28/03/2016 The Papers

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Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers

With me are Claire Cohen, the Deputy Women's Editor at the

Daily Telegraph, and Rob Merrick, the Parliamentary Journalist.

Tomorrow's front pages, starting with:

The Express says one in five people believe they will

have to work into their 70s or face poverty in old age.

The Metro leads with teachers at the NUT conference calling

for the Government to drop an initiative that would require

them to report pupils over views they express in the classroom.

The New Day has a feature on the increasing number of children

being arrested for firearms offences - currently nine every week.

The Telegraph says senior fire officers are claiming retirement

payouts by leaving their jobs and then returning shortly afterwards.

The FT leads with the Chinese insurance firm Anbang increasing

its offer to takeover Starwood Hotels - extending a bidding war

The Guardian says Pakistan's army have arrested 'a number'

of suspects across Punjab province, a day after a suicide bomb killed

The Times claims a growing number of British expats are returning home

because of uncertainties over what will happen if the UK leaves the EU.

And the Mail continues with the EU theme, leading with a report

from Vote Leave, which says free movement has allowed

dozens of foreign criminals to commit serious offences in the UK.

Let's start with the Guardian. A fascinating story, Brussels is urged

to fight the West. The sad texts presumably coming from is the state

or people affiliated with it urging youth to fight. Really interesting

story on the front page of the Guardian. These texts were sent over

the weekend to use in Molenbeek. Beverley knows where they came from

-- two years. Why not fight the Westerners and make the right choice

in your life, they say? It comes hot on the heels of a video on Facebook

apparently showing local youths celebrating the attacks in Brussels,

and that was from a prepaid account they could not be traced. It is

worrying, that sort of what we ready new, that this battle is being

fought on social media and via text message as well as on the ground --

already knew. You only have to look back at the girls being recruited as

jihadi brides, three girls from Bethnal Green who were recruited on

Twitter. It comes hot on the heels of that. They were targeting young

men in Molenbeek, which we know is of concern. It is a rundown area of

Brussels. And predominately Muslim as well. It seems as if they have

the numbers to send the text messages from Isis recruits. They

will download all of the contacts from phones, harvest those numbers,

and send out those text messages. There is no suggestion that people

receive the text messages are Isis sympathisers necessarily. They have

just had contact with people who became Isis recruits. They are

almost trying to start writing in a particular area, which can only add

the siege mentality that Molenbeek has received. It speaks about a far

right group trying to hold a demonstration in that area next

Saturday, but a similar group disrupted a vigil the other day. It

is thrown much centred on this one area. People are discussing all the

time how does a young Muslim, a teenage girl or boy, young man or

woman, the, radicalised? Often when I have had discussions like this and

with experts as well, what you often hear is it is not a simple

radicalisation. -- how do they become radicalised? It is social

injustice, lack of opportunity, rebellion. It makes the whole issue

much more complicated than stopping medicalisation on the Internet.

Experts have talked about it not so much being the radicalisation of

Islam. There will not pick up arms just because of a text. They talk

about the is my session of radicalism, so people would think

for a cause because they are genuinely dissatisfied with their

lives or have particular beefs. -- Islamisation. They attach themselves

to the extreme Islamic causes as a means of pursuing radicalism rather

than perhaps Islam in general becoming more radical. It is people

just generally dissatisfied. A lot of these teenagers have typical

teenage issues, they are disaffected, looking to rebel,

looking for answers and someone to listen to. They are being misled as

well which is why some have come back. We should move on.

Fascinating, but we have other stories. Let's move on to the Daily

Mail, and the headline that the cost of our open borders. This is

presumably about EU free movement. This is a report from the exit

campaign, vote to leave, saying 50 of the most dangerous European

criminals have entered Europe freely and have committed further crimes

over here. It goes on to say that EU membership will make the UK less

safe and less secure. That's what the Brexit campaign say. It is

conjecture, Frickley. We don't have any idea whether it will not --

frankly. We don't know how a Brexit or otherwise will affect our

borders. It is another talking head from that campaign without much

clarity of thought. It highlights one of the big issues, which is free

movement. That is what people are worried about. I think there really

is a thinking, great, a story about the EU referendum, just what we were

waiting for. That phrase is interesting, staying in would make

the UK less safe and secure. The Prime Minister says if we leave we

will be less safe and secure. I think people are confused. They have

letting dozens of foreign criminals, but most people would dispute that

in this story, but that foreign criminals have come to Britain, but

whether it is free movement rules that have allowed them to do so. We

still have passport checks, we are not part of the Schengen area. That

will not change whether we are part of the EU or not. We will have to

wait until June to find out if Britain quits the EU, but some

experts are doing that already, coming home. Thousands return home

amid exit fees. One does wonder how it will affect Brits abroad. It is

an odd story because it starts suggesting that Brits wilfully

Europe and come back to Britain, but this is been happening for the past

two years and 72,000 Britons have ready left Spain. -- Brits will flee

Europe. We have read about the eurozone crisis and Brits fleeing

Spain and coming home because of sponsoring property prices in

difficulty getting jobs. And things getting more expensive. -- echoes of

rising poverty prices and difficulty getting jobs. Ahead of the

referendum, why would you disrupt your life in the dream you have had

of living abroad and come home now ahead of the vote? Does not make

sense. But it makes sense that people would come home if we vote to

leave, and the consequence may be that they lose the right of free

healthcare. This is not just an issue for expats. The numbers are

startling. Tens of thousands of British pensioners, hundreds of

thousands, in both France and Spain. Fewer than 100 Spanish pensioners

here or French pensioners here. We have a great deal at the moment.

They sent over the young people who work for us, pay taxes and make us

rich, we send out old people over there who cause an enormous cost on

the health services. It raises questions over what happens to those

who have settled here from the European Union. The daily Mirror,

this is a shocking story. I am not especially shocked because I did an

investigation into this some years ago. Kids of ten in gun crime

epidemic. Hundreds of children cope with weapons. I did an investigation

where I revealed that children as young as nine or ten could hire a

gun on what was often referred to as the Hackney mile because there were

so many murders. It shows guns are in Britain. Maybe not as many as

other countries, but it is a huge problem. This has come out because

of a freedom of information request. The feeling seems to be that

children are being used as meals for gangs or at having guns as a status

thing. Having a gun is seen as having power, the statement says. It

is going culture. It is a shocking thing. We are used to seeing

headlines to do with kids when it is digital crime, cybercrime. The last

time I saw a headline about kids that age, they were being caught up

in revenge born online. It is visceral in that sense. But they

might be to its -- but there might be more to it. The most arresting

thing is the idea that it is kids age and is ten, but it is about 500

year arrested for gun offences. That is triggering in general, so

obviously a small number that will be that age. Most cases involving

young children are probably imitation weapons, which might be

serious, they might be a rivals and that sort of thing. -- air rifles. I

think you have to understand going culture as well, because you have

these different names for different gangs, but you have the elders, by

the real criminals. You have the young people, who have to prove

their worth and what to get in on the gang. Gang recruitment does

start at that age, ten or 11. You might start with an imitation gun.

What does it lead to? We have about one minute for each of these three

stories. The front page of the daily Telegraph. Anger over payments to

retiring fire chiefs. They are coming back after a nice pay-out. We

have long heard about boomerang bosses in the NHS and Whitehall.

This is slightly different in that these fire chiefs are taking

then coming back to work as little then coming back to work as little

as a day later with hugely inflated salaries. It is quite embarrassing,

actually. It is a time when fire services are under huge that. There

are stations being closed and people losing jobs and you have these

people coming back on huge salaries is not great for the fire service.

They claim it saves money as they don't have to recruit anybody. We

have run out of time. There are so many stories on the front page of

the daily Telegraph, but I think we picked one of the best ones. They

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