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:00:00. > :00:00.more on what was an embarrassing by England against the Netherlands in

:00:00. > :00:19.the Twenty20 at Bangladesh. Welcome to our look at tomorrow's

:00:20. > :00:21.papers. My guests are the publicist and former Conservative

:00:22. > :00:30.vice`chairman Tim Collins, and the Deputy Editor of the Guardian, Paul

:00:31. > :00:33.Johnson. Let's have a look at some of the

:00:34. > :00:37.front pages. The Independent is looking at the sale of Royal mail

:00:38. > :00:40.and says that the government and taxpayers appear to have been

:00:41. > :00:44.fleeced by sophisticated city investors who made a quick buck on

:00:45. > :00:52.the flotation. The FT says that regulators are investigating foreign

:00:53. > :00:54.exchange manipulation by some banks. The mattresses that the advice to

:00:55. > :00:59.eat five portions of fruit and vegetables per day should be doubled

:01:00. > :01:03.to ten. That is the same story on the front of the Daily Telegraph. It

:01:04. > :01:07.says that ten portions could significantly reduce the chance of

:01:08. > :01:11.early death. The Daily Express say that their readers only need seven

:01:12. > :01:16.portions per day. The Guardian says that doctors are concerned that a

:01:17. > :01:18.major disease outbreak could kill thousands of people because

:01:19. > :01:22.hospitals cannot test life`saving drugs quickly enough. The Daily Mail

:01:23. > :01:28.says the police Federation paid a PR company on advice about using

:01:29. > :01:31.guerrilla tactics against government ministers. The Times reports that

:01:32. > :01:34.David Cameron will investigate the Muslim Brotherhood, amid fears that

:01:35. > :01:45.it is planning extremist activities here in Britain. Let's start with

:01:46. > :01:49.the Daily Mail. Apparently a PR firm was paid for advice on using

:01:50. > :01:55.guerrilla tactics against government ministers. This was the week before

:01:56. > :01:59.the pleb gate scandal. This story makes me deeply uncomfortable. I

:02:00. > :02:07.think Andrew Mitchell was treated appallingly and I think that there

:02:08. > :02:15.are a number of police officers who behaved wrong. I am surprised that

:02:16. > :02:20.the police are not allies. Margaret Thatcher was clear that they are the

:02:21. > :02:24.thin blue line, not just another public interest organisation. They

:02:25. > :02:28.protect us and sometimes they lose their lives protecting us against

:02:29. > :02:31.violent corridors. It is extraordinary to me that we should

:02:32. > :02:34.have a position where the relationship between the police and

:02:35. > :02:40.Conservatives should be as bad as it is. Both sides need to research the

:02:41. > :02:45.relationship. This comes in the same day as the first annual assessment

:02:46. > :02:48.of policing. That made very sobering reading, following the suggestion

:02:49. > :02:57.that there were irregularities during the whole affair. The

:02:58. > :03:07.investigation into Stephen Lawrence 's murder. This story traces back

:03:08. > :03:12.the campaign over pay and conditions were they wanted to enter a military

:03:13. > :03:21.style blitzkrieg to halt this move, turning to a PR agency. Its CEO is

:03:22. > :03:25.someone with a chequered past. He was a talk`show host who in a chat

:03:26. > :03:30.over smoking with a listener on the other end of the line described him

:03:31. > :03:39.as an ignorant peak and health Nazi, for which he censured. Some of

:03:40. > :03:45.the late that giving advice on a cogent strategy to the police

:03:46. > :03:49.Federation seems rather peculiar. Your firm, the PR company that you

:03:50. > :03:55.work for, you have worked with the police in the past? Leatherback my

:03:56. > :03:57.colleagues did some years ago. We try to put together opportunities

:03:58. > :04:06.for them to build better relationships with the government.

:04:07. > :04:09.They need a PR firm. It looks like, rightly or wrongly, they decided

:04:10. > :04:13.that they can get a better relationship with government and so

:04:14. > :04:16.they decided to go to war with them, which is not a clever tactic

:04:17. > :04:19.whatever group you are in. The government of the day of the ones

:04:20. > :04:22.who are elected by the people to take decisions. It is regrettable.

:04:23. > :04:26.The government have not had a litter smoothly as they could have done

:04:27. > :04:28.because they have given the strong impression that they think the

:04:29. > :04:34.police are just another campaigning group for people trying to protect

:04:35. > :04:39.privileges. The police Federation has gone over the line at times. It

:04:40. > :04:42.is not acceptable for any campaigning group to take the view

:04:43. > :04:46.that there should go to war against the government. This is the sort of

:04:47. > :04:49.land which had 30 or 40 years ago in different context. I hope everybody

:04:50. > :04:54.comes out and if this leads to anything at all, should be a belief

:04:55. > :04:57.that sitting down having a quiet conversation with each other is

:04:58. > :05:06.better than this kind of guerrilla war tactics. Let's go onto the

:05:07. > :05:10.times. A story concerning terrorism. David Cameron has ordered

:05:11. > :05:15.an urgent investigation into the Muslim Brotherhood, amid fears that

:05:16. > :05:19.the Islamic organisation is planning extremist activities in Britain.

:05:20. > :05:24.That is a fairly inflammatory introduction there. It is an

:05:25. > :05:28.interesting story. There is to be an enquiry and it will be undertaken by

:05:29. > :05:34.John Jenkins, Britain's Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. The last paragraph

:05:35. > :05:41.reads slightly differently. It reads that a senior foreign and, of office

:05:42. > :05:46.figures have resisted the prescription because I doing that if

:05:47. > :05:51.they attack a largely moderate body, it will only bolster extremists. The

:05:52. > :05:54.story partly says is world that the only places that the Muslim

:05:55. > :06:00.Brotherhood are outlawed at the moment is Egypt, Syria, Saudi

:06:01. > :06:12.Arabia, and Russia, I think. Has this been over eight? The story does

:06:13. > :06:17.not say that they were allegedly planning extremist activities in

:06:18. > :06:20.Britain, but from Britain. One of the visit is important about the way

:06:21. > :06:24.that the story is panning out is that London, like it or not, has

:06:25. > :06:27.become something of a bolthole for people who are in difficulties with

:06:28. > :06:36.their governments from all over the East. The West collectively, not

:06:37. > :06:39.just the UK, has not got it right about Egypt because a democratically

:06:40. > :06:45.elected president, maybe somebody would not agree with, but he was

:06:46. > :06:49.democratically elected, he was overthrown by the military and we

:06:50. > :06:53.have not done much at all in the West to condemn that. We are

:06:54. > :06:55.supposedly people who believe in democracy and it seems that we

:06:56. > :07:00.should have taken a stronger stance against that overthrew will stop

:07:01. > :07:03.when that the Egyptians would love other countries to treat the Muslim

:07:04. > :07:07.Brotherhood as a terrorist organisation. As it is the story,

:07:08. > :07:12.one week they sentenced 529 members of the Muslim Brotherhood to death.

:07:13. > :07:16.I am not at all sure that we should be contemplating being on the side

:07:17. > :07:19.of the Egyptian military in this dispute. The Muslim Brotherhood are

:07:20. > :07:24.not a perfect organisation, their beliefs are disagreeable. I

:07:25. > :07:28.understand that one of their stances is that only a Muslim man should be

:07:29. > :07:33.allowed to be President of Egypt. That is not be the most people in

:07:34. > :07:36.Britain would agree with but they could win an election and should not

:07:37. > :07:39.just take the view that they have set some things we do not like so we

:07:40. > :07:43.should back the military and overthrow the. What is the Guardian

:07:44. > :07:49.'s response in reporting the situation in Egypt? Bearing in mind

:07:50. > :07:57.that he was elected democratically: Mohammed Morsi, and he was

:07:58. > :08:03.overturned. It was a coup. What is your papers stands on this? Yes. We

:08:04. > :08:12.have a permanent Cairo `based correspondent, whose reporting is

:08:13. > :08:18.very difficult ever have two go very much for on the line reporting on

:08:19. > :08:23.the ground. He has done things like investigations of massacres and so

:08:24. > :08:27.on. You have to be very evenhanded, you can be driven ideologically

:08:28. > :08:33.reporting these things. He has been roughed up several times and had

:08:34. > :08:37.equipment confiscated. It is a very difficult place to report from

:08:38. > :08:43.because you are identified with either one side or the other. For

:08:44. > :08:45.many people in the Middle East, they regard the West is hypocritical

:08:46. > :08:49.because we say we believe in democracy and if they elect somebody

:08:50. > :09:00.that we do not like in the military thread about we did not say anything

:09:01. > :09:04.about it. The express reports... No, I apologise, let's go to the

:09:05. > :09:13.Telegraph. Double your five a day, Paul, to live longer. It is now

:09:14. > :09:18.supposed to be ten portions per day. We all confused about what you are

:09:19. > :09:25.meant to do. There is some inflation creeping in here. Some of the papers

:09:26. > :09:31.say seven, others say no it is ten. The Telegraph goes for ten. They are

:09:32. > :09:34.saying it is not just fruit and vegetables, vegetables are better

:09:35. > :09:39.than fruit. There thinking that taxes on sugary foods could be

:09:40. > :09:45.brought in to subsidise this and there is a terrific quote from the a

:09:46. > :09:48.professor from the Department of Public health at the University of

:09:49. > :09:52.Liverpool who said that the advice should be ten portions per day.

:09:53. > :09:56.Humans are designed to be omnivores and a handful of nuts, seeds, fruit,

:09:57. > :10:06.and the occasional antelope, were not meant to be `` we are not meant

:10:07. > :10:11.to be eating drugged food. That includes fruit and vegetables in a

:10:12. > :10:16.canned, that is not part of it. We are also designed to be dead and 30,

:10:17. > :10:24.submitted a judge things about what Neanderthals were doing. It turns

:10:25. > :10:27.out that a lot of the things that we were told contribute towards the

:10:28. > :10:34.five a day, actually do not count at all. Fruit used is not count, canned

:10:35. > :10:41.fruit does not count, vegetables that are frozen do not count either.

:10:42. > :10:45.A lot of people and businesses out there will have to think very

:10:46. > :10:48.carefully about how they can advertise their products. The

:10:49. > :10:55.express says seven per day rather than ten. It has decided that this

:10:56. > :11:00.is the line. Seven per day were ten per day, should you be having fruit

:11:01. > :11:06.and vegetables out of ten is not, it is very confusing. The public are

:11:07. > :11:14.wondering, went away time, what to do? It is also confusing. It is

:11:15. > :11:21.expensive to eat a vegetarian diet of that sort. Some people would say

:11:22. > :11:24.that. Education counts as well. Some of these groups will be

:11:25. > :11:27.self`selecting and this is not a simple process but it does grab

:11:28. > :11:35.headlines and it does raise awareness. Should not be easier when

:11:36. > :11:39.you are going the supermarket checkout and the petrol station to

:11:40. > :11:43.pick things up, should it be easier to get fruit and vegetables that?

:11:44. > :11:47.David Cameron was laughed at when he told off WHSmith were having the

:11:48. > :11:54.chocolate orange right at the point where you got to the checkout. It

:11:55. > :12:03.should have been a real orange. Why not? It should be cheaper but also

:12:04. > :12:07.more convenient. It is harder to get the essential stuff and easier to

:12:08. > :12:13.get chocolates and crisps. Let's move on to it is time to let pandas

:12:14. > :12:21.die out. It is meeting season for the couple in Edinburgh zoo but a

:12:22. > :12:29.noted naturalist suggests that it is time that without them die out. He's

:12:30. > :12:37.trying to be provocative here. I understand the point because if you

:12:38. > :12:43.apply logic to human beings' actions towards a national world, it is not

:12:44. > :12:47.get you far. The reason that people get up in arms about badges and

:12:48. > :12:51.Foxes is because they appear cuddly. You do not see a lot of people

:12:52. > :12:55.campaigning to set the right or other unappealing creatures in the

:12:56. > :12:59.panda is cute and cuddly. The truth is that this is why they are so

:13:00. > :13:03.loved, particularly by children. There would be a lot of people who

:13:04. > :13:08.would be heartbroken if we said that it is very difficult and so we let

:13:09. > :13:19.them die off. I can understand why he is making the point, but they are

:13:20. > :13:24.a symbol. If he did not have this kind of campaign to protect them,

:13:25. > :13:36.the money would not be redirected elsewhere, it just would not be

:13:37. > :13:46.spent on protecting animals at all. Chris Buck told the radio Times

:13:47. > :13:55.exactly the same thing in 2009. Page nine of The Sun. The Queen drilled

:13:56. > :14:09.for gas in the back garden. It is this and April Full's? It is a

:14:10. > :14:16.wonderful story it is obviously nonsense. The clue that it is a

:14:17. > :14:24.April Fool is that the people who are quoted is a campaigner with the

:14:25. > :14:33.surname fuel. The funny thing is... There is another one in the Times.

:14:34. > :14:38.They are a bit spoiled for choice because we have one story saying

:14:39. > :14:42.interactions with your computer can provoke a mixture of emotions. What

:14:43. > :14:44.about a computer that would read your mind from the expressions on

:14:45. > :14:52.your face and respond appropriately. Below that, Apple is

:14:53. > :14:58.talking about doing away with bumping into lampposts or being run

:14:59. > :15:06.over. And then possibly this one, this is a German duke who is related

:15:07. > :15:13.to the Stuarts who has a long lineage. The Windsors of course. The

:15:14. > :15:24.clue is where they cite an academic who support this with the name that

:15:25. > :15:30.sounds a bit suspicious. We Are Apps or that is Gaelic for April Fool.

:15:31. > :15:39.The Dukes of Saxony died out in the 1300. It has been great having you.

:15:40. > :15:43.Many, many thanks. Stay with us on BBC News because much more is coming

:15:44. > :15:48.up at top of the hour. Now it is time for Sportsday.