01/01/2016 The Papers

England are expected to bring James Anderson back into the side.

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

With me are the political commentator Miranda Green

and the Daily Telegraph's chief political correspondent,

Thank you for being the first paper reviewers of 2016. Setting the year

off on a good standard, I hope. We can look at the front pages.

The FT's picture is of the shooting in Tel Aviv.

They also feature President Obama's New Year's message and a claim

he is planning to bypass Congress to impose new controls on gun sales.

Pope Francis at his New Year's Day mass dominates the front

It also reports on the potential for British troops to face criminal

charges over abuse and unlawful killing during the Iraq War.

The Daily Mail has comments from the first wife of suspended

Simon Danczuk about the impact which the allegation that he sent

explicit messages to a 17-year-old is having on their family.

"A student cheating crisis" is the headline on the Times.

It says almost 50,000 students have been caught cheating

The I says Jeremy Corbyn must get 35% of the vote in next year's

elections if he's to avoid a coup from fellow party members.

The Sun reports on a former EastEnders actress, Sian Blake,

who has been missing with her two young children for almost three

Government plans to double the fine for littering to ?150

And the Mirror has claims from a couple who say they missed

out on a ?35 million lottery jackpot, because of a mix-up

Welcome. Let's begin with the FT Weekend, a two-day paper, so plenty

of time for people to delve into this but a striking story on the

front page as President Obama enters his final 12 months in office. What

he has done is returned to an issue he has been vocal on before, which

is gun control, which in America is incredibly controversial. The

Republican party refuses to countenance control on who can buy

and keep weapons. Plenty of Democrats feel the same. Because of

the American system it is difficult to get legislation through and in

2013 they tried with a bipartisan Bill after the Newtown school

killings which was blocked in the Senate and President Obama is

determined to return to this is his last few months to try to introduce

a background check on who can buy guns. It is controversial and part

of the rise of Donald Trump, the phenomenon in the Republican

selection as to who will run against we think Hillary Clinton, is the

idea that America and President Obama do not understand each other

and so trying to take on America's love of guns is controversial. It

has legacy written all over it. His comments are so important. When the

most recent massacre happened he said the reporting and reaction is

routine and it must stop. He was so cross. He has woken up to the fact

the clock is ticking. When you read the detail, it says he has been

pushing hard for background checks on those buying guns and would like

them to be mandatory which Congress will not permit. The only power he

has is to expand regulations, for background checks on people selling

the guns. The wrong way round. It is a tiny step towards even having a

conversation on controlling who has the guns. It is interesting when you

talk to Americans about this, they will quote to you, very clear in

their minds, about the right to bear arms. When you look at the

Constitution, it is the right to bear arms as part of a well ordered

militia, presumably when there was no police force and presumably the

police force is armed. They reserve their right to have their cake and

eat it. Loretta Lynch, the scourge of Fifa. If anybody can do it,

perhaps she can. That is an interesting thought. We will find

out more on Monday. In the Times newspaper, and very intriguing

story. An interesting report from the special correspondent who has

done investigations and he says he has found 50 student is caught

cheating at British universities. Many more likely to cheat in exams

rather than coursework. The Times newspaper has done it in a measured

way, but it is alarming. Extraordinary these figures. You try

to get Freedom of Information on these figures but you have to go to

individual university groups and to pull them together in one go is

interesting. Students coming from outside the EU to British

universities are an important source of revenue. Our universities charge

extraordinary multiples of what British and EU students pay. Is

there a debate on whether the scale of fees foreign students pay,

significantly higher than paid by our student is, whether they create

an incentive for people to behave in a way they might not otherwise

behave. It is an interesting point. We are as the UK in competition with

other English-speaking nations to attract people to universities.

Partly because we want the best people from around the world. We

want them to stay here and win Nobel prizes here! That they are a source

of revenue. In the detail of the story, which looks robust as an

investigation, there is an extraordinary one, five cases of

impersonation where students arrange for someone else to sit exams on

their behalf. Imagine getting someone else to turn up to suit your

Ph.D. . Less than 1% of those found guilty of misconduct. If you aren't

getting a lot of money from foreign students, you might not want to

chuck them out. Are they enforcing the rules properly? Presumably it

will raise questions they will have to answer about procedures, and for

the employers who might say, is that degree quite as good as I thought it

was? Colonel Gaddafi, something to do with his Ph.D. In the past... ? I

think there have been a lot of allegations that he is not with us

to offer a response, so perhaps we will move on to the I newspaper.

This man, almost the man of the year in terms of publicity in 2015,

Jeremy Corbyn. This is fascinating. You have written a piece for the

Guardian and about pantomime. I do not what -- know what character he

would be. Dick Whittington? The streets of London paved with

electoral gold? Jack the giant killer. This piece says Jeremy

Corbyn's team are letting it be known they think the benchmark for

success in the May elections is for Labour to get a 35% vote share,

which could lead to do with managing expectations as to what would allow

him to survive as leader. A lot of the backchat has been, will there be

a coup against Corbyn by the moderate wing of the party? We

expect Jeremy Corbyn in the next weeks to probably knife his Shadow

Cabinet who are not onside. The drama will not go away any time

soon. 35%, they are playing down arguably expectations. Roughly 2%

above the average they are polling at the moment. Local elections are

not the same thing but we will try to map this on to a figure for the

next general election. You mentioned reshuffle. What is your sense of

this? There has been debate about whether it would happen. We had it

with that stuff in one of the Labour whip saying it is time to deal with

these traitors. Others trying to slap him down. John Ashworth saying

he should not have said it. Nobody is saying whether the reshuffle is

taking place. They say it is a matter for the leader and we are

told it is next week. How far does it go, dealing with the 11 or so

members of his close group of Shadow Cabinet who voted against him on

Syria. What is the risk? It already is called among the media the

revenge reshuffle, which is a problem because everything he does

to assert his authority is seen as part of the ideological battle and

spirit within the party and it goes back to the phenomenon of someone

who rebelled against the previous Labour leaders over 500 times,

trying to impose stern party discipline. You remember this, I can

remember a former minister under John Major when I asked him about

Iain Duncan Smith's demand for loyalty, saying some expletive rich

responses about what he thought. Because he had been a serial rebel

and made John Major's life hell in that period. In the Independent

newspaper, this is serious. The striking photograph of Pope Francis

kissing a statue of baby Jesus on New Year's Day. What do you make of

this? The context, a rambling about human rights we are seeing at the

moment. They are concerned human rights laws are being used to

prosecute soldiers, British soldiers, in foreign battlefields

is. It is a great story. The reporter has found there could be as

many as 200 people unlawfully killed by British soldiers. It puts it into

context, if you are trying to defend, and thinking about if you

will be sued at the end of that, it conflicts the idea of your job. The

legacy of Iraq is very much with us, domestically also. I agree. We are

waiting for pitch Chilcot report. Which we are told we will get this

summer. I hate to say, let's wait and see. -- for the Chilcot report.

The legacy of Iraq continues to haunt British politics. I am struck

by the idea that the caseload of the group looking into unlawful killing

and torture by British troops in Iraq is exploding. They were

investigating 152 cases and it has swollen to 1500 potential victims of

British troops behaving in a way against the laws of war, allegedly.

We will hear more about this in the course of the coming months. I will

let Christopher start again. I should do with this next one. A drum

roll. The front of the Daily Telegraph. War declared on litter

louts by one Christopher hope. It is a consultation from the government

to increase on the spot litter fine. -- finds. It is something that

annoys our readers. And probably a lot of other people. Some would say,

about time. Also interviewed, a man who is running a clean the country

for the Queen ahead of her 90th birthday and he is concerned that

some people think it is a human rights to drop litter. I trace it

back to when Vince were removed from London underground. An

anti-terrorism strategy. After the King's Cross could be right. --

Kings crossfire. You could be right. It is said we should police it. He

is saying... How do you go to someone and say you have dropped a

cigarette packet. Do it with politeness, he says, oh, you have

dropped something stop hopefully you will embarrass them into doing

something. The government is interested in this and it thinks it

has done it with the supermarket levy. And also sending text messages

to tell people neighbours had paid up, creating the sense you should

play along. Neighbours have picked up their litter and so maybe you

should. This person, a great wit, talks about why everybody should

have to live in a teenager's bedroom, it is bad for your spirit.

He is right. Interesting you have an American talking about it because

Bill Bryson is obsessed with the way we British do not look after our

country and drop litter. If they say we could improve, we should listen.

Let me give you the last story from this review. The front page of the

Mirror newspaper. We will leave the free slimming pull-out aside. The

story at the bottom. This couple say something went wrong with their

mobile phone app with which they bought their tickets, which would

have been a winning ticket and they would have been able to claim ?35

million. Clearly that is not a brilliant start to the new year for

them, thinking what might have been. I am interested in why it is the

splash and the psychology of it. You will you did to the slimming

pull-out and every single front page has a diet, turn over a new leaf

from page. What is the psychology of this? Are we supposed to think we

feel bad for them, or that our New Year will be more cheery? Buy a

paper ticket, that is what I say. I do notice... We do not have the

whole story yet, and I might be unfair to the couple, but they say

the ?2 online ticket purchase failed because they only had 60p in their

recount. That might not be the fault of the app! It could happen to any

of us. We have all thing when we thought we had sorted something.

Misreading the numbers and thinking you have one! It cannot be all of 35

million. It must be a share of that. That is something I cannot answer.

Perhaps we will have more when we come back in an hour. Thank you for

racing through a busy run of stories in the first paper review of 2016.

Now, the sport.