31/07/2016 The Papers

government commitment to triple lock pensions, a former minister has said

it has outlived its purpose. -- age UK.

Our guests joining us tonight are the broadcaster,

Natalie Haynes and Rob Merrick, who's the Westminster Correspondent

The front page tomorrow starting with the FT, according to the paper

to reason may faces a revolt after her lukewarm attitude to China with

one minister ready to quit. The heat is on for Sir Philip Green after the

collapse of BHS. Bad news for savers as they warn of a double whammy of

rising inflation and record low interest rates. Donald Trump is long

busted after his comments on a Muslim serviceman killed in Iraq.

Anger in the Telegraph over the resignation honours list for David

Cameron including his wife's stylist. The same story leads that

I. 24 honours for the former Prime Minister's entourage. They'll also

the lead in the Daily Mail which says all but one will be going to

people on the same side as him in the campaign to remain in the

European Union. Let's begin with the honours and how it is reported in

the Daily Telegraph. Tories in on a revolt, David Cameron accused of

devaluing the system by giving an award to his wife's stylist. That

would be the one they pick out that there are a lot of other people.

They don't have to give these awards with David Cameron has chosen to.

The last time I was sat it was the night David Cameron resigned and we

were talking about what he may do next and what Prime Minister he

would want to be and we agreed he would not want to be like Tony Blair

in the way it has been tarnished so badly. If that is the case it seems

like he has not made a good start because he ran through these

enormous payoffs against top level civil service advisors and now they

were not enough and all of the staff are going to get a gun. I say almost

all of them but it is because 48, some to other politicians and his

wife ayes stylist. Other taking a slightly sniffy time that a driver

is getting an award, a stylist because if that is what your job is,

that's what you do, you can still do it well. They are making a classist

statements, the idea that women might need help dressing for the

untold scrutiny of save the newspapers is unthinkable I'm sure

to the people writing the Daily Telegraph but it is very hard. I

clearly look like I said to my close until I got here and for some people

I may still but somebody spent some time making me look neater. We all

turn up looking less than best. Somebody makes you look nice and it

is an heroic effort as far as I'm concerned. There doesn't seem to me

to be intrinsically less worthwhile than really quite a lot of renowned

politicians on this list but I suppose this is all relative. It

would be very much better to ram down on the subject of honours

instead of rounding up. Instead of saying give it to the stylist, the

show found all of the people you couldn't pick out of a line-up, I

would challenge people to identify will struggle to pick one example

entirely at random. Why give any price. You could pick from a line

of? I could but I don't think that qualifies you for a gong. There are

four Cabinet ministers have fun night head and this is an epidemic

at Westminster. When the Speaker calls out the MPs, service and said

that, it is like King Arthur 's round table with so many nights and

his nondescript MPs who have achieved very little frankly, they

have been loyal but the idea... Could that be the least you aim for?

Hard-working loyalty seems like the very least you could do. It seems to

me like the low bar. The interesting thing is if it will all go ahead and

Theresa May has been keen to separate herself from much of the

legacy of David Cameron so we will see how many of these 14 names

eventually emerge. The guardian and furious as Donald Trump insults a

Muslim family. He said the candidate is a black soul unfit lead so tell

us about this. This is Mr Khan and his wife who feel understandably

insulted, ... I'm not sure she feels it she might objectively be it. We

have been waiting for the moments when the irresistible force and

immovable force coincided and this is perhaps the moments when Donald

Trump's complete incapacity to communicate with people in a basic

courteous way suddenly coincides with America's considerable

deferments to its veterans and in this instance to the parents of a

soldier who was killed in an especially heroic act. As if they

could be a more heroic die Lee Mack Way to die, this is a man who went

ahead of his own soldiers and died protecting them. And Donald Trump

unable to see that perhaps it would be a better idea to keep his big

mouth shut shall we say, suggested that because this man's mother

didn't speak at the Democratic convention that it was probably some

sort of religious... Because she's Muslim she stood behind her husband

and let him talk... It didn't seem to have occurred to him or anybody

in his PR department that perhaps a bereaved mother might not be able to

talk would be on an account of grief rather than religious and it might

look crass. Also check your facts. Why start now. You wonder if this is

what will be damaging. There is no realistic hope there, everything

else has bounced off and last week he apparently was urging Russia to

join in hacking an American citizen, Hillary Clinton. His voters hate her

so I don't think they would care that they might Yaya Toure but

that's a national security issue. Ordinarily any suggestion that

President cannot trust national security would be the end of his

campaign. I'm not sure however distasteful this is it would be any

different. If he were to be elected then surely this rhetoric would

stop, the day after when he woke up and thoughts right this is it, he

has to be confirmed soon the next day but wouldn't it dawned upon him

that we would see a change in his attitudes? I was reading about a

lady called Mohammed on the way an and she is a fencing competitor in

the Olympics, she is an American and is a Muslim woman with a hijab, she

has a good chance of winning a medal and if she could she would be

honoured with the stars Stripes, it would be one in the eye for

Donald Trump like when Jesse Owens won all of those gold medals in

front of Hitler, not that I would compare Donald Trump to Adolf

Hitler. One in the eye was something alike. Good background knowledge,

nice reading around the subject. It would be great if she could win an

Trump would have to salute her. Staying with the Guardian, the AIDS

death toll may soar again, why is this? In Africa we are talking.

We're talking in the developing world, this is a story because, I

was not aware of this, but the US set a target for the end of aids

which has been endorsed by lots of governments, Barack Obama said he

thought the end was in sight but it seems like this may have been

misplaced. There is no figure here for how many future aids death there

maybe, 1.5 million a year, it daughter could soar again that

nothing definitive. The story is saying that the hope is clearly

there until recently that AIDS was on the decline might have been

misplaced and will continue at such a high toll or even higher. Can we

explain why? A couple of problems to distil a short answer. Not least

that the drugs they have been using to treat HIV and AIDS complications

in Africa, people developing a resistance so 1 million people die

from HIV infections in Africa and 2.1 million people were infected

last year, new people. And so it is hard to see those numbers staying

low. Unless they find new drugs. It will stay catastrophically high is

what I should say. Let us look at three different takes of the real

Olympics. Five days' time. Here it is in the Telegraph. -- Rio. Alysia

Black who is a British Olympic diver but the story as Russians may be

expelled from Rio hours before the start. The IOC handed over

responsibility for the Russian athletes to the individual sports

governing bodies and now they have had a rethink? The IOC has not

covered itself in what should we say administrative glory I would say.

Understatedly. Thus having said we have this report which are just a

state-sponsored doping has been going on through Russia over several

games, and we are going to have the renominate medals from London, and

from Athens and Beijing and this is all a disaster and then going well

don't worry everybody, you just cheesy you would like to come, don't

smite us over here at the Olympics. Did we say the Olympics was in a few

days, don't worry about us. And now suddenly they noticed up perhaps

people are a bit grouchy about it and it looks a bit bad that the one

person you'd definitely bad was the whistle-blower and then everyone

else is open to negotiations. They have made such a terrible mess of

this, I know we say that for every Olympics and London included and it

is and administrative disaster and the games are glorious and we forget

what a shambles it is that this looks pretty bad even by the

standards of the IOC. The FT in a different direction saying protests

in Brazil. These Olympics are costing less than other games. A lot

less. What this story says is that with the backlash in Rio against the

cost disruption, there is a shorter list of cities that wish to bid to

win the Olympics and I know hamburger and some other place --

Hamburg and other places, in the future of Western democracies people

will not put up the cost of disruption, they will end up in

places like Russia and they had an unbelievable bill of $50 billion for

the Winter Olympics but Putin's was able to do it and no one could

protest. A larger version of the Eurovision Song contest, some

countries dread winning because exactly very expensive to stage it

and this is many more times the cost. Father Ted, remember when they

enter a bad song because they can't afford to host it again, eventually

that will happen with the Olympics that people will have to send them

east Didsbury primary sport state team and then say no we are terrible

at sports. I think they will be expect actual, I'm sorry East

Didsbury, I feel bad for that example. They are going to triumph

with God medals across the board. There is no legacy, were not

promising anything for the youth because it is or is about the

legacy. And the Lexi never sees a manifestation which is -- and the

legacy never sees manifestation. These Olympics are costing a third

of the London games and as much as we loved the games, we can't pretend

that they had a huge long-term impact. Finally a picture story,

here it is again. Rolling down to Rio and the Independent and a

performer from the city 's favelas performing for his role in the

opening ceremony. I wouldn't be surprised if that is an example of

cap wearer. An amazing photo, not just the extraordinary gym ability

but the background as well. I hope this person is delighted about the

Olympics because lots of people in the favelas said not because they

are the people who have been most disruptive, moved or had barricaded

the tub so heaven forbid visitors will learn there are lots of poor

people in Rio de Janeiro. Hope it goes well though. So much hope in

it. That's it for the sour but of course because it is a Sunday night

we are back at half 11 for another look, coming up next it is headlined

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