01/01/2017 The Papers

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

With me are Caroline Frost, entertainment editor

at the Huffington Post, and Robert Fox, defence editor

I hope you have had a restful yuletide. Nice to see you back here.

Tomorrow's front pages, starting with:

The Telegraph headlines the government's plan to build

new garden towns in England to try to alleviate the housing crisis.

It also reports on the hunt for the gunman who attacked

The Daily Mail chooses to focus on the Queen

missing church due to illness, saying she has not been seen

The Guardian reports the demand from a top GP

that the government must drop its plans to guarantee access

to doctors at weekends or risk cuts to weekday services.

Thousands of patients are waiting for hip and knee operations,

It also quotes Princess Anne, who insists the Queen's

The i bears the headline "smiling killer" -

referring to the gunman who killed 39 people in Istanbul.

And the Times also headlines the attack,

reporting that the Islamic State - who claimed responsibility

for the killings - has pledged a campaign of terror.

Theresa May overhauling the honours system also makes

And finally, the Mirror leads on the latest

We will start with the ongoing hunt for the gunman who struck the

Istanbul nightclub last night. We were reporting it around this time,

two o'clock in the morning local time, last night. Smiling killer, it

says. Shot victims one by one as they partied with friends. Hundreds

and hundreds of people were in this particular nightclub. A massively

popular place in Istanbul and well-known across Turkey. Very

cosmopolitan as well. It was deliberately targeted. He was

prepared all right. He was in some psychological state. The Express, on

one of its inside pages, say this man is now believed to have been a

Turkmen, possibly from Chechnya or eastern Afghanistan, or

Turkmenistan, one of the most enclosed places. They are coming

from a lot of different places now. What the Times is referring to, I

think, is the very high profile spokesperson and operational

manager, was killed at the end of September. His successor was any

named three weeks ago and started saying the same things to which the

Times is referring, namely lone wolves, go out and attack and do

things on your own and do your own thing. As the Times gathers, this is

the warning from UK security chiefs, that they are very worried this is

the message that has gone out before. Use vehicles to drive into

crowds. Don't bother with firearms if you are not particularly good.

Use kidnap and cold still. As you mentioned it, the new-found campaign

of terror after massacre. So many cities, London amongst them, had

extra security measures, especially concrete barriers, to try to avert

the kind of lorry attack you mentioned. We saw that only a few

days before Christmas. On the one hand, you have this Western divines.

We will continue as usual. All of the things we hold dear to our

culture and communities, going out and revelling and having fun and

celebrating Christmas -- western divines. These things have never

been more important. But it is now accompanied by this very transparent

ring of steel that we are at risk every time we do that. It is a

double message and very complex. What scares me is this recruitment

of lone wolves and the idea that in the past, we have had people trained

in camps and allsorts of things with al-Qaeda. This is just if you are

out there and believe what we believe, do your worst. It doesn't

need the Internet, it doesn't need training, it doesn't need arms, it

just needs a message. To me, that is the most frightening aspect.

President Erdogan again saying he will root out terrorism, but he has

that porous border. Four major attacks in four weeks. Very

difficult for him. He has been punished. The propaganda runs that

he has been punished for creating up to Russia. But he needs them for all

kinds of things, especially gas supplies -- cosying. And getting

Russian tourists on the beaches, which are being vacated by Western

tourists. Let's book and a couple of health stories. Top GP urges them to

drop the seven-day plan. If you open surgeries at the weekend, you can't

have it all week. We remember David Cameron with great fanfare, this

would be the 24/7 NHS. At that time there were rumblings about who would

pay for it and what resources would be thin on the ground. So it has

proved. This is a very senior GP. This is Britain's top GP sagging

there is not the need for it, this is an empty promise -- saying.

Nobody wants to book a GP appointment on a Sunday afternoon.

Equally, where are the resources? Something will have to give. She

says herself, there is no point filling a surgery with medical

knowledge and experience if on Sunday afternoon, where is the

person on Tuesday morning? These gaps will be showing. They talk

about ringing people in from abroad. She says it is not sustainable. She

was warning people would have to wait up to four weeks for an

appointment -- bringing. Very interesting that one of the junior

ministers of the outgoing coalition, the Liberal Democrat Norman Lamb,

was saying absolutely but the GP seven days a week is a superficially

attractive gimmick. The emperor has no clothes. It really was an

extraordinary piece of typical David Cameron flannel for propaganda. That

at the other help story on the Daily Express. Thousands face hip

operation agony because they will have a long wait. But more and more

people will need this kind of operation. We are all getting older.

I am over 70 now. No! It is the new 45 for me. We have to go on

reviewing the papers. It is longevity. We have to live with

that. There are other stories in the paper about old-age healthcare. They

are bringing people back from Benidorm who are experts having a

hard time and come in and do shifts in old people's care homes on very

little qualifications. But the cost of ageing is enormous. We are really

just at the beginning of it. It will be quite normal for people to move

into their 90s. Look at the Paul Quinn, or whoever it is, the amount

of telegraphs they will have to send to centenarians is enormous. -- poor

Queen. It is not that they are scarce, but demand is huge. Look at

the Times. Theresa May blames David Cameron the controversial honours

list. Every year, some of the names on the wrist raise eyebrows, the

busier, the Prime Minister says this is not done to me -- list. Do you

believe her? I don't know. We have to think some of the Home Office

appointment is surely would have come under her watch in her previous

status. However, it is interesting. She says it is all about... It ties

into her just about managing campaign. She said she wants to

prioritise people from very social mobility and allow the young to

realise their potential. One or two will be filled by Victoria Beckham,

I'm sure. But this year we have a an influx of sport personalities.

People will say why should a sportsman be given a gong in

addition to a medal he has already won? Why should people be given

gongs having being paid for a job well done. Or not even well done

according to some reporters. I think that is an interesting part of the

story. This is obviously based on a bleak. The times are having a go at

the Department of overseas aid. They say why is the Department

Undersecretary getting a knighthood? I think we will hear a lot to this

year about the 12 billion budget from the overseas aid agency, and it

is not being spent in the right places because the vultures are

circling. Everything from defence to health want a bit of that action.

They are trying to do that. So this very pious aim to spend 0.7% of GDP

in line with the United Nations on overseas aid, I think, the head

prefect will say no to that before the year is out. We have done the

times. Let's look at the back of the Telegraph. New towns to ease housing

shortage. We have been talking for years about our inability to provide

the housing supply that we need. But here is an idea, villages of up to

10,000 homes. That is an almighty big village that could be created in

certain parts of the country where people most want to be. That would

be a city. I did not realise a village could be that large.

Controversial if you already a big nose places and I want to see it

extended any further. Especially if it is greenbelt land, is priced in

the heart of the great pastures -- live in those places. In the face of

Brexit and terrorism fears, Donald Trump about to take his role in the

White House, the idea of new towns, I just think this is not something

people will benefit from any time soon. This reads to me like good

news for generate the first. They have to find parliamentary time to

get it through. I slightly disagree with Caroline here. It is people in

the inner cities, the really big cities like Manchester and

Liverpool, and people coming out of studies. They are looking for a

first start, even if it is only a modest flat. That is what they want.

I don't think those young people want to go and live in semi-

suburbanite was semi rural England. Dogs of Elsbury and Harlow. Where

are the jobs to draw them in? There is a bit of a disconnect. I do think

it is part of the Theresa May setting the stalled just in case we

may have to have an early election. We should talk about that more. But

we can't. Let's talk about the Royals. The Daily Mail, getting

better, ma'am. She has missed church again and not been seen for weeks.

24 days. I'm counting. She is the lady who said long ago she has to be

seen to be believed. She knows about the importance of an appearance.

Often in a beautiful blog colour and a big hat. Purpose of very said

young children -- said young children can see her from afar. I'm

sure she would not have wanted to missed church on Christmas Day, and

again on New Year's day. She has a cold. This is the official line. Her

daughter, Princess Anne, says she is better. She is in IT award lady who

has an iron constitution and has enjoyed that all her life -- I am

lady. She will be taking all sorts of medical opinions and advice on

how to get rid of this hacking cough as soon as possible. The good news

is that Prince Philip is back in action and bringing our way. 95

years old. Hats off. 95! You are just a mere 70. Not a hip operation

inside. Soldiering on without the Queen as you expect him to. But

clearly disappointment to those hoping to catch a glimpse of the

Queen. But anyone who was a supporter was obvious the

understanding of why she was not there. Let us go on to page four of

the Express. I love this one. Outdoor skills are lacking in the

young. Young people are clueless when it comes to basic survival

skills such as tying a knot or starting a fire up from scratch.

This is where I wish I had brought a length of rope in so Caroline and

Robert can show us a half page or a shipshape. There are so many

programmes these day is like like Bear Grylls showing us how to

survive in extreme conditions. They should have picked something up.

They mostly appear on young teenager's apps, don't they? This is

aiming at the app potato face. We all know how to make a fire outside.

We rub to Boy Scouts together. LAUGHTER

Young but decides you see people struggling. Pupils going out with

picnics. Everything has been done by a certain delivery van or whatever

-- people. You used it cook for half the world. Did you have an outdoorsy

childhood? I was once lowered to a harbour and did an outward bound

horrendous exhibition at age 12 something. We did all right. We tied

knots and started fires and waded through mud. The final frontier was

that each member of the team had to eat an entire pickled onion. This

was the fallout. This was where everything collapsed. A wild pickled

onion? I do agree. If you walked out on the street, the average

12-year-old could tell you how to hack into the Pentagon but asked

them, come the Apocalypse, which one will be standing, it will be this

man. I with Robert. You can type not for all of us. You will be carrying

the canteen. -- tying knots. That is it for the papers this hour. Nice to

see you both. Happy New Year. Coming up next, it is Reporters.