:00:00. > :00:00.against Australia in the Twenty20 World Cup. And we will have all the
:00:00. > :00:20.night's rugby union and rugby league scores as well.
:00:21. > :00:25.Hello, and welcome to our look at the morning's papers. With me are
:00:26. > :00:27.the social affairs editor of the Guardian, Randeep Ramesh, and
:00:28. > :00:41.Reuters journalist and author Matthew Green. The FT leads with
:00:42. > :00:43."Insurers attack City watchdog" ` the financial insurance industry
:00:44. > :00:46.responding there to plans to investigate 30 million financial
:00:47. > :00:50.products. The Mail has the teenager who says she caught TB from her cat
:00:51. > :00:53.in what is believed to be the first case of its kind in the world
:00:54. > :00:56."Tuberculosis Rex" is the Sun's front page ` you can catch TB from
:00:57. > :01:00.dogs as well it seems The Independent has a headline about a
:01:01. > :01:03.plan to spend ?45 million on a free school, which it says will make it
:01:04. > :01:05.the most expensive in the country. The Telegraph claims Maria Miller,
:01:06. > :01:08.the culture secretary, made a million pounds profit by abusing the
:01:09. > :01:12.parliamentary expenses system and over`claiming for her mortgage.
:01:13. > :01:15."Banks must give fraud victims their money back" is the Times' lead,
:01:16. > :01:18.referring to plans to potentially refund victims of credit card fraud.
:01:19. > :01:21.And the Guardian has the headline that an Independent Scotland may
:01:22. > :01:29.keep the pound, which comes the paper says via a private admission
:01:30. > :01:36.from a government minister. That is where we will start. Matthew, it is
:01:37. > :01:48.all a bit like and dagger, isn't it? A minister in government, not named,
:01:49. > :01:55.all very secretive. It would be quite a bargaining chip for Alex
:01:56. > :01:58.Salmond, wouldn't it? It seems odd that someone within the government
:01:59. > :02:03.would have just handed over a gift like that so willingly. Very strange
:02:04. > :02:08.indeed. We heard earlier that Downing Street is denying that this
:02:09. > :02:18.is the case. It is obviously a huge boost to the pro`independence camp.
:02:19. > :02:24.Nick is keeping quiet about his source. It indicates what a good
:02:25. > :02:31.journalist he is. On the other hand, as Matthew was saying, this is about
:02:32. > :02:34.a victory for the pro`independence brigade, because they are getting
:02:35. > :02:38.the government to admit they are thinking the unthinkable. There is a
:02:39. > :02:44.bit of quid pro quo going on here. The currency union, which Scotland
:02:45. > :02:52.we understand would need, Westminster say they are not having
:02:53. > :02:59.it, would be in return for... In return for keeping missiles in
:03:00. > :03:05.Scotland, on the Clyde. It is a clever move, the government have
:03:06. > :03:09.said that they are in a different country if they vote for
:03:10. > :03:14.independence. Isn't this surrendering a little early? For me,
:03:15. > :03:18.it is inconceivable that Scotland are potentially going to leave the
:03:19. > :03:22.UK. I have just returned to the country after 14 years abroad, and
:03:23. > :03:26.if you told me when I left that I would return to find Britain split
:03:27. > :03:30.into, wouldn't believed it. The idea that senior figures in government
:03:31. > :03:38.are starting in negotiations, I find amazing. They are pouring cold water
:03:39. > :03:40.on it. A lot of the no campaign, we have Alistair Carmichael tonight
:03:41. > :03:44.saying that an anonymous off the record quote does not change the
:03:45. > :03:50.stance on the currency. Listen to the views of the governor of the
:03:51. > :03:57.Bank of England, and the Secretary of the Treasury, that the currency
:03:58. > :04:02.would be damaging for all of the UK, so a currency union will simply not
:04:03. > :04:06.happen. It is getting pretty close to the wire if we are even have an
:04:07. > :04:10.in this conversation. The atmospherics are being changed here.
:04:11. > :04:15.We know the polls are moving towards Alex Salmond, and in order to spike
:04:16. > :04:20.his gun somewhat, the government approaches this, or the ministry has
:04:21. > :04:25.approached this, saying that it is a bit of give. There is something we
:04:26. > :04:29.can trade away, so you might not want to do that. You might
:04:30. > :04:33.reconsider. It is a way of being realistic from the government's
:04:34. > :04:40.site. It doesn't help the no campaign, does it? Depends who is
:04:41. > :04:44.running the no campaign. They say, you can keep the currency but we
:04:45. > :04:50.need to keep our nuclear subs there, that is admitting defeat,
:04:51. > :04:54.isn't it? The SNP is committed to getting rid of the missiles, so
:04:55. > :04:57.there is a way in which they are saying, this is realistic. If you
:04:58. > :05:02.want to be independent, these are the sorts of deals he will have to
:05:03. > :05:07.make on your couples. This is all getting too sophisticated for me. It
:05:08. > :05:22.seems like a huge foreign goal. They are not doing very well at this
:05:23. > :05:30.strategy. `` own goal. Don't leave us! There is talk that the no
:05:31. > :05:34.campaign needs to stop being so negative, and concentrate more on
:05:35. > :05:43.the positives of us staying together. That is possibly a bit
:05:44. > :05:46.more difficult to make. We were told to phone up our friends in Scotland
:05:47. > :05:51.and encourage them to stay in the union, that sounds to me like it is
:05:52. > :05:59.pretty desperate. The Daily Telegraph, Maria Miller will not be
:06:00. > :06:03.happy to find herself on the front page. We understand she made a ?1
:06:04. > :06:08.million profit after over claiming for her mortgage. She wasn't the
:06:09. > :06:21.culture Secretary at the time, what she? `` was she? It is that ?1
:06:22. > :06:26.million figure that people will be up in arms about. She may have to
:06:27. > :06:35.repay a small amount but she has profited handsomely. The idea of the
:06:36. > :06:39.public purse supporting that. This is so familiar, the Daily Telegraph
:06:40. > :06:44.broke the story before the last election, and has continued. They
:06:45. > :06:47.stand on the brink of claiming a very big scalp if she were to decide
:06:48. > :06:51.that her position was untenable. There is a quote from a Conservative
:06:52. > :06:55.source, saying we cannot have a member of the cabinet found to abuse
:06:56. > :06:59.the expenses system in any way. Especially this close to a vital
:07:00. > :07:03.election. Obviously, the Daily Telegraph would stay this, but there
:07:04. > :07:08.is a line that has been crossed `` say. It is difficult for Maria
:07:09. > :07:15.Miller to say, I did the right thing, and then repay and apologise.
:07:16. > :07:23.That million pounds is first to keep, on the strength of ?5,000 she
:07:24. > :07:27.received. It never seems to end, but the kind of sanctions that
:07:28. > :07:31.Parliament have over MPs when they do this seem pretty feeble, don't
:07:32. > :07:36.they? Yes, particularly in this case. Maria Miller is accused of not
:07:37. > :07:40.cooperating with the investigation, which seems to be almost a bigger
:07:41. > :07:45.scandal in its own way and the allegation of the inflated mortgage
:07:46. > :07:52.claim. Let's move on to the Independent. In 20 minutes loop is
:07:53. > :08:06.time, there might be quite a few people getting married. `` 20
:08:07. > :08:09.minutes ' time. A couple of women there, we assume from the picture
:08:10. > :08:15.they are going to get married perhaps this weekend. Does it matter
:08:16. > :08:21.whether we call it a marriage or civil partnership? I think the
:08:22. > :08:25.bigger context is the important thing. If we rewind a few decades,
:08:26. > :08:30.something like this would have been unimaginable. The fact is, activists
:08:31. > :08:34.and campaigners have made this huge change in society, and that gives
:08:35. > :08:42.hope for a lot of other causes, whether it be big environmental
:08:43. > :08:46.problems that seem insoluble, so I think it is inspiring to see what
:08:47. > :08:49.could be achieved in the future. Some people still don't like it.
:08:50. > :08:54.They have had years to get used to it that they don't like it. They
:08:55. > :09:00.have lost the argument. They don't have to like it, do they? I suppose
:09:01. > :09:05.that anger will have to find a political outlet, maybe in the form
:09:06. > :09:10.of Ukip. You will always have to face that there will be a group of
:09:11. > :09:16.people whose religious beliefs... If it is your honestly held religious
:09:17. > :09:20.view that a marriage should be between a man and a woman, there's
:09:21. > :09:25.nothing bitter about that, is there? It is bitter in the sense that you
:09:26. > :09:27.have lost the argument and you have have lost the argument and you have
:09:28. > :09:31.to live with it. Your views have not prevailed upon the British public.
:09:32. > :09:33.What can you do? The march of progress is One Direction, you face
:09:34. > :09:47.the other way. It is difficult. This is the most expensive free
:09:48. > :09:56.school in Britain. ?45 million, six times the average on a school for
:09:57. > :09:59.500 children. It is the sixth form for high achieving students. No
:10:00. > :10:04.guarantee it will do them proud, is there? We have seen some free
:10:05. > :10:10.schools getting into hot water, and not being up to scratch. That is
:10:11. > :10:14.true, although, from where I am standing, spending more money on
:10:15. > :10:20.education, which is incidentally aimed at pupils from disadvantaged
:10:21. > :10:24.backgrounds or those with subsidised school meals, it seems at a good
:10:25. > :10:32.idea to me. ?90,000 per pupil? That much money? Why not? That is a
:10:33. > :10:36.misnomer, they are dividing the total cost of the school amongst 500
:10:37. > :10:42.students. Over time, that will be different. We need to spend more
:10:43. > :10:47.money on education, great, it is happening. Why shouldn't all
:10:48. > :10:53.children have that spent on them? Because we can't afford it. If you
:10:54. > :10:58.take ?45 million and give to 500 students, you remove it from
:10:59. > :11:02.everyone else. Free schools, on the face of it they are a good idea, but
:11:03. > :11:07.this particular idea rests on the fact there is a selection test. You
:11:08. > :11:12.select those people who are bright enough to get in, and the new
:11:13. > :11:16.trumpet the fact that you are sending essentially very clever kids
:11:17. > :11:19.off to Oxford or Cambridge. Without the selective nature, it wouldn't
:11:20. > :11:27.exist as a school. You are paying for elitism. There is the argument
:11:28. > :11:32.that, does selection have a place in a state funded school? Should it be
:11:33. > :11:36.open to everyone? You have to have a centre of excellence. If you have
:11:37. > :11:40.got the money and you are prepared to invest it, it will yield
:11:41. > :11:44.dividends over time. I find it hard to argue with the idea of setting up
:11:45. > :11:46.something that is really trying to help people who are coming from
:11:47. > :11:52.disadvantaged backgrounds to break into Oxford and Cambridge, from
:11:53. > :11:56.which they are still excluded. I would feel better if it was in
:11:57. > :12:04.Westminster, which is a rich part of the country, and there are other
:12:05. > :12:13.areas that are crying out for this. I'm going to talk about football,
:12:14. > :12:17.and care even less. I have set it. Apparently to Alan Pardew, the
:12:18. > :12:22.Newcastle united manager, footballers are now middle class. I
:12:23. > :12:27.thought we were all middle class, but are they? Are they eloquent,
:12:28. > :12:34.well educated middle`class boys these days? Football has become more
:12:35. > :12:39.posh than it once was. It is so expensive to go and watch a game,
:12:40. > :12:44.isn't it? The audience is definitely tending towards being middle class.
:12:45. > :12:47.What we have seen in rugby, cricket, for the Olympics, public school
:12:48. > :12:51.educated people dominate the ranks of our athletics teams, our rugby
:12:52. > :12:59.teams, our cricket teams. We have seen public school people appear in
:13:00. > :13:07.football. Oxlade`Chamberlain, Frank Lampard... I think the trend is
:13:08. > :13:13.there. I suppose because public schools have such fantastic sports
:13:14. > :13:17.facilities often. I notice they are a lot more particular. Remember the
:13:18. > :13:21.days when you felt so sorry for the footballers, having to answer
:13:22. > :13:24.questions after a match. Someone who is terribly articulate is not
:13:25. > :13:28.expected to score a goal for Manchester United. It seemed unfair
:13:29. > :13:33.in those days. Now they get media training. The last time I looked, it
:13:34. > :13:38.looks like football was more upper`class, or extremely wealthy.
:13:39. > :13:40.Isn't that the issue? There is so much cash floating around in
:13:41. > :13:46.football, that there is an excessive amount of money. Is that wealth or
:13:47. > :13:52.social class? That amount of money must buy you some social mobility,
:13:53. > :13:55.surely. That is the key problem, explaining the British class system
:13:56. > :14:01.to anyone who is not from Britain, it is impossible to decipher. Those
:14:02. > :14:24.days are gone now. That is it for the Papers. Much more
:14:25. > :14:29.at the top of the hour about that broke all between blood it to do and
:14:30. > :14:45.Barack Obama `` Vladimir Putin. Hello and welcome to Sportsday. I'm
:14:46. > :14:48.Lizzie Greenwood`Hughes. The headlines tonight: The fans planning
:14:49. > :14:53.a protest over Old Trafford tomorrow say it'll prove David Moyes isn't as
:14:54. > :14:56.popular as he thinks he is. St Helens win the battle of the
:14:57. > :14:59.unbeatables with a dramatic late victory over Leeds tonight, Makinson
:15:00. > :15:00.the man of the