18/08/2016 The Papers

A warm welcome to our look at head at what will be in the newspapers

political commentator for the political commentator for the

Financial Times, Miranda Green, and education editor for the Sunday

Times. Thank you for being with us. Let us show you what we have of the

newspaper so far. The FT pleads with that dramatic picture of the

five-year-old Syrian boy, Omran Daqneesh, whose image has provoked

outrage around the world, at the latest bombing in Aleppo. The Times

has the same image of the young boy in the back of the ambulance

following that air strike in Aleppo. The gaijin leads with the same

picture. The newspaper describes it as a new symbol of the horror in

Syria. The Express front page says the militantly -- the Metro has the

lonely brothers celebrating their gold and silver Olympic medals --

the Brownlee Bros. The Telegraph praises the Brownlee

Bros for their historic success. The Mail also celebrates them with a

call for Sir Matthew Pinsent to have a Victor Vito parade for Team GB's

Olympic heroes. -- a effectively police. As a victory parade make

get them so why not Team GB? There get them so why not Team GB? There

would be a lot of them on the bus because so many have won medals. A

convoy. Let us start off more sombrely with The Guardian, they

have got that dramatic picture. It is a testament of the power of the

single image, to suddenly stop everybody in their tracks and remind

them what horror is going on in Syria. It is. It is a heartbreaking

image. This little boy. People say he is five but he looks younger than

that. He looks bewildered. Probably in shock. Completely alone, sitting

on the seat in the ambulance. There is a moment in the video where he

puts his hand up, feels the blood. It has gone viral around the world.

It could make a difference just like the image of the little boy washed

up on the beach in Turkey, the other little Syrian boy. That actually

prompted Angela Merkel to open German borders to refugees. And I

think the image of this little boy, there will be an outpouring of

sympathy. It is strange because this conflict is going on every day. I am

sure there are children like this in this situation every day and we do

not think about it. The awful thing is that this must be the first time

that Syria has properly been on all the front pages for quite a while

and given that this is a huge conflict, this deal of the numbers

of people who have died, the numbers who have been displaced, it is such

that it should be the number one story most of the time but because

there is no international plan, there is no international plan,

because nobody knows how to resolve it, there is this awful sense that

it has been pushed to the back of everyone's mind even though it is

going on all the time. The interesting thing about The Guardian

front page, as they have run a long interview with the Aleppo -based

Syrian journalist who took the footage that has gone viral. He says

this child is no representative of the millions of children in Syria.

That is the point. Every day children are being bombed out of the

homes anti-presents all of them. The video clip is almost unwatchable, it

is so upsetting. This is the power is so upsetting. This is the power

of the newspaper and the front page and the big dramatic picture on the

front page. Let us move on. The Financial Times

has got the same picture on their front page. Child of war is the

headline. The lead story is interesting, a post Brexit story

about what kind of Brexit it is going to be. Theresa May said Brexit

means Brexit. What does Brexit mean? We still do not really know. This

story seems to be suggesting that the city is abandoning the hope that

they will have complete access to the EU single market, and there seem

to be alternative plans being put forward. What seems to be emerging

as a model which has been cold Swiss plus, which might give us access

along the lines that Switzerland enjoys at the moment. Which is just

short of the Norwegian model, and that is part of the single market,

even though not in the EU, but then they have to accept three movement

of people. That is the crucial point. In this story it sees that

they now think the Norwegian model is politically unacceptable, so this

idea that pro-Europeans have been clinging onto since the night of the

referendum results, that there may be some way off still maintaining

freedom of movement in exchange for access to the single market, it

looks as if the City of London consensus is that that idea is dead

because it is not politically saleable. This is an interesting

story because they are proposing something that they called Swiss

plus, but they also say they do not want it to be branded Swiss plus. So

they are going to propose it, but they do not want it called Swiss

plus honour because in Brussels there is some unhappiness at what

the Swiss position is. This idea of negotiating for your favoured

sectors without having obligations of EU membership is becoming

controversial in itself. Let us talk about economic performance of this

UK economy post Brexit because The Express has got a story, following

the jobs figures of yesterday, saying retail sales bonanza defies

the fears that there will be an economic slowdown post Brexit. This

story is interesting. It's easy retail sales grew last month by 1.4%

compared with June which is above economists average forecasts. It

looks as though people are going on a post-referendum shopping spree.

There are all these amazing seals still online and I am finding it

hard to keep my credit card in my bag. One of the things that they are

seeing, the feel-good factor from the Olympics is spreading people on

to buy, but there is a big question about House prices, whether they

will go up or down, whether people will buy houses. That is more

worrying. Also, the feel-good factor created by the Olympics puzzles me.

Why does that make you go shopping? Are people rushing out to buy

trainers? Maybe they are. By gold medal? Buy a tennis court. Let us

talk about the A-level results which today. Relief or trauma for A-level

students around the country, but as education editor, talk to us. In

some ways, more people going to university, it is costing more and

more to go there, but I guess people are starting to wonder is it worth

the money, because they are racking up potentially such large bills, is

it worth it? This story is saying that record numbers of students

yesterday secured university places. And that is the big question. Is it

worth going to university? We have some of the most expensive fees in

the world, ?9,000 per year just for teaching and that is going up in

some universities next year. People are coming out with average debts of

?45,000, ?50,000. Nearly half of all 18-year-olds are now getting degrees

after three years. Where are the after three years. Where are the

jobs? Where are the jobs that they can pay off these debts? I am

beginning to seriously question this entire idea that if you get an

English degree or a history degree from a second-rate university that

that is a sensible way to spend three years of your life and ?50,000

of your money. Are they not the best three years of your life? I do not

agree. If you look at the analysis that the Institute for Fiscal

Studies have done, earnings value across your life of having a degree

is holding up. If people start to ask these questions about whether

particular degrees are worth it or not that is quite healthy because

all degrees are not the same. If we all degrees are not the same. If we

have a situation where people ask more questions before they embark on

a degree course that is a good thing. Since there are no other

alternatives, high-quality apprenticeships, it would be good if

we had more young people in the UK go down that route because that is

what the economy really needs. The other side of it is the quality of

teaching or not and whether that is worth the money. That is right.

Miranda is right. Universities need to be more transparent about what

students are actually getting for the money that the RPM. What are the

chances of getting a job of a particular greed and why don't they

publish more details about that? How many hours of teaching per week? If

you are just getting two hours of teaching per week, he matches this

costing? Universities have to step up their game. We heard the higher

education Minister saying that universities that do not improve

quality of teaching will not be allowed to raise their fees. I do

happen in a big week but it would be happen in a big week but it would be

Olympics. It is a great story. We Olympics. It is a great story. We

were watching it in the newsroom this afternoon when Alistair

Brownlee and Jonathan Brownlee got Brownlee and Jonathan Brownlee got

first and second in the triathlon. It is a good headline in the Metro.

It is. Every system or headline. One of the things that has been a nice

about this week of the Olympics, and I suppose last week with the diving,

these jewels are really quite heart-warming.

-- these duos are quite heart-warming. Even though I am not

a sports fan I am finding it deletes. Contrast that with the

strange story of the American Olympic swimmers who are accused of

inventing a story that they were robbed at a petrol station. It is

very strange. It is a very confusing story. I cannot get to the bottom of

it. There seems to be two conflicting accounts. On the one

hand you have American swimmers saying that men jest in police

uniforms robbed them of their wallets in the early hours of Sunday

and one even pointed a gun. And then the police said one or more of the

swimmers had vandalised a petrol station and got into an altercation

with a security guard. I do not quite know. And could face charges.

It could be serious because giving false testimony can land you in a

Brazilian jail for up to three years. Blame it on Rio I think was

the fleas. I have had a couple of good night out in Rio. It is a great

city. Tell us more. Maybe later. Thank you for being with us. We will

be back at quarter past 11 with another look at the newspapers but

before that he is that weather prospects.