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tonight's games in the Scottish Cup and the Scottish premiership, and | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Ronnie O'Sullivan with more on his decision not to make a 147 in the | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
World Cup of snooker. Hello, and welcome to | :00:08. | :00:14. | |
our look ahead to what the papers With me are Caroline Daniel, | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
the editor of the Weekend FT, and Matthew Syed, | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
a columnist at the Times. Tomorrow's front page, | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
starting with: The Times reports that the Palace has denied that | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
a speech by Prince William backed That is the lead, too, | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
in the Telegraph, which says the Duke's remarks echo | :00:31. | :00:38. | |
the intervention by the Queen on "Shut your Cakehole" is the Sun's | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
headline. It is a reference to comments | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
by the actress Emma Thompson, who has apparently described the UK | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
as a "cake-filled, misery-laden, The FT says Saudi Arabia and Russia | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
have agreed to freeze oil output in the Guardian reports that | :00:51. | :01:00. | |
a new report has highlighted high The Mirror leads on the missing | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
junior doctor Rose Polge, who left And finally, the Express says house | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
prices are rising by an average That is good news if you've got a | :01:11. | :01:29. | |
house. A lot of people don't is the problem. The Times says don't push | :01:30. | :01:37. | |
us into Brexit. This isn't an editorial. Not yet... You think that | :01:38. | :01:46. | |
is how they are going to go? It is a strange story because it has been a | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
mixed day for David Cameron in Europe. The European Parliament has | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
suggested they have some issues with the deal and they have a right to | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
have a say on how the deal might go down in terms of being able to vote | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
on it. On the other hand they also stressed that they don't have the | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
right of veto over the proposed solution but they had some push back | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
today and that wasn't great for David Cameron. He wants to have it | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
signed, sealed and delivered. He doesn't want to have some ambiguity | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
about the Brits voting on a referendum and later on the European | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
Parliament undoing it. He has been under pressure from the Eastern | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
European bloc as well, over the concessions around migrants and some | :02:27. | :02:28. | |
of their benefits but I think this is... I rather like the fact that in | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
the first sentence we see a rather stressed David Cameron because they | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
want to give the sense of Time running out, the only having until | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
Friday and then he can come out and win some of these issues. Some of | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
this is just a bit of drama. Going back to my initial point, and this | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
is in your newspaper, The Times, is this the way that they are Leaning, | :02:55. | :03:03. | |
do you think? Don't push Britain into Brexit? This is an imputed | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
quote from Cameron, and it could just be choreography, as you say. I | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
think there will be a lot of this manoeuvring in the build-up to the | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
discussion at the end of the week but some of the detail is quite fun. | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
He is normally so very relaxed, a senior European official said he | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
looks terribly, terribly stressed and he is worried according to this | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
report that MEPs will water down an agreement which was already sorted | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
by a great deal of the British press. And that could end his | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
premiership and tarnish his legacy. But I suspect, I'm with you. One | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
thing is that there is a lot of manoeuvring and smoke signalling at | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
the moment. Secondly, most people will not make a decision on the | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
future referendum on them initiate of child benefits -- the minutiae. | :03:54. | :04:05. | |
They will make it on how they feel about written's future. So this is | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
not as significant as it seems. And the suggestion he is pleading with | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
European MEPs to save his deal, he is in fact arguing with his own MPs. | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
This is a far more important domestic issue than what one MEP may | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
do. The largest groups in the Parliament made clear their support | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
for British reforms. That is hardly MEPs pushing Britain into Brexit. If | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
we go to the Independent, the eastern bloc tells Cameron has | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
benefits plan is unacceptable. You were pretty relaxed just then. It | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
sounded as though you thought that... Don't over into print. | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
That's what I always do, over interpret. -- over interpret. It is | :04:50. | :04:58. | |
just posturing. It is a poker game. When it comes to the negotiation, | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
each has to show that they are willing to walk away if they don't | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
get their minimum conditions. And so they are, as it were, exaggerating | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
what they can do. So the other thing that is worth throwing into this, is | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
Prince William has weighed in. Not just MEPs, not just European | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
Commission, it is the future monarch who has given a coded message that | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
you don't think is significant at all and I think is rather fun, that | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
we should stay in. A coded message not even mentioning the word | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
Europe. The eastern bloc is basically saying they want Britain | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
to walk an extra mile for the deal. They are not happy with Britain | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
doing this anyway. They want to make Britain sweat a bit and they | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
wouldn't mind the fact that David Cameron looks a bit stressed. And | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
they have their own constituencies as well which they have to play | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
too, no question about that. We are not going to talk about its William, | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
we did that in the previous hour. But we will talk about another | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
member of royalty, acting royalty. This is Emma Thompson who has | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
attacked what she called a cake filled, misery laid in Britain, | :06:09. | :06:20. | |
saying that we should shut out cakeholes. Not quite, the Sun says | :06:21. | :06:30. | |
that she should shut her cakehole. Is that the Victoria sponge? I love | :06:31. | :06:39. | |
Victoria sponges. It is crucial, the proportion of cream. Britain's parts | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
are the envy of the world. It is one of those kinds of stories -- tarts. | :06:47. | :06:54. | |
You had Michael Caine a few months ago coming out as very Eurosceptic. | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
Now we have a left-wing lobby coming out, a pro- EU lobby. She did make a | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
slightly unfortunate statement during a press conference promoting | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
a film in Berlin, so she sort of rift on what she thinks about the EU | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
-- riffed. It is a great headline but I don't think it will make a | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
substantial change to the debate. Will this really affect the man on | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
the Clapham omnibus? More successful than the EU is jam sponge. It is all | :07:27. | :07:34. | |
about the lightness of the sponge. It has to be light and fluffy, there | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
is no question. I think she is one of the great actresses. Sense and | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
Sensibility, one of my favourite films. I can understand saying we | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
want to be part of Europe, but that doesn't mean we have to be negative | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
about Britain. I'm quite surprised how shrill... I mean, she was asked | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
in a movie press conference so she may have been taken out of context. | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
Wu Mac it is a reference to the week about the British like to moan -- | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
she may be trying to convince too many topical news events. Into one | :08:10. | :08:20. | |
piece of fabulous Victoria sponge. The Sun also has that quote. But we | :08:21. | :08:28. | |
are going to go on to the Financial Times. The Saudis and Russia agree | :08:29. | :08:35. | |
on output freezing bid to halt oil price slide. This is a freeze so as | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
you are suggesting earlier this is hopefully perhaps the bottom of the | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
slide? This is an important intervention but it is not just one | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
the market wanted. They wanted them to cut production so the oil price | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
would go back up and we are all back in the energy game again. Instead | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
they have said they will stop production where it is and they want | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
to get other countries like Venezuela and Iran to also agreed to | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
halt extra production in the hope that that will stop the oil price | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
sliding but they could have done a lot more, and so people will be | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
disappointed. But the hope, I think, for an average consumer is | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
actually the slide in oil won't go down to $10 a barrel which some | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
people have been gloomily forecasting and it may stick around | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
$30 which is a bleak what the scientists want to achieve, which is | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
to cause trouble for the American fracking companies. They have been | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
trying to deal with ) companies over in the United States and put them | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
out of business. They have managed to do that with some independent | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
producers -- some fracking companies. They have had to bring in | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
a Budget which was the most stringent and cost-cutting, I | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
suppose you could say, in a long time in the kingdom. This isn't just | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
about economics for Saudi Arabia. It is about the long-term political | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
integrity. Survival. As if America becomes independent, energy | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
independent, on the basis of that relationship, which is essentially | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
about the US providing protection and arms in return for oil, changes | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
fundamentally and the attempt to keep the price low, private capital | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
has been driven into loss-making for the fracking companies in America. | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
It is interesting they have made this strategic decision now. What I | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
don't understand is that OPEC tripled the oil price in the 70s, | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
there was stagflation. Now the price has gone down, it is also a | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
disaster. You can't get it right. This is very true. Going onto the | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
Guardian. High sugar content of hot drinks. Now this isn't just your | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
normal cup of coffee or anything. This is this big things with fruit | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
in and all kinds of cream on top. I mean, they look as if they are going | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
to give you a heart attack anyway. I know where you're coming from, but | :11:03. | :11:12. | |
if I was offered in a Starbucks chai great -- grape latte, I wouldn't | :11:13. | :11:24. | |
think it has 25 teaspoons of sugar. I am fine with any ingredient in any | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
product so long as the label is clear. That puts the onus on the | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
consumer to manage what they consume. But I want clear labelling. | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
I went to New York a couple of years ago and had a couple of frappe -- | :11:40. | :11:53. | |
frappucinos. It was so cloying. Sugar is the new salt and the new | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
tobacco. We are getting these stories regularly about the hidden | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
problems that sugar can sort of highlight. This would not have been | :12:03. | :12:09. | |
front-page news a while ago. And what is equally interesting is that | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
Starbucks is saying it will commit to reducing sugar in its tricks by | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
25% but not until the end of 2020. -- in its drinks. That seems a long | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
time when we already know the impact, I would say for the really | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
big ventis you should disclose how much sugar is in them. For most of | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
the drinks they tested, two thirds of them had less than a can of | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
Coca-Cola in terms of sugar. I think the most extraordinary thing is the | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
fact that it says hot chocolate is a fashionable hot drink these days. | :12:41. | :12:51. | |
What will be next? We are going to go to the Times. Prescribed drugs to | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
tackle Britain's gambling epidemic. That sounds weird. There are two | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
different things. I am really interested in the Times picking this | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
as something to investigate because these... What are they called? Fixed | :13:06. | :13:12. | |
odds machines, they are the crack cocaine of gambling and they take | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
?300 a minute. I had a friend who was addicted to gambling and went | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
into the most horrific downward spiral and the advertising is | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
everywhere. You cannot watch any sporting coverage without seeing | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
blanket advertising, both on the television screen and on the shirts | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
and on the sponsors. And I think it is a problem, and I think, you know, | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
as I said in the previous answer, I'm worried about the state getting | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
too involved in these kinds of issues but it is interesting The | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
Times has gone after this. I am deeply worried about medicalising | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
this, allowing doctors to look at the list of conditions and then to | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
start prescribing, in this case, a drug. I think there has been far too | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
big moves over the last or four Mac decades to medicalise behaviours | :14:01. | :14:07. | |
which should be dealt with. -- three or four decades. What is drug | :14:08. | :14:15. | |
actually do? It is a drug prescribed to people with addictions to alcohol | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
and other drugs, it reduces the neurotransmitters involved in | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
oxytocin and of that kind. Opiates. Onto the Telegraph, finally, British | :14:26. | :14:34. | |
children are the laziest. Discussed. There wasn't a lot of proof in this | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
story. Good headline though. I was more concerned about the fact they | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
were apparently doing the least the work of any child, so that has been | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
a concern for me. And it does say that thousands of children had also | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
had to disclose attitudes to possessions and the iPhones and it | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
doesn't say anything about their interest to possessions and iPhones, | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
just talks about them being lazy. That is unfair to Britain's youth. | :15:01. | :15:08. | |
So says a woman from the Financial Times talking about a story on the | :15:09. | :15:09. | |
front of the Telegraph. Thank you to Caroline Daniel | :15:10. | :15:11. | |
and Matthew Syed. Coming up next, | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
it is time for Sportsday. | :15:15. | :15:16. |