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fights. That is all the sport. In the cricket, India are 174-5 and on | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
BBC News Gavin Esler has The Papers. Welcome to our view of the Sunday | :00:00. | :00:29. | |
papers. With me I Josie Delap, home affairs correspondent for The | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
Economist, and Dave Wooding, political editor for The Sun on | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
Sunday. The Dell Castro is on front page of the Sunday Times, saying he | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
was the scourge of the west. Fidel Castro is also on the front | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
page of The Observer saying The Sunday Mirror has an interview | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
with another alleged abuse victim of the former football | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
coach Barry Bennell. The Mail On Sunday claims police | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
were warned by their own expert that allegations of child abuse | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
against the former Prime Minister Ted Heath shouldn't | :00:57. | :00:58. | |
be taken seriously. Theresa May will announce | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
a crackdown on executive pay this week, an approach previously | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
advocated by Ed Miliband. And The Sun On Sunday says | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
Princess Beatrice cut Ed Sheeran's face with a sword while | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
attempting to knight And The Sun On Sunday says | :01:11. | :01:12. | |
Princess Beatrice cut Ed Sheeran's That is a cracking headline. I'm | :01:13. | :01:20. | |
sorry. I must take that more seriously! We will get to that in | :01:21. | :01:28. | |
the end. Let's begin with Castro, or Fidel, depending on how you view | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
him. There are a different takes on all of the newspapers. Grief and | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
some celebration in the Observer, but they have pieces talking about | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
the revolutionary leader. And the Sunday Times says he is the scourge | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
of the west and has pieces saying he is a monster, which pretty much sums | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
it up. Absolutely. The coverage reflects the contrast in statements | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
we have had from different leaders. Jeremy Corbyn, Donald Trump, Barack | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
Obama, responding to this figure, depending however you judge him, he | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
was a giant of the 20th century. You can't deny the fact that he was a | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
leader that everyone will remember. Whether you see him as a scourge, | :02:06. | :02:12. | |
revolutionary, a monster as some people describe him, that will vary | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
enormously. Some of the left have come out today saying he did a lot | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
to improve health care and education, but don't forget he took | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
the world to the brink of World War when he invited Khruschev, the then | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
Soviet leader, to make a pre-emptive strike on the USA. When he took over | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
in 1959, there were about 500 to 600 executions. Thousands of people fled | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
Cuba. In the 1980s, around 1984 or 1985, there were all these Cubans | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
who had fled to Florida, and it was something like we have seen | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
recently, the migration crisis from North Africa to Europe. I was really | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
struck by the coverage and the tone yesterday. I spoke to a lot of | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
people about him as well and broadly on the left, there is the | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
idealisation of this romantic hero, very good-looking guy, all very sexy | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
and so on. Very much downplaying the very serious abuses that took place | :03:09. | :03:20. | |
in Cuba. And on the right, you have the idea that he is a complete | :03:21. | :03:22. | |
monster, from people and organisations who tended to support | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
Bina J in Chile, and in Nicaragua, and Bautista in Cuba himself. -- | :03:26. | :03:35. | |
Pinochet will. I think most people will see it less black and white. | :03:36. | :03:43. | |
Absolutely. He bought Cuba its liberation but at the cost of its | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
liberty. He did provide health care and education in a way that we | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
hadn't seen. Much better than other places in Latin America and the | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
United States, you might say. But poverty. Yes, a controlled economy | :03:58. | :04:05. | |
that didn't work for the people of Cuba, and phenomenal human rights | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
abuses. To paint him as a hero or a villain, that doesn't really capture | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
the kind of person and leader that he was. We can agree that he was a | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
massive figure. This is a tiny island, quite unobscured place in | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
the past. He put it on the map. Maybe not for the best reasons. I | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
think what you say about the tribal politics element of this, people on | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
the right hero worship, turning a blind eye to the bad things they do, | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
and the same happens with people on the left. What I found interesting | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
here with the assassination attempts. 638! And the CIA came up | :04:41. | :04:48. | |
with some fantastic ruses, exploding cigars. Poisoned milkshakes! They | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
were going to poison his diving gear, hoping his beard would fall | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
out. They made an oyster shell for the bottom of the sea when he went | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
scuba-diving with some toxins in to kill him and failed every time. | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
There is a great quote in the Observer, looking at the | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
disproportionate effect he had. A US diplomat a few years ago. Cuba seems | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
to have the same effect on American administrations that a full moon has | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
on a werewolf. That extraordinary level of frustration and I think | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
anger and embarrassment for America, of having so close this resolutely | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
Communist, Revolutionary regime, which did not respond to the | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
sanctions that America imposed on it for decades, and he just held in | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
there. That is a good point. When Obama changed things, and he clearly | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
did, he pointed out that we have been doing the same thing for 50 | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
years and it hasn't worked, which is a statement of the blindingly | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
obvious. And the question now is what Donald Trump will do when he | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
takes office in January. He was very critical of President Obama | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
'soverjoyed to Cuba and his relaxing of the restrictions on Cuba. -- | :06:00. | :06:09. | |
overtures. But without the figure of Castro, he will feel a bit more open | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
to that relationship. And he won Florida. A remarkable coincidence | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
given the Cuban-Americans who hate Castro. Let's move on because there | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
are some interesting domestic stories. The Telegraph. Theresa May | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
carries on Labour's business pay crackdown. This goes to the heart of | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
another big theme in politics. Theresa May in business and how well | :06:35. | :06:36. | |
she is getting on with other business leaders. This reminds me of | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
something Ed Miliband was talking about in the last election only a | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
year ago, putting curbs on fat cat pay, as we like to call it in the | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
red top media. This has been reawakened by the scandal involving | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
Sir Philip Green and the closure of BHS and the pensions crisis there. | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
What Theresa May is saying actually is that she wants to put workers | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
almost in control, giving them a say in the pay packages of senior | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
executives. And much more transparency about what goes on. I | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
wonder whether some die-hard Conservatives in the party will see | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
this as stifling aspiration that is anti-business, which is what the | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
Conservative Party wants it to be, and on the other hand it is really | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
addressing a problem which Mrs May wants to do, building a Britain that | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
works for everyone. We keep hearing that phrase. Is she using socialism? | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
I think this probably is socialism. The Germans do something very | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
similar and that is across the board, including very right wing | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
parties like Angela Merkel. It brings a degree of harmony, people | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
say, to boardrooms, if you have that. Ride. I think the real problem | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
with this kind of policy is that one of the questions will be the extent | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
to which it has an impact on working people and their salaries and the | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
extent to which this is more about her showing himself to be on the | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
side of the JAMs, the people she was talking about in the run up to the | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
Autumn Statement. Her relationship with big business is convicted at | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
the moment because they have different positions on Brexit and | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
what kind Brexit Britain should pursue, and big businesses are not | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
keen on the hard Brexit they are leaning towards. But at the heart of | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
this, I forget the most recent figures, but basically if you look | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
at average pay and what the CEO earned in the 60s it was a multiple | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
of 30 or 40 and now it is several hundred times, and people are asking | :08:41. | :08:42. | |
whether TV executives are any better now than 30 years ago. Better paid! | :08:43. | :08:50. | |
-- chief executives. Absolutely and this is a poisonous idea that has | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
started to emerge after the financial crisis, when people | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
started to focus on pay. Forcing companies to publish the gap between | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
executive pay and the average pay of ordinary workers, with more | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
transparency. I think a lot of it is awareness. They get to the top, like | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
politicians are out of touch, they earn huge salaries and they forget, | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
they are unaware of what ordinary people think like and how it is seen | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
by ordinary people. Work is having a little moment to intervene might | :09:24. | :09:31. | |
make them think twice. -- workers having a moment. I liked this story | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
in The Times, which isn't surprising, also about Mrs May. The | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
Brexit challenge keeps her awake at night. Really! You would hope that | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
it would! The extraordinary complexities of Britain leaving the | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
EU, I am not surprised. I am surprised that she sleeps at all. | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
Maybe she doesn't? Indeed. It would be one thing if the Conservatives in | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
the government had unified approach about what they wanted from Brexit | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
and how they want Britain to leave the EU. You idealist! Even then it | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
would be an extraordinary conduct a difficult thing that would take | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
years. But to be trying to do this when even she has not quite worked | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
out exactly in what manner Britain should be leaving the EU is frankly | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
an impossible task. This also plays into something that many people | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
would think of as one of her strengths. She is known to be a hard | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
worker. He is known to do the work, and you know better than I, not | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
every politician actually does the work necessary. She spends a lot of | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
time... She is a serious player. She doesn't spend much time briefing the | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
media, giving interviews. She is probably a serious politician for | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
serious times. What I quite like in this is the fluffy stuff. The | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
leather trousers! That immediately got your attention. What is | :10:55. | :11:01. | |
fascinating about Theresa May, and I have known her for 18 years and I | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
have had many conversations with her, and you never feel like you | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
have got to know her very well. She is a deeply private person. I did an | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
interview with her in October, and this interview in the Sunday Times | :11:15. | :11:16. | |
Magazine seems to scratch the surface a bit more, a bit more about | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
her. Philip chooses all her clothes. He goes out and help her pick her | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
clothes. There was a lovely vignette in there. Her first wedding selfie. | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
She was near a wedding and somebody saw her and said, Prime Minister, | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
will you join the wedding party for a few minutes? And she went and | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
posed for video with the bride and groom and made a mini speech. Little | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
bits of her personality are coming out and that will do her good | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
because we don't really know her. That's true. Another thing this | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
points to is another trait of hers which people talk about, which she | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
is not terribly good at delegating. She likes to keep an eye on | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
everything that is going on, and there is a sense of her being in | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
control of everything. And when you are dealing with a task as mammoth | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
as Brexit, that isn't possible. When you are dealing with a Cabinet when | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
there are many opinions, delegating may not be best! | :12:15. | :12:31. | |
I also like this story in The Times. Bosses told to bring back Christmas. | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
In a week when we have been told that living standards have not gone | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
up for a decade, we could do with some Christmas cheer. We are being | :12:39. | :12:40. | |
told not to be killjoys about Christmas and don't worry about | :12:41. | :12:42. | |
offending other faiths. Most people I know who are Muslim or Jewish, | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
they are very happy to celebrate Christmas and they do it in a | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
different way but that is fine. This story comes back every year. There | :12:49. | :12:50. | |
is always somebody trying to stop you saying happy Christmas and to | :12:51. | :12:52. | |
say seasons greetings, or something like that. We are told that | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
Christmas is slipping away from its original meaning. And I think | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
probably, as you say, most people are happy to go along with it. It | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
has to be people who are not Christians who do this, make a big | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
fuss about it. It seems to be very sensitive people of a Christian | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
background who are worried about offending people. I think diversity | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
is probably affecting some politically correct people too much | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
and they think they should bend over backwards and not offend people. The | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
truth is that people of other faiths are not offended. If I go to India, | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
I will celebrate a Farley with everybody else and have a jolly good | :13:28. | :13:37. | |
time. -- Diwali. I think people are secure enough in their own faiths | :13:38. | :13:44. | |
and opinions. It is the first Sunday in advert, so we are off to a good | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
start. Three cheers for Christmas! Now The Sun on Sunday. Great | :13:50. | :13:58. | |
headline. Royal Ed banger. Beatrice cuts Ed Sheeran's face with a sword | :13:59. | :14:05. | |
as she tries tonight James Blunt. Which one is the gaffe? It is a | :14:06. | :14:12. | |
great story. Ed Sheeran has been on social media with this little gash, | :14:13. | :14:19. | |
and they said he fell over drunk, but it was basically a mock | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
knighthood ceremony verging on execution! Princess Beatrice, Prince | :14:23. | :14:30. | |
Andrew's daughter, she was in the world large with Ed Sheeran and | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
James Blunt, the other celebrity. -- in the royal lodge. And James Blunt | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
said he would like to be so James Blunt, Ana Beatriz said she could | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
sort out, grabbed the ceremonial sword, and tapped him on the | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
shoulder, but it was so heavy and when she waved it behind her, she | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
nicked Ed on the face and he needed six stitches. I bet the economist | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
wishes it had that story! Whether it will still have legs on Friday, we | :15:03. | :15:11. | |
will see! Ed Sheeran seems to be fairly content. Frankly, I think it | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
will be a great story for him to dine out on for 30 years, scarred by | :15:16. | :15:23. | |
a Princess. The royal mark of Zorro. And we have got to pay tribute to | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
you for the headline on page 11. Can you catch it on camera? It is about | :15:29. | :15:42. | |
Castro and you came up with our man in heavena. I convinced he has gone | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
to heaven? We were talking about it. There are plumes of smoke but that | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
could be from his cigar! Thank you to Dave Wooding and Josie Delap. You | :15:53. | :15:59. | |
can see The Papers at 10:30pm and 11:30pm tonight on the BBC News | :16:00. | :16:00. | |
Channel. Hello. An improving story through | :16:01. | :16:14. | |
the day today. It started quite grey but good spells of sunshine | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
developing for many areas. Sunny spells developing but we have | :16:19. | :16:19. |