28/02/2017 The Papers

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

With me are The Chairman of the Political arm

of Bell Pottinger and former Conservative MP, Tim Collins

and the Deputy Editor of The Guardian, Paul Johnson.

The FT leads on the story that Sir Philip Green has agreed to pay

The i also picks up the story, saying the news

The Telegraph claims that children as young as four could be given sex

education to warn them about the dangers of the internet,

The Times reports at the inquest into attack on tourists in Tunisia,

with a former Tunisian minister telling the paper the attack had

Also picking up on that story, The Guardian reports that families

of the deceased vow to sue the holiday company

A new study linking obesity to 11 types of cancer makes

The Metro reports on a trial into whether a cancer surgeon removed

Claims that the government is revisiting changes that would see

drivers insurance premiums go up by several hundred pounds.

He says sorry and pays ?363 million, that is 10% of his net worth. It is

also worth bearing in mind the 500 million that he took out of the

business ten years ago. It was making a profit and that he had

stuck that into a tracker fund it would have doubled by now, so people

saying he is paying back almost all the money he took out. He probably

pay them off a lot more -- made an off a lot more. At the moment

nothing he did seems to have been unlawful, questions over whether the

law should be changed for the future, but he probably didn't need

to hand this money back and that is hanging onto his knighthood that

probably incentivised it. Those campaigning on his knighthood have

possibly secured the victory. Maybe it was just as well he had alienated

after all. Somebody should tell David Beckham that is so much united

costs? If you are asking the question what is at worst, it looks

as if it is 363 million to Philip Green. Presumably he is anticipating

getting his front row seat back at London Fashion Week. And going

around in his yacht he won't be bullied by the media! The deal

question is whether the Daily Mail insist on calling him Sir Shifty.

Shuffling through no! We haven't got one! How annoying is that? The one

night we actually wanted to see the Daily Mail and we don't have it!

This has been awful. He buys it in 2000 ?41 and sells it in 2015 to a

racing bankrupt the times. In light must have gone on in the background

and meanwhile 11,000 people have lost their jobs and 18,000

pensioners living in anxiety. But they are getting something, 88% of

what they would have got otherwise but the factors, if I was a private

citizen who had a company, the company is in dire straits and they

can sell it for a quid tomorrow and off-load the pension fund and not

worry about it, the same thing could happen tomorrow, normal rules have

been changed. And there's a question that the law should be different, it

wasn't changed unbearably Labour Government the Tories, so all

parties have some sharing keeping the law as it is. They are in the

case for changing it but the power of the shame, the media, and we

often have stories or whether it is a good thing that the media can be

quite so intrusive. This is how it works. If this had been reported in

almost any other country in the worldly person could have just

bought soft but because it is the British media they held him to

account. It also illustrates way political parties can be held in

thrall to money. Tony Blair are given a knighthood for services to

industry. David Cameron gave him a job looking at government spending.

If only there was another issue we are both David Cameron and Tony

Blair were on one side. What was that? You can laugh now. The

Guardian, Tunisia. There was only ever going to be one verdict from

the coroner, unlawfully killed, the question is any culpability

potentially that the two operator might have. That is the way some of

the families are going now. The coroner was very decisive and didn't

mince words on this. He said the response of the security forces was

shambolic at best and currently at worst, which to the survivors and to

the relatives of those bed must come us an awful shock to hear that. They

are now turning their attention to the company to see if they were

negligent. It revolves around quite complicated advice to the Foreign

Office. They do three levels, read meaning don't go there and Amber

meaning of it is essential and green, look up the advice. The tour

company didn't tell people to walk up the advice and the advice would

have said there is a high level of activity. But to be fair, the

company did say it was in the literature but it was on leave is a

page of all the confirmation notes that were given to all of the

travellers and you don't need a visa for Tunisia! It is horrific, the

Guardian front page has the photographs of 30 victims and that

is a striking way of bringing home that these are not numbers but

people, loved ones whose lives have been devastated, and we always have

to remember that human side of it. The difficulty also with that

although I absolutely agree that the coroner has done a splendid job, he

was very stark and some of the things he is saying, we have to be

careful that we haven't County Council determines to blame the

police and Tunisia and the tour company that might have provided

better advice, we mustn't forget that actually the person responsible

was the terrorist, who was himself shot at the end of it. The question

is whether others could have done more but the real blame lies with

the terrorists and those who radicalise them. Tourism now down

95%. Let's go to the Telegraph. Children aged four to learn the

perils of the intranet. And this is the sort of story I think will make

difficult because you want your difficult because you want your

children to be protected and have proper advice. The actual meat of

the story is about saying that every school in the country, whether local

authority or free school or whatever, will be required,

certainly at secondary level to have proper sexual education and teach

children about relationships. That I think is uncontroversial, but the

difficulty is some parents will be uncomfortable about the idea of

children as young as four black being taught anything about sex. On

the other hand the headline captures that children that young and younger

are going to come across stuff which is often very worrying and confusing

to them and they need to have somewhere to turn, so it is not easy

and those who say that on the one hand children that young should be

kept away from sex education, but equally those who want to expose the

genuinely childlike and innocent do things that they don't need to see,

that would be wrong as well. We have to find a way through the middle.

There has to be a holistic approach. It has to be everybody's

responsibility, not just at home and the parents but the school as well.

Children spent two thirds of their time at school so as a result those

institutions have a duty of care. The form of the headline slickly

dramatic but there was a time that the question was do you learn from

teacher or parent, but the answered is no invariably from the web. And

there is a graduated response, sex education is only compulsory in

locally run schools so this is now broadened it out. If you're talking

about the perils of relationships and aggressive relationships and

what does consent mean, if you talk about the whole are of things we

have become so aware of and worried about then this is surely a very

creative and sensible way of going about it. But controversial and I am

sure the story will run. Staying with the Telegraph, I am turning

straight to you on this. Douglas Carswell in talks to rejoin the

Conservatives, would you like him back? That would be over the dead

body of quite a lot of people. An extra notch on the majority? To be

clear, it is no surprise to you I supported leaving in the referendum

and I thought Ukip were more responsible than anybody of turfing

me out of Parliament and I think Nigel Farage deserves to get a

peerage and 4 million voters should be represented better than they are,

but if you defect from one party to another I don't think you have the

right to defect back. The only one I can think of as Winston Churchill

and Douglas Carswell is no Winston Churchill. Despite that's staggering

thing from term advising Nigel Farage should be made a peer,

Douglas Carswell couldn't get him a knighthood. He thinks Nigel Farage

is a bit of a joke and is worth only an MBE, meanwhile Aaron Banks says

he is going to take on Douglas Carswell on his own constituency and

force out. Nigel Farage of attacking the current leader, Paul Nuttall,

and Paul Nuttall, he has gone missing. My favourite line in this

story that continues inside is that Ukip have contemplated taking leave

whip away from Douglas Carswell but they can't do that because it would

require the vote of the parliamentary party and he is! Ukip,

they are quite frankly, in achieving their name, the most successful

political party in this country at the moment. They add in complete

disarray. And yet, if we believe the opinion polls it has made next to no

difference to their support whereas Tory and Labour support has gone up

and Ukip supporters at the same level. There are 3-4,000,000 people

who still think Ukip is closer to them than anybody else. This is the

sort of calibre of some of the people who have got as to the edge

of the ruinous Brexit we're about to enter. Anybody would have thought

this was planned. Just as well be about to go onto a story. I want to

start with Paul on this. Dyson challenges tech giants with huge

investment in Britain. She supported it. Sir James Dyson, to you. He is

investing in this country and saying Brexit will be our success and it is

dodgy lefties like you who want to knock it over! We will forgive him

the tautology, well done. The balance of BBC presenting has been

tipped over the edge. Lots and lots of movements going down, so any

inward investment is judged a triumph, and any? That stands

dubious, so what we have had in the last few days is the possibility of

the Many going to Germany and question marks over Nissan

investment and mixed messages from HSBC, and the warnings from

investment companies and insurance companies over Brexit itself. We're

in a very perilous situation. The story, Dyson is investing in

Britain. Billions of pounds. Facebook is invested, Apple. The tax

revenues we get from them will be... Given they have created thousands of

jobs all those people will be paying taxes. Some may be even enough to

buy the Guardian! Given away free now? This is an investment but Paul

points out that dodgy right-wingers like you... Got the balance! They

are just a little bit too sunny. We heard John Major point out that the

truth needs to be told. First of all I am delighted having spent 20 years

in the Conservative Party where we were accused of doom and gloom, I am

glad people think the right is sunny and cheerful and talking about how

wonderful the world those. I am an optimist and I think the world will

get back. During the referendum campaign last year, we can all agree

there were some fairly large porky pies told by people on both sides.

One person who clearly told the truth all the way through was James

Dyson and I looked him up two weeks before the referendum and he said he

voted for Brexit jobs and would come, and he has done his bit.

Talking about porky pies, to the express and Donald Trump gets

himself a C for communication. The fact judges have thrown at his

executive orders is nothing to do with being unconstitutional but it's

because he didn't sell it properly. That is one way of looking at it! I

am thinking he could slide 20 letters in the alphabet. I wonder

what he gets himself in diplomacy, diversity. Foreign aid,

environmental programmes, the list is getting longer, but the A for

effort, it is his self-analysis. So he just needs to tune up the

messaging, he should talk to you. He probably is! A first services to

twitter. Barack Obama's memoirs, he is selling them for 60 million quid.

Someone in London must be looking at that money and feeling very sick.

David Cameron! He didn't quite get the millions he was looking for. He

is a bestselling author anyway. We will have to lend it there. Many

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