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Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
Including how often should you wash your genes? -- jeans? | :00:21. | :00:33. | |
With me are Martin Bentham of the London Evening Standard, and | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
Tomorrow's front pages, starting with: The FT says that | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
George Osborne will announce ?4 billion worth of spending | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
That story also leads the i, which says that the gap | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
between Britain's rich and poor is now wider than ever. | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
The Metro says that campaigners attacked Mr Osborne over proposed | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
Boris Johnson has called Barack Obama's plan to warn Britons | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
against leaving the EU a piece of outrageous and | :00:57. | :00:58. | |
exorbitant hypocrisy, according to the Daily Telegraph. | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
The Sun says that the BBC show Top Gear was accused of disrespecting | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
the war dead after filming a stunt near to the Cenotaph. | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
The New Day has an investigation on the cost of childcare. | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
It says nursery care for two children costs more than | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
The Daily Mail leads on the German regional elections, | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
reporting that voters have delivered a crushing verdict on | :01:21. | :01:22. | |
The Times also splashes with that story, reporting that the hard-right | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
Alternative for Germany had upended the political order. | :01:27. | :01:36. | |
That is where we are going to begin. And the regional elections for | :01:37. | :01:44. | |
Germany on the front of the Times. Angry voters flocking to a new anti- | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
immigrant party who not so long ago Angela Merkel didn't seem to be too | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
concerned about. They didn't exist not so long ago. They were set up a | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
bunch of academics who wanted to oppose the single currency, the | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
euro. Three years later they say things like... They have beaten her | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
and a lot of the areas,", which is very worrying for her because the | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
position is clear. They don't want any refugees and also they have said | :02:16. | :02:17. | |
that one of the things they might like to do if they couldn't stop | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
them coming in was shoot them at the border. Is this truly what they say? | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
Yes, and it says that in The Times, it must be true! This is a party | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
that is very right wing. They have never had such a right wing, | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
populist party do well in Germany before, and they are a serious | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
threat to Angela Merkel who is up for election nationally next year. | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
Even her own party, her own government, has thought again about | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
the massive immigration on such a huge scale. They did have another | :02:52. | :02:59. | |
populist party in the 1930s as I recall. Angela Merkel had a | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
generous, well motivated policy which has rather backfired | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
politically and indeed in general, because as you have said, the | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
government has to try to find solutions to this absolutely | :03:16. | :03:17. | |
unstoppable flow of people coming over, that is not just Germany, but | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
other countries in the European Union which are struggling to cope | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
with and are finding it very hard. You have had similar attempts to | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
restrict the arrival of anti- refugee policies in various other | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
countries on the route to Germany, and you have now got a new plan, of | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
course, where she wants to innocence have people being sent back from | :03:39. | :03:46. | |
arriving in Europe and returning to Turkey. She is trying to sell that | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
plan to the rest of the EU. This comes at that time, and basically | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
there is an enormous problem, on top of which she is now paying an | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
enormous price back home because although they have not won the | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
majority of the vote or anything of that sort but as you have said it is | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
a very significant vote for people who are from a perspective that | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
doesn't really... It is also an area that doesn't have many migrants in | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
it which has delivered the biggest vote towards this new party. To fill | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
you in on that, they once said that they should be shot at the border as | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
a last resort. Very moderating! Looking at the Telegraph, Boris | :04:30. | :04:37. | |
complaining about hypocrite Obama. This is Barack Obama, who is due to | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
come over here and will be reiterating that the US would like | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
us to stay in the European Union. Boris is saying actually, coming | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
from the United States which resist any kind of international | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
jurisdiction, and is very protective of its ability to run its own | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
affairs and so on, this is great hypocrisy and shouldn't be listened | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
to, in effect. That is in essence the argument he is putting across. | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
Lots of world leaders, the Chinese have also been asked what they think | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
about Britain's future, should we be in or out? Of course we will ask | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
them, and Obama says we should stay in because we would have an | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
influence on the world stage but here in the Telegraph, Boris, the | :05:23. | :05:33. | |
aforementioned he, is giving a whole lot of reasons why the Americans | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
don't kneel to almost any international jurisdiction and he | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
gives all sorts of examples of why the Americans do not and we have two | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
in Europe, which he is citing is one reason why he thinks we shouldn't be | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
staying in that, and he thinks the Americans should get off turf. And | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
actually, what the Americans think, and part of the reasons the | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
Americans want us skin is so they can exercise an influence with a | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
State which is sympathetic to their worldview, not in terms of economics | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
and International relations, which can exercise influence which they | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
will like the rest of the European Union. In other words, it is in bear | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
interest and not necessarily ours. And actually, with all these other | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
countries we might want to stay it is really our decision -- in their | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
interest. Before or after he had been to Cuba, I can't remember | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
which. Obama, not Boris. They don't get a chance to vote, but we can. | :06:34. | :06:45. | |
New attack in Ankara. Officials quick to blame the Kurdish group for | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
the latest outrage. There are various Kurdish groups, of course, | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
at which the Turkish government is trying to clamp down on. Well, there | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
is a massive problem with Kurdish groups in Turkey at the moment, | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
according to the politicians who run Turkey, they have a severe problem. | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
And this is their third considerably horrible attack in the capital and | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
the last six months. And Kurdish groups, of course, would say that | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
they are not treated fairly, not treated equally. Some arguing, some | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
commentators saying that this might push the government towards some | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
kind of negotiation with these groups. Well, they did have a | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
ceasefire agreement with the Kurdish groups until last year, it didn't | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
break down completely, as a result of the bombing carried out by | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
Islamic State, it was blamed on the Kurds. Was responsibility on the | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
Turkish government, the people themselves, or the Kurdish groups | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
responsible for these attacks subsequently, this one is one of | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
several, they have reacted against that crackdown by the Turkish | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
authorities in this sort of fashion. If this particular attack, which is | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
unconfirmed, is by them. Of course, the Turkish government has often | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
pinned the blame on them and so on. So it is a very, very difficult | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
situation which seems to be being inflamed and getting worse rather | :08:18. | :08:24. | |
than better. We are about to lose The Independent, which probably | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
means eventually it is not going to exist. Let's hope not. I hope not as | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
well because I think that front-page picture is probably the best of any | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
of the papers today. Let's go back to the Times, with three stories, | :08:40. | :08:46. | |
The Times is doing well out of it tonight, mathematics crisis is | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
putting British pupils at the back of the class. I feel like I have | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
read this headline many times. That is part of the point. This is the | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
OECD which is saying that we have a curriculum which is a mile wide and | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
an inch deep and the pupils only have a shallow grasp of the subject. | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
We have had numerous attempts to rewrite the maths curriculum. All | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
sorts of changes including more algebra and so on and yet here is | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
this conclusion is saying that actually we are not doing very well | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
at all. That actually one thing it says here which is quite | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
interesting, to our concern with financial education, one of these | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
things that they say everybody should be doing about, they are | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
saying actually we are spending too much time on the practical things | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
rather than actually understanding the real concepts of maths. It is | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
saying we spent too long on memorisation, and I think we learned | :09:38. | :09:44. | |
by rote, or we used to. I can still do my times tables. This is an | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
incredibly... I can't remember anyone like the OECD, the | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
Organisation for economic co-operation and development, and | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
this is their head of education who are saying it, so it is an | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
incredibly strong source. I look at secondary school maths, it doesn't | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
look that different from the maths I did. It is very different from the | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
Chinese, that is the point he is making. The Chinese learn for | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
example love of maths and using it in their lives. The evidence is | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
these days in grounding it in real life examples. That is what they are | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
saying is actually wrong, and that we need to know the theory and the | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
depth of the subject rather than practical things and how to apply | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
it. It says Chinese students can think like scientists. We are often | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
made to think that what the Chinese do is a very traditional, old-style | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
learning, with at all drummed into them and not actually thinking so | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
much in that sense. They are saying it is the opposite. If we looked at | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
our schools, it is very difficult to get good maths teachers and in fact | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
they are trying to offer bribes to get good people to become maths | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
teachers. I bet if we looked at the gender analysis we would find fewer | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
women do matter and certainly far fewer women become scientists so we | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
do have a problem. Now the question of the day, how often do you wash | :11:06. | :11:17. | |
your genes? -- jeans? I am slightly concerned that Daniel Craig is the | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
picture here. The thing you looked up was that you shouldn't wash them | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
at all. I had a quick look online about how often you should wash your | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
genes. Does Daniel Craig not wash his at all? I'm sure he does. | :11:33. | :11:39. | |
According to the CEO of Levi Strauss, the answer to how often you | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
should wash your genes is never. He never washes his. -- wash your | :11:46. | :11:55. | |
jeans. It has more to do with environmentalism than hygiene. You | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
should put your genes in the freezer once a month to kill off the | :12:02. | :12:08. | |
bacteria. Imagine how grubby and smelly they would be. We are | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
fascinated by this, aren't we? I am fascinated because I have learned a | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
lot about Martin and a straw poll of one person, two to three times it | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
gets worn and then washed. It is a great tease because it makes you | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
want to read the article so it has worked very well. I am a bit worried | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
about Daniel Craig. If I ever met him I shall ask him. It has worked. | :12:32. | :12:39. | |
And finally, Best in show. The picture on the front of the Times is | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
a very cute fluffy West Highland terrier who has won top prize at | :12:45. | :12:53. | |
Crufts. We have picked this because someone on Twitter asked us to say | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
something chirpy. It has been so horrible today. So this is your | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
chirpy bit. And of course I am Scottish and it is a West Highland. | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
Do you watch this? Know, and I don't have a dog however that is a very | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
good dog and deserves to be on the front page. It does look very | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
sweet. I imagine it has been washed and shampooed and conditioned and | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
blowdried to within a an inch of its life. Very cute, well done Georgy | :13:21. | :13:36. | |
girl. Most people have got elaborate -- Labradoodles. | :13:37. | :13:37. | |
We now know about Martin and his jeans. It was all right, we survived | :13:38. | :13:47. | |
it. | :13:48. | :13:49. |