13/06/2016 The Papers

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

us tomorrow. With me as broadcaster Rachel Shabi and the editor of the

Spectator, Toby Young. Good evening to both of you. Let us get straight

on to this. Most papers are still talking about the terrible events in

Orlando but now we have the politicians weighing in, Hillary

Clinton and Donald Trump. Yes, and as we may expect a have

quite different styles in responding to this terrible attack in which 49

people were killed. You would expect at this time, obviously people are

still mourning and are still in shock and traumatised so you would

expect something quite unifying, calls for solidarity and cohesion.

You got the exact opposite with Trump who was quick to point fingers

not just that Islam but both Clinton and President Obama for what he says

was not taking the issue seriously. This amazing quote here where he

says, we're being led by a man who is either not smart or not tough or

has something else going on. This is inconceivable. This is even by his

standards inflammatory. It is. It is awful. I don't think

he's the only candidate politicising this. Clinton said that she would

work to defeat Islamic extremism and call for tough on -- tougher gun

control. She has said some consolatory things and good things

but she is not innocent of politicising this either.

I think there would have been at least a decent pause before battle

resumed between the politicians if it happened in this country.

You hope so but who knows. We don't have much time tonight so

let us move on. This is the heart of Soho that came to a standstill.

There was a terrorist attack in this area a few years ago against gay

people when annual bomb was let off. Terrific to see so many people. It

was not just in London. There were events in Palace and Sydney and

elsewhere. Extraordinary. We were broadcasting

the silence from the middle of London. Quite extraordinary.

You could not not be moved by these scenes. In Soho, the heart of the

LGBT community in the UK and across the world scenes of solidarity and

support. It is hard not to be moved. They are such a powerful counter to

the hate that we saw in Orlando. What do you make of the emotional

out pouring? Sometimes people get criticised for it not being

something directly to do with them but this has gone worldwide.

I do not think you can criticise people for being emotional about

this. People can imagine being trapped in this nightclub with

someone with an automatic weapon just indiscriminately murdering

people. And it is solidarity with a

homophobic hate crime and that is what all this solidarity is about.

It is in support of a community that has been targeted just for being a

particular community. Let us hope that nothing similar

takes place, no copycat things. Back to the referendum, you cannot avoid

it. I think you have got to Leeds the stories very carefully to see

which all we are talking about. What the question has been, I do not

know. But in terms of do you want to leave or do you want to remain, it

shows that the Leave campaign has taken a lead, according to this

poll. It has become a 1-point gap for the levers. It seems this was

the electorate as a whole and not just people who were intending to

vote. But you do have to read it

carefully. The headline is that amongst those certain to Vote Leave

has taken a 1-point lead but amongst the entire electrode lead is five

points behind remain. Admittedly, Leave his catching up and Remain is

falling behind but it is slightly misleading.

And the Daily Telegraph standard-bearer for the Leave

campaign have to look at it and do that prison.

But it is being corroborated by one or two others tonight.

Look at the Sun newspaper tonight. They do like to think the influence

things. Whether newspapers do or not I'm not so sure that they are

nailing their colours to the mast. I don't think it is surprising that

they have come out as they have been pity pro leave. I don't think you

can dispute that it is good for democracy that the newspapers are

roughly evenly split this time. Back in 1975 the sun was pro-remain apart

from every other major national newspaper.

That is not my impression. Of course nobody is surprised by The Sun

backing Leave. But it does skew things. The front pages of The Sun

-- of newspapers of the last few months has had a stream of panic

stories. If the proprietors were different and the headlines were

different what would that no look like? I don't know if it is great

for democracy when we have right wing privately owned newspapers as a

norm. There are left-wing newspapers such

as the Guardian and the Observer campaigning for remain.

They are the one. How do you have the Daily Mail being

pro leave and the Mail on Sunday being pro-remain?

Conspiracy is not the word I used. The other subject we cannot get away

from is the third ball. Where do we start? These rather frightful

looking gentleman are from Russia. They do not look that Savary. This

is a thing that is emerging, that there were 150 hard-core Russian

thugs that were well and were planning this. This is one of the

reasons why it needed difficult to catch them.

This is a frightening prospect. I was upset about the coverage that

these episodes got on Saturday night with seemingly the England fans

being cast as the villain is because of their poor reputation but the

more you read about what happened on the ground, it is clear that for the

most part innocent England fans were attacked by groups of well-organised

Ushant bugs wearing mixed martial arts gloves, ready to fight. This is

the point that great date that -- Greg Dyke has made today.

Football does not exist in a vacuum. We have seen a rise of the far right

across Europe. Of course that is going to leak into football.

I don't think that is true of England.

I think England has some responsibility here and it is not

entirely blameless. Thank you both very much. I am

afraid that is in it. Don't forget, all the front pages are online on

the BBC News website we can read a detailed review of the papers seven

days a week. And you can see a spear again, what it alight. -- what a

delight. Goodbye.