:00:00. > :00:00.the games, the Winter Olympics start tomorrow. We will hear from one of
:00:00. > :00:16.Britain's skiers in Sportsday, head of The Papers.
:00:17. > :00:25.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what The Papers will be bringing
:00:26. > :00:29.you tomorrow with the broadcaster David Davis, and Philippa Kennedy
:00:30. > :00:35.the ombudsman at the Sun. We will start with a picture of the storms
:00:36. > :00:38.battering Porthleven in Cornwall. That is dominating the Telegraph's
:00:39. > :00:44.front page. The main story is a warning that Britain's tax system is
:00:45. > :00:46.apparently punishing success. The Independent claims the Liberal
:00:47. > :00:50.Democrats cools Minister, David Laws, once Ofsted to have more
:00:51. > :00:56.scrutiny of Michael Gove's academy programme. According to the FT,
:00:57. > :01:00.defence companies are being asked by the MOD to highlight potential job
:01:01. > :01:05.losses if Scotland breaks away from the United Kingdom. Ahead of the
:01:06. > :01:09.Winter games in Sochi, the Guardian has an open letter from 200
:01:10. > :01:15.prominent international authors saying Russia's International Gay
:01:16. > :01:20.and blasphemy laws threaten freedom. The Daily Mail has a plan about
:01:21. > :01:25.extracting data from medical records. The daily express claims
:01:26. > :01:32.eating a yoghurt a day could help prevent diabetes. And the Sun has a
:01:33. > :01:36.story saying Liz Hurley denied having an affair with Bill Clinton.
:01:37. > :01:41.The big story of the day and it is on some of the front pages, the
:01:42. > :01:45.weather. Let's show our viewers some of the front pages detailing that
:01:46. > :01:52.now. Striking pictures from the returning storms on many of the
:01:53. > :01:56.front pages. The Telegraph shows waves engulfing the church at
:01:57. > :02:00.Porthleven in Cornwall. The financial Times features a similar
:02:01. > :02:06.shot of the lighthouse at New Haven in East Sussex. The Express has
:02:07. > :02:13.several pages on the storms and shows the railway line at Dawlish in
:02:14. > :02:27.Devon. Rail bosses say it could take six weeks to fix. The storms are
:02:28. > :02:32.dominating everything. Fantastic pictures. They are but these people
:02:33. > :02:36.have been battered and battered. It is all right now because the Prime
:02:37. > :02:44.Minister is riding to the rescue. I think that is a due -- dubious
:02:45. > :02:53.political risk. What is he going to do to stop the weather? He is now
:02:54. > :02:57.taking charge. David Cameron took personal charge of the flooding
:02:58. > :03:02.crisis yesterday. What they don't seem to have picked up on in the
:03:03. > :03:08.early editions are that Owen Paterson has gone into hospital, he
:03:09. > :03:15.has got an eye operation. I do not know how serious that is, a detached
:03:16. > :03:19.retina? It seems extraordinary timing. We are told he could lose
:03:20. > :03:26.his eyesight if it is not dealt with. Clearly, he cannot affect the
:03:27. > :03:30.timing of that. Our political correspondents throughout the
:03:31. > :03:34.evening say it does feed into the perception. It is a dangerous
:03:35. > :03:38.business as a politician getting involved with the weather. You,
:03:39. > :03:45.having been in America for some time, will remember the problems in
:03:46. > :03:50.New Orleans and George Bush, just before the presidential election
:03:51. > :03:57.just so long ago we had Obama being seen to take control and Chris
:03:58. > :04:03.Christie saying the president has done a good job and upsetting or his
:04:04. > :04:08.Republican mates. That was Superstorm Sandy which it the States
:04:09. > :04:14.just before the election. It is a day after the Prince of Wales turned
:04:15. > :04:21.up in Somerset, properly clad with his Wellingtons and country jacket.
:04:22. > :04:26.It seems too little, too late. It has taken a long time for anybody to
:04:27. > :04:31.get to grips with this. We have been talking to whether or not the
:04:32. > :04:33.Environment Agency was right or wrong to say they did not know
:04:34. > :04:39.whether they should start dredging the weathers. -- dredging the
:04:40. > :04:43.rivers. I think there is some PR which has gone wrong will stop even
:04:44. > :04:50.if it does not help the marshes around Somerset, if I was the
:04:51. > :04:55.Environment Agency I would stick a few dredgers in there to show people
:04:56. > :05:01.they will do something. David Cameron said they will start doing
:05:02. > :05:08.that. Are they working together. We have a story that David Cameron is
:05:09. > :05:10.taking control and being chair of the emergency committee. The
:05:11. > :05:15.Environment Agency's chairman has been heavily criticised for not
:05:16. > :05:19.visiting the Somerset Levels, he did not attend that meeting. He may have
:05:20. > :05:27.been out in the floods but you do wonder. There are no votes in this
:05:28. > :05:33.for politicians and my own instinct is that governments get the blame
:05:34. > :05:39.for the weather. It is a risky strategy. The next general election,
:05:40. > :05:44.he might be slapped away with the tidal waves. You can sit in a lovely
:05:45. > :05:50.studio like this and there are some amusing elements to it, but most
:05:51. > :05:54.certainly, not for those who are so intimately involved. I live in
:05:55. > :05:59.Worcestershire and we have had more than our fair share of floods in the
:06:00. > :06:05.county in recent times. And then, as a Londoner born and bred, I look at
:06:06. > :06:10.that railway track along Dawlish. There is a terrific picture in the
:06:11. > :06:16.Express of that hanging together. Six weeks to fix it. I would be
:06:17. > :06:22.amazed if it was fixed in six weeks. Six months is more like it. When I
:06:23. > :06:29.used to go along that role we line with my mum, I used to think it was
:06:30. > :06:37.the most exciting thing. It is the single link to that part of the
:06:38. > :06:41.county. Spectacular pictures but not funny for the people involved. There
:06:42. > :06:47.are human tragedies beneath all those photos, it has to be said.
:06:48. > :06:55.Let's go on to the Independent, David Laws and goes. It has been a
:06:56. > :06:58.lively old week for Michael Gove who is fast becoming the most
:06:59. > :07:03.controversial member of this coalition government. On Sunday, he
:07:04. > :07:08.got into hot water because he would not renew the contract of Baroness
:07:09. > :07:12.Morgan, the chair of Ofsted who used to work for Tony Blair. Then he made
:07:13. > :07:19.a major speech which could be summed up as back to the future on the
:07:20. > :07:26.education system that he wants to see. Good things, there are some
:07:27. > :07:33.good things and not so good things, some of us would argue. The basic
:07:34. > :07:38.point is, here we have David Laws, his number two, who was widely
:07:39. > :07:41.reported not to be happy with the treatment of Baroness Morgan, saying
:07:42. > :07:46.he wants all-party select committee is to be given the power to veto
:07:47. > :07:53.public service appointments, like the chair of Ofsted to prevent
:07:54. > :07:55.cronyism, and also talking about the way the Conservatives Academy
:07:56. > :08:02.schools are going to be investigated. We are seeing a move
:08:03. > :08:07.away between the two coalition playmates, as it were, as we get
:08:08. > :08:12.closer to the 2015 election, this is just another manifestation of that,
:08:13. > :08:17.isn't it? Education is absolutely crucial. What do people worry about?
:08:18. > :08:20.Being able to park their car outside their houses, their children being
:08:21. > :08:27.able to go safely to school and they worry about safety and security and
:08:28. > :08:33.policing, all the basics. I think Mr Gove has tapped into a very strong
:08:34. > :08:41.vein of public concern which has, to a lot of us, it sounds like Tory
:08:42. > :08:54.policy. I am not trying to praise the Tories in anyway. I think
:08:55. > :09:01.education is a basic thing. He is the most radical Education Secretary
:09:02. > :09:07.of modern times. Unions would say he is foolhardy. We will have to move
:09:08. > :09:11.on. On the front page of the Independent, everything you need to
:09:12. > :09:17.know about the Winter Olympics. It starts on Friday. Mr Cameron will
:09:18. > :09:22.not be there. When a country is awarded a major event, as London was
:09:23. > :09:29.for the Olympics, as South Africa was close to my heart in one sense
:09:30. > :09:34.all those years ago for the soccer World Cup. The scrutiny that your
:09:35. > :09:39.country or your city gets from the world is quite extraordinary. You
:09:40. > :09:44.can argue that the Russians were not, and have not, been ready for
:09:45. > :09:52.it. The porosity of it, yes, around gay rights in particular. There is a
:09:53. > :09:55.letter on the front page of the Guardian from 200 writers. It is
:09:56. > :10:04.very critical of what is going on in Russia. The calls for boycott - a
:10:05. > :10:11.boycott - which some of us remember in the Moscow Olympics of 1980, they
:10:12. > :10:18.have been very mooted. Mr Putin is not going to be bothered, is he? I
:10:19. > :10:26.do not think he will be bothered that Salman Rushdie has signed a
:10:27. > :10:35.letter. It is all to do with the recent gay propaganda and blasphemy
:10:36. > :10:42.laws which prohibit, nontraditional sexual relations. That caused a lot
:10:43. > :10:45.of controversy. Putin will be concerned about the aftermath of
:10:46. > :10:52.Sochi when he looks ahead to the soccer World Cup four years of the
:10:53. > :10:59.way. The tax system is punishing success, apparently. They think that
:11:00. > :11:06.taxing higher earners will make them all flee the country. Is there any
:11:07. > :11:16.evidence of that? Apart from Richard Branson... There was an interesting
:11:17. > :11:19.two quotes in this story. Danny Alexander, the Liberal Democrats,
:11:20. > :11:23.saying today that the idea of the top rate of tax being brought down
:11:24. > :11:28.to 40p will happen over my dead body, on the same day that Boris
:11:29. > :11:32.Johnson indicated that plans to cut taxes for the richest would appear
:11:33. > :11:38.in the Tory manifesto, which is being written by his brother. That
:11:39. > :11:42.is there enough. We will be back in an hour to look at the more of the
:11:43. > :11:46.stories making the headlines here. Stay with us. Coming up at the top
:11:47. > :11:49.of the hour we will have much more on all the weather problems that are
:11:50. > :11:54.causing havoc in the south-west. Stay with us for that. Now it is
:11:55. > :12:07.time for the sport.