:58. | :03:06. | |
huge force. Within my lifetime, the last mine has closed. It is the end | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
of an era. It isn't over used word, but it is historic. That is an | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
amazing statistic. Those pictures from the 80s when those strikes were | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
on, thousands of people took part to try to save the pits. Now just 100 | :03:23. | :03:32. | |
members. A lot of people from our generations can't help but have a | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
visceral and emotional reaction to a photograph like that of a miner | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
coming up from a mine for the last time. It still calls for enquiries | :03:40. | :03:48. | |
during the strikes. It is still part of our nation. What will happen in | :03:49. | :03:57. | |
this community? The mining communities in the 80s really | :03:58. | :03:59. | |
struggled to find something new to replace it with. Hopefully they will | :04:00. | :04:07. | |
get a lot of help from the local authority and government etc. I hope | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
so. There is a stark juxtaposition with this other story, fatcat | :04:12. | :04:18. | |
Britain and the economic difference between the richest and poorest in | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
Britain. It is getting bigger. The richest 1% of the population have as | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
much money as the poorest 57% combined, and the fact this gap is | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
getting wider since 2012 is really shocking. And George Osborne has | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
stepped up his private meetings with representatives to the UK's big | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
banks. Where is the evidence for that? And then from -- a source from | :04:43. | :05:03. | |
the Financial Times. And now David Cameron's Brexit vote. The | :05:04. | :05:13. | |
suggestion is that it will happen next summer, this vote. We have | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
elections in May. It can't happen too soon after that. There is a | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
suggestion it will be next summer. My sources tell me otherwise, and I | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
stand by then it may be September rather than summer, but we can be | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
fairly sure it will be 2016. The Prime Minister corrupt agent saying | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
next year would be vital and the moment when concern address the | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
concern of the British people about our membership. February is the date | :05:45. | :05:54. | |
where he has to get his ducks in a row and get his negotiations done. | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
Things don't crank up again until January. I can't imagine them | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
working faster than that. We have absolutely no movement at all on the | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
key reforms, the idea of migrants from within the EU not in claim in | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
work benefits for four years after arriving. That was supposed to be a | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
line in the sand. He had four key reforms, and everyone said the first | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
three were fine. I wonder if he was thinking it would be like when you | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
sign the terms and conditions, that's OK, I can't be bothered, sign | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
up for all four. But everyone says it is a line in the sand and they | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
will not accept that. Cameron has come back saying we have made | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
progress towards having an agreement. Is he managing | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
expectations, and telling us it would be really hard work, I will | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
have to argue all night with them, I will not let them sleep until they | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
agree with my demands? Then he can come back as the conquering hero and | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
say, I have one against the mean old Europe people for you. His | :07:07. | :07:16. | |
negotiating tactic is to go in fully. You go in, and maybe this is | :07:17. | :07:30. | |
why he has made progress this time. Go in with a full bladder. I might | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
try that before I go on air. Too much information. Don't start. You | :07:36. | :07:43. | |
wait if you think that stronger, you wait until you hear what I have | :07:44. | :07:52. | |
coming up. -- blogger. Doctors prescribe drugs | :07:53. | :08:05. | |
they prescribing Botox to without meeting was like anyone who faces | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
it. The fascinating thing, when you look into the history, the medical | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
Council were supposed to bringing the rules about prescribing of Botox | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
in 2012 after another investigation either BBC found the same thing, | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
that little-known to ask, Botox is a medicine you have to have on | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
prescription, and in theory, you are supposed to have a face-to-face | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
eating with the prescriber, which could be a doctor or dentist. -- | :08:34. | :08:41. | |
meeting. It is toxic, isn't it? Not just a beauty therapist, who can't | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
prescribe the medicine, only very out the procedure. The beauty | :08:48. | :08:55. | |
therapist has cold a doctor and the doctor has said I will prescriber | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
and has not seen the person who is going to receive it. The Times has | :09:01. | :09:09. | |
uncovered that there is no medical supervision in some cases. Not in | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
the building at the time, certainly. They have to be registered. It is | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
not surprising that it is going on, it is surprising that it an | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
illegal. There are serious regulations around it. Let us look | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
at the Telegraph. Politically correct universities are killing | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
free speech. Academics are concerned about the amount of censorship on | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
campuses, to do with who can speak at events, the subjects they can | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
talk about. It seems this is in the news a lot. There is an issue here, | :09:48. | :09:55. | |
but I am not sure what it is. British universities have become too | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
politically correct, but I would suggest you can't be too politically | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
correct, because politically correctness means not offending | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
people if you don't have to. It has become a pejorative phrase. These | :10:09. | :10:17. | |
alleged incidents about not wearing sombreros because it may offend | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
Mexican students. They want to pull down a statue of a horrible man who | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
did terrible things in Africa. According to some. Some people will | :10:30. | :10:40. | |
say he was a pioneer. He is not just Cecil Rose, who was just a horrible | :10:41. | :10:49. | |
man in Africa. But they say these statue has historical interest, | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
which it does, so it is how do you find the balance? In universities, | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
there has to be more latitude for people to examine ideas? Yes, but | :11:00. | :11:06. | |
University has a responsibility to think carefully about what it is | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
seen to endorse. And so by inviting someone to speak whereby a statue or | :11:12. | :11:19. | |
keeping a statue of someone, does that explicitly say we endorse this? | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
Is that the right thing to do? One college was paid for by Cecil Rose, | :11:24. | :11:30. | |
wasn't it? They are in a bind. There are lots of institutions like that. | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
They can't deny the fact they were paid for by one of their famous | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
alumna. There are lots of educational establishments where | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
money is tainted. What do you do about it? Funded on slave trade | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
money. It is too difficult to be a front-page story. It should have a | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
university dissertation about it. Someone will write their Ph.D., and | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
someone else will ban it. I hope you're not feeling too prudish at | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
the moment. Why Colonel bogey but it right about Hitler. That is the | :12:10. | :12:18. | |
chewing, we know the words. It turns out the notorious wartime song was | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
right all along. Adolf Hitler really did have only one testicle. Well, he | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
had one undescended testicle. I love this job sometimes. That is a story | :12:32. | :12:38. | |
right there. Apparently incontrovertible truth has been | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
discovered by a historian. When it hit that was examined by a prisoner | :12:45. | :12:55. | |
doctor, the doctor examined him and found he clearly had an undescended | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
testicle on the right side. -- Hitler. Previously the side that was | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
thought to be understanding. -- understanding. Fascinating that | :13:09. | :13:20. | |
people are still interested in this. There we go. None of us were around | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
at the time, but we all know the song. It is part of our history. Any | :13:27. | :13:36. | |
word for it I tour you earlier? Monorchid will stop only having the | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
one. I learnt it from my English teacher. It has turned out to be | :13:43. | :13:43. | |
useful all this time later. Will you be rushing out to grab a | :13:44. | :13:58. | |
bargain? No, I would not go to the shops if they were giving out stuff | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
for free. Tomorrow was panic Saturday, apparently. Another day | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
with another name. I think they make them up, everyday there is a new | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
one. I think this one is all our own panic. True, proper, original | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
British panic. What do we do on Christmas Eve? It is not really a | :14:18. | :14:25. | |
panic tomorrow. I once met someone who was in a panic on Christmas Eve | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
who had fallen asleep on the train, got off the train in a hurry and got | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
home and realised all his Christmas presents were on the train. It was | :14:34. | :14:40. | |
Christmas Eve. That is it. Thank you very much. Katie and James, nice to | :14:41. | :14:49. | |
see you both. Merry Christmas, whatever you would like me to wish | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
you. Coming up next, | :14:55. | :14:55. |