10/09/2016 The Papers

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

With me are the political commentator Jo Phillips

and the Sunday Mirror's political editor, Nigel Nelson.

Let's have a look at some of the front pages before we discuss them

in detail. The Observer leads with a warning

about the health of the NHS - top bosses saying it's

on the brink of collapse. Meanwhile, British

traditions are under threat A government review will point

the finger at growing ethnic Own your own home for ?900

because of the Help to Buy scheme - that's the main headline

on the Sunday Express. The Sunday Mirror continues

its reports of claims Last week, Mr Vaz referred

the allegations to his solicitors. Plans for new grammar schools

are being drawn up by councils following yesterday's announcement

by the Prime Minister - that's the front page

of the Sunday Times. While the Independent

dedicates its front page The ceasefire is due to come

into effect on Monday. So, shall we start with the Sunday

Times? The councils opening new grammar schools offering thousands

of places. It is almost as if they saw it coming. These are five

councils where there is already selective education. This is not

surprising that some councils. This, I think, will prove to be a missed

fort and miss timed move by Theresa May. She, like I, are grammar goals

but there is a great danger that we look back at those of us who

benefited many years ago with a nostalgia that is not appropriate

for schools today. What is wrong with grammar schools? There is

nothing wrong with them. It is how you get into them. Yes, the

selection process. It is increasingly hard to get into them.

All children should have access to good schools and good teachers, it

should not depend on where you live and whether or not you can afford

tutoring. It is about social mobility. Yes. And there has always

been a divide between grammar school kids and the others. There was

always the thing that the rich kids went to private schools and

everybody else went to the second very model. Things have changed

since then. It is not just the social scene, is it? Schools in the

deprived areas do not always have good education. And there are people

like me who go to pieces in the exam hall. I am not against the idea of

grammar schools but what I am against is the fact that they have

announced this without consideration. So Theresa May has

come up with an idea that selection is not merely at 11, it can also be

at 13 or 16, I do not think that is appropriate either. If there could

in assessment process that was continual that would decide which

schools would benefit from which children, that would be different.

She needs a detailed plan about how this may work. At the moment it does

not seem as if she could get it through the two houses, certainly

the house of of Lords. Many comprehensive schools rise to the

challenge, don't they? If there is a grammar school down the road, the

comprehensive really goes for it. There is no reason it cannot work

but we don't know how it will work. She has bounced into it, we feel,

because there was a leak earlier in the week. I imagine what she planned

to do was to use party conferencing in a couple of weeks time and then

float the idea without having to go into too much detail. Suddenly now

she needs to put flesh on this idea. Like you say, even as a modern high

schools raise their grades, private schools expect a huge boost because

if there will be more grammar schools, there will be a process of

those who can afford it... It does not do anything for social mobility

today. It may have done 20 or 30 years ago. I think or intention is

very clear and she has launched a scathing attack on public schools

which is another knife in the back to the old It -- eaten attendees.

This has come from the NHS chiefs. Yes, it comes from providers and

they speak for hospital trust and chief executives. It is a familiar

litany now that they are running out of money and cannot meet targets

without some major influx of cash in the Autumn statement. It does seem

that we are getting to a point where we are going to have to start really

thinking about radical solutions for the NHS because we really can't

afford to keep it going. So either we will need to pay an awful lot

more in tax for it, it is clear that the amount of money that is being

put in is not enough so either through taxation or the idea of

charging for certain services. I was interviewing a hospital on BBC radio

the other week that had started crowd funding. Just to raise funds.

It would not matter how much money you poured into the NHS because

there will be demand, the demand is insatiable. In a way it goes back to

the grammar school thing, if you tackle something, schools are not

the big issue. The NHS is and always is as we approach winter. The

expectations of people is that they will be seen by a doctor, referred

to a specialist and will walk out of the doctor surgery with a

prescription and if they want an ambulance they will get one. We

actually have, somebody, somewhere, some politician has to be brave

enough to tackle that. Tackle our perceptions? I think it is more our

sentimentality about it. The problem about discussing it with

politicians, they recognise that there are certain things that must

be done we do not go out there and say it because the moment a

politician says anything about the yen hate S, the community

misconstrue sit as an attack and they are dead in the water. And

there is something strange about the British character... We are in love

with the NHS. We are quite protective of it. The idea that it

cannot change be it cannot use what is a 1948 model for a 20th -- 21st

century servers. Steady on, steady on. Serious crime set to join the

list of other hate crimes. This is misogyny in England and Laos. This

is Nottingham where they have been trialling using misogyny under the

definition of a hate crime. They have been doing an experiment there,

police in Notting ham, they have had 20 investigations in two mums,

investigating a case of misogyny every three days. They have

specially trained officers targeting behaviour from unwanted physical

approaches through the street harassment, and other forces are now

looking at this. What we do not know is whether the investigations have

led to any prosecutions or whether somebody has been told to behave

better or where it is actually going. There are two things here.

Many people listening to this and thinking well, there are other

things that the police could be dealing with. There are also people

on the other side which is more nuanced, which is where women,

affected by misogyny, they feel more able to go to the police and that

they are complaints will be taken seriously. And now that the BBC is

talking about it, they will know that possible. The problem is that

it was initially successful in Notting ham and other forces are

looking for it. But what is the criteria for success? Hate crimes

reported to them when it comes to women but is the same thing happened

in disabled hate crime came in. I have some figures I was looking at

this week that says disabled hate crime has gone up 40% in the last

year. What does that mean? Does that mean that people hate disabled

people more than they did the previous year or that police at

catching more haters? Or that people are reporting it more. But what is

the criteria for these crimes? We will find out, won't we. Let's move

on to the Independent. This will be a big story. We can be forgiven for

not feeling that this is a turning point, that is the question that the

Independent asks when it comes to the ceasefire in Syria. The whole

thing is that we do not know until it starts on Monday. He reported

that more than 100 people have been killed today, and this has happened

before. A wall becomes more deadly, I am told, in the hours before a

ceasefire. Yes, the final spasms of somebody tries to grab more

Territorian before the ceasefire begins. The idea of the Russians and

the Americans coming together, that could reduce the violence. The

problem is whether it works out. At the moment, the South feels more

say. As far as the Americans are concerned that aside and not stay

there, he must go. The Russians and the Americans need to agree about

what happens to a side. It is an interesting deal, part rivals, and

part allies. Russia are close Assad. It will put pressure on the

Americans to use their pressure on Turkey and Saudi Arabia. We call it

a coalition... Hull it is not. It is but it is not. It is a group of

countries. There are so many factions here. What is happening in

Syria is an absolute microcosm of everything in the Middle East with

so many things. And the knock-on to the neighbouring countries and

tribes, be it Kurdish, Sony or Shi'ite Muslims, the most important

thing is that if there is a ceasefire then humanitarian aid can

get through. Quickly, we only have 40 seconds, let's squeeze in the

Sunday Telegraph. Political correctness eating a threat to

Christmas. This is an annual story, isn't it? It is a little different.

The headline overdoes it but the head of integration has come out

with a report on to how integration should work. She says how could

anybody object to calling a Christmas tree a Christmas tree. It

was political correctness. She wants us to look at the issue of

integration and basically, no-one could take offence at the phrase

Christmas tree so let's try to be more sensible. And it was a

year-long study. Excellent salary will run again next Christmas. Thank

you for taking a through the papers and thank you to you for joining us.

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