23/01/2016 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers

With me are Joseph Harker, deputy opinion editor for the

Guardian, and Neil Midgley, who's media commentator at Forbes.com.

And he is great at pulling faces, according to a review on Twitter. --

a viewer. The Observer says David Cameron

is considering plans to allow thousands of unaccompanied

migrant children into Britain. The Sunday Express leads on the

story that the RAF has foiled a plan by so-called Islamic State to attack

London, Brighton, Bath and Ipswich. The gloves are off, says the

Sunday Telegraph, as Conservative infighting deepens over whether to

stay in the European Union. Buried by a blizzard -

the Independent on Sunday's cover photo shows rows of cars under snow

on the US east coast. And in the Sunday Times,

the story that a former British spy is to expose

what he says was MI5 knowledge What is happening with the Labour

Party is reminiscent of the 1980s, many people say, and this is another

story that adds to that. Why is Jeremy Corbyn proposing this and is

it recent? This might not be a new proposal. It might have been

something that he said while in the outer reaches of the Labour

backbenches, which is to say more than six months ago. They are

reporting this story as though he is in top-level negotiations right now

and that this is his number one priority. I somehow doubt that. But

it is true that many of the questions on The Andrew Marr Show

when he was there were about 1980s things. The reason is that those are

his opinions, by and large. He is very ideologically similar to the

leadership of the Labour Party in the 1980s on the issues that he

considers important. Those are the same issues. Eight may be

ideologically similar but that does not mean that his main focus now is

not on modern events. The Labour Party's sole focus for the last few

weeks has been unilateral nuclear disarmament, which is about as 1980s

as you can get. Not quite the same. We have army generals questioning

whether Trident should be renewed or not. That is not the issue. The

question is whether Jeremy Corbyn... Some say he wants to

dialogue with Argentina over the Falklands and the outgoing Argentine

ambassador to the UK said that Jeremy Corbyn is one of ours. A

greater electoral gifted one sentence to the Tories is hard to

imagine. -- gift in. The people of the Falklands have never expressed

an opinion of wanting to belong to Argentina. That is correct about the

history of the Falklands is that Britain invaded these islands,

populate it with its own people and then after that says that everybody

wants to be British. Who was there before them apart from the

penguins's the fact is that the islands are very close to

Argentina. Is a kind of empire throwback and it is very popular in

this country. Britons look very favourably on the umpire, obviously

ignoring some of the slavery... -- the British Empire. I'm going to

give Peter the final say. Let the descendants of the Spanish who

slaughtered Indigenous Americans give the land back and then we will

talk. MPs need help against violent public. Psychiatrists having to work

with the Home Office. It is very tough on a lot of MPs, it seems, and

I think that a lot of this is down to social media, where they get the

abuse. Threats online. Stella Creasy also had her constituency office

ticketed around the time of the vote for air strikes on Syria. And many

people say things online in the heat of the moment and it sounds awful

and you just don't know whether to take it seriously, when somebody is

threatening you. This is making a lot of MPs very nervous. Some talk

about being afraid to go out there from door, being treated for anxiety

and depression, marriages breaking down because of the pressure... I

think there are possibly two parallel issues, although they are

connected. One of them is that there are constituents who are either

threatening and he's making them feel afraid if we, whether that is

social media or elsewhere. But in the Labour Party, there is also a

nasty faction, again reminiscent of the 1980s and the far left,

which... You may laugh but they have threatened violence against MPs. I

think individuals have threatened MPs. Whether they are Labour Party

members or whatever is... But the key to it is that Jeremy Corbyn will

not fall for Richard Lee denounce those people. -- not completely

denounce those people, who are his ideological supporters. He does

denounce those people who are threatening his opponent in the

Labour Party. This is a huge organisation... The did a survey

this last week. It was of Labour Party constituencies. There has been

a massive increase in support for Jeremy Corbyn and a massive increase

in membership but they are more interested in campaigning on social

issues and things like that than trying to oust current MPs were

deemed to be right wing. We have quite a lot to get through. Britain

poised to open the door to thousands of migrant children. We have had the

very meagre and mean spirited pledge by David Cameron to take in 4000

migrants per year on hundreds of thousands of them are coming into

Europe at the moment. It is very much Britain not doing its fair

share to address this crisis. But there are 3000 unaccompanied

children who have been somehow separated from their families and it

is now feared they could be at risk of falling prey to child

traffickers, and so David Cameron it seems willing to step in at that

stage to help them. You have got to have the services in place here for

when they arrive... I think there was a high water mark in terms of

British public opinion about migrants and migrant children, in

particular, that photograph last summer of that poor little boy

washed up dead on the beach. Clearly if there is a humanitarian crisis

involving unaccompanied children... You would hope... It was Margaret

Thatcher who said surely it is not beyond the wit of man to fix that

sort of thing. There are not that many people involved. There is

probably opinion polling on this but I don't censor a great swell of

public opinion in this country now in favour of letting in more

refugees. I think it has subsided. And I wonder... Somebody has to take

care of these children, whether it is social services or someone else,

and I wonder how many bighearted British people are went off to

foster or adopt the parent was Syrian child if we let them in? --

off Syrian child. Probably quite a lot. Quickly, the main picture

here. New York in America's east coast buried in a blizzard. You can

barely tell that they are cars under all that snow. We also have live

pictures from Times Square tonight. This is the beauty of live

television, everybody. There is. Is looking pretty but it is lethal in

places. How many people? 17. It was only 13 an hour ago was clearly a

lethal storm in the US. And it seems that people are unfortunately going

out and travelling when they are best to stay at home. Schools told

to drop university snobbery. We should think of friendships and

skills as equivalent. So says the Education Secretary, which is quite

a strange turn around and that we have been trying to encourage young

people to go into universities of 20 years now, opening the system.

Increasing tuition fees because it is such a valuable thing to have a

degree, and now she is trying to turn the clock back. On the one

hand, if children are not suited to university, it is a good thing that

they are not laden down with massive debt are laws by these tuition

fees, but on the other hand... The Conservative Party are supposed to

be part of ambition and the idea that they just trying to dissuade

people from getting a great education at some of the great

institutions is quite strange. I think that as a practical matter we

need more young people to be taking on apprenticeships and things that

we need young people to be qualified to do, such as coding, planning,

being an electrician and holding trades. London is crying out for

skilled workers in all of those fields. And so I can understand why

the government would want to boost the idea of apprenticeships as a

concept but whether we like it or not, young people are bright or less

bright and the right of the child, the more suited they are likely to

be to go to university and get a good degree in a proper subject and

go on to make a lot of money for themselves and their country. You

need to have proper alternatives. Some schemes have been criticised as

not being robust enough or fit for purpose on the apprenticeship sided

thing. Government after government has to find some way of replicating

the German model where they do have robust apprenticeships in trades and

where that is seen as a valid and worthwhile and laudable thing for

young people to do. In this country, no matter what they degree is in or

where it comes from, we do tend to put that in terms of status above

those who did not go to university. And if there is a blurring of that

distinction, that would be all to the good. Let us finish with the

Times. Stinky teenagers losing sleep. There is a very good reason,

apparently, to insist that your teenager's bedroom is regularly

ventilated. Apparently, yes. Windows should be opened and the heating

turned down because the recirculation of germs and

everything else in the rooms of teenagers can cause insomnia and

have the effect of lowering their educational performance. In fact,

they are so concerned, according to this report, that they are wondering

whether teenagers need sleep education lesson, which is something

I never considered any of my kids needing. Most of them just want to

sleep forever. And the later start time for school, which I can imagine

going down very well. They have tried that in some places but then

they have to stay behind later. I like this story. It does give every

parent of a teenager, and I have three and I'm not going to see if

any of them marks Digi or not, but it does that make any of them are

stinky or not but it does give you an excuse to tell them to clean the

rooms. There is a good chemical reason. I'm going to cut that out

and take it home and show mine. He is not stinky but he does not like

to have us window open. Coming up next,

it's time for the Film Review. You should come back again together.

You have to pull faces and fight. It would not be good on the box office

if you just agreed.