21/08/2016 The Papers

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

With me are the Daily Telegraph media commentator Neil Midgley

and columnist at the London Evening Standard Rosamund Urwin.

Tomorrow's front pages? The Metro leads on Team GB's heroes

who achieved the country's best ever overseas Games in Rio -

claiming the country is now an 'Olympic Superpower'.

The Guardian bids a fond farewell to Rio after 17 days

Its main story accuses the NHS in England of a 'disgraceful' lack

of diversity with white men in the majority of top jobs.

Mo Farah's joyful leap is pictured in the Mail with speculation that

many of Team GB's sporting stars will be rewarded

Britain Will Keep Booming says the Express -

coupled with a positive story about the post Brexit economy.

In contrast - a sharp fall in spending on big

The paper says new Prime Minister Theresa May is not acting

quickly enough to rebuild the economy following Brexit.

Good evening. Where are we starting? With the Metro. That fantastic

picture montage of our Great British Olympians. It is a double page

spread, a wraparound, the actual front page, I have to say, has a

preponderance of male faces. Poor old Nicola Adams is the only woman.

There is another. The female achievements at these Olympics have

been brilliant. Laura Trott is there. And the woman's hockey team,

where they pool that victory from one Friday night... Nobody knows!

And the flagbearer tonight. What did you think? It has been a fantastic

two weeks, I always like watching the sports you know nothing about

and for me, Jade Jones is here, she won the gold medal in tae kwon do

and I do not understand that sport but she is phenomenal to watch. Just

delightful. And she admits that after 2012, she really did struggle

a little bit for that first year with formal, suddenly being in the

spotlight and then to go back and knuckle down and work so hard and

come back and win, I think that is phenomenal and I really enjoyed Joe

Clarke, in the kayak, the canoe slalom, that is fascinating to

watch! I don't understand that but they are brilliant! And Britain are

global power in gymnastics! Nobody would have thought, for a while Max

Whitlock was the highest scoring non-American athlete at the Olympic

Games until Usain Bolt started running and for him... While BBC One

was broadcasting Countryfile! And he was winning his first gold medal!

The coverage has not moved over from BBC Two at that point last Sunday

night! And obviously, Amy Tinkler? The 16-year-old winning bronze on

the floor. And she will be fantastic to watch in four years. Such talent

coming through the ranks. If you look at Andy Murray, brilliant and

he defended his gold and more power to him but we don't have that bench

in tennis whereas on the other sports like gymnastics and something

and ruling, we have a lot of talent coming through. Did you catch the

boxing? Some very unhappy people with that result? I did watch it. I

don't understand why people want to punch each other as a sport! I did

watch that through my hands and, to me, as a complete non-boxing expert,

our boy did seem to land more punches than the other fellow. I am

very much looking forward to the closing ceremony. The shoes will be

lit up, Team GB, their shoes. OK, it is great news, second, there is the

record they have matched? Since 1908. The last time they were at the

top, London 1908. The highest medal tally in terms of sheer number of

medals, having eclipsed London 2012 and beating the Chinese, which

nobody would ever have expected, least of all the Chinese and I'm

sure there will be some very high-level discussions in Beijing

about how they can regain that crime. Good news according to the

daily express foreigners in Britain. More good news! Yes, the Brexit

supporting daily Express says that despite Brexit, Britain will keep

booming! How do we know this? There was a survey allegedly of the

financial industry issued tonight indicating that bosses are broadly

competent and weathering the post Brexit storm and that is all there

is on the front page. No detail or any figures who was involved in

this. Obviously, there are conflicting indicators coming out at

the moment, the jobless figures and retail sales were pretty good and

there is a story on the front page of the FT tonight saying

infrastructure contracts are down by 23% in July. Year-on-year. So

clearly it is still too early to tell. We will not have a clear

picture until we get the ONS figures, which are coming out in

October. Quite a long way. And August is not necessarily the

greatest time to make these judgments either. It is really

encouraging that jobless figures did not go through the roof and retail

sales did not go through the floor at the same time. You would expect

heads of companies to put a positive spin on things because they do not

really want to talk down and lower morale? Quite, you do not want to

knock confidence when your business relies on consumer confidence, you

would expect them to talk this up a little bit but I think this is the

express with its own agenda and I might be inclined to read that story

in the FT and put more emphasis on that. We will hopefully get that for

the next paper. At 11:30pm. Meanwhile, the Guardian, we have two

stories from the front page. Which is the first one? The lead is

talking about the people at the top of the NHS, those running the NHS

Trusts and they say how appalling the lack of diversity there is,

coming from a Freedom of Information request that it has done. All about

how people, despite a big diversity drive and the NHS has a diverse

workforce lower down, absolutely, a huge number of languages spoken, but

at the top it is not. The point is that people are appointing in their

own image and it is run by white men and that has been perpetuated,

despite an attempt to change that. You can see that this, these are

people making the spending decisions and that means that you really have

to think this is somewhere we do need diversity. It seems even more

important than all the other things. I do a lot of work on getting more

women running FTSE 100 companies, more diversity that way, but there

seems even more important to me. Only 2% of NHS Trusts are chaired by

people from a black or ethnic minority background compared to 12%

of the population at large. This could be said of most companies, to

be honest. The BBC has the same criticism. I read stories like this

and I think, well, OK, show me the solution? The BBC is ?4 billion

every year, the NHS is ?130 billion. You can have a short list that has

to include a diverse range of candidates, that is not forcing them

to appoint them but at least say there is this candidate and put the

name forward rather than just having people thinking, maybe I play golf

with him whatever it is, we cannot have those things still having some

effect. More people thinking he is a lot like me, when it comes to

interviews. Some employers are recruiting with skills interview

conducted by people from high up the company and then the values

interview by peers at the same level as the position to be appointed,

which does not necessarily go to the colour of the person's skin or

gender. Do you both believe in short lists? I think it helps. What

happens at the moment is we hear these phrases and platitudes rolled

out, we must get more diversity, and the obvious steps that you can take

to make more of change, they do not happen. OK. Final story... I will

quickly glanced down. Where is this? What is this about? Students,

illegible ink leaves GCSE markers feeling blue. People who mark GCSEs

apparently do not get walloping great envelopes full of papers by

secure delivery. All other papers are scanned into an and they get a

PDF. If you are a student and you have written your GCSE answers in

light green or light blue ink, then the marker cannot necessarily

decipher them and they cannot turn the PDF towards the light, as they

could with paper. It does say on the front, big letters, right in black

ink! And you would hope that teachers would tell the students

that. That is fundamental. You will be failed instantly for not reading

the instructions! And they give out pens! Just give out black pens! GCSE

results, Thursday? Yes. Thank you, Neil Midgley

and Rosamund Urwin -- you'll both be back at 11.30pm

for another look at the stories