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after a three`month injury lay off. And Andy Murray will have to finish | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
his Davis Cup game tomorrow after bad light stopped play today. That's | :00:00. | :00:19. | |
after the Papers. Hello and welcome to a look ahead to what the papers | :00:20. | :00:28. | |
will be bringing us. Tomorrow's front pages. Beginning with the | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
Mirror. will be bringing us. Tomorrow's | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
front pages. Beginning with the It leads with Sir Bruce Forsyth bowing | :00:33. | :00:43. | |
out of Strictly. The Daily Telegraph also leads with that. The Telegraph | :00:44. | :00:57. | |
also has a picture of Sir Bruce, but focuses on the Culture Secretary | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
Maria Miller, with the claim that she tried to bully the parliamentary | :01:01. | :01:02. | |
watchdog to try to stop an investigation into her expenses. The | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
same story about Maria Miller also features on the Guardian's front | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
page, as does Bruce Forsyth with the caption "didn't he do well". And | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
there are more claims of bullying from the Culture Secretary in the | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
Times, which says she used threats to silence the expenses watchdog. | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
The Independent has its own investigation into police corruption | :01:18. | :01:19. | |
at Scotland Yard with what it says is more evidence of missing | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
documents. The Mail claims that Chinese investors are pricing | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
homebuyers out of the market. And according to the I the rescue fund | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
for the so called bedroom tax has run dry. And back to Bruce, with the | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
Sun and their cheeky headline, Chin Chin Brucie. If you heard a bit of | :01:33. | :01:39. | |
clicking while I was talking, it was the highlight caps going back on. | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
You see, sound effects. Let's begin with Maria Miller, the culture | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
Secretary is under fire again in the newspapers. We look at how the Daily | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
Telegraph is treating the story. She tried to bully the watchdog. | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
Pressure grows. We have the Prime Minister coming to her defence | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
again, but the newspapers are not letting this go. Just tell us a | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
little bit about this allegation please, then. They are really piling | :02:06. | :02:12. | |
on the pressure. The allegation is that she personally put pressure on | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
the Parliamentary independent standards Commissioner who was | :02:16. | :02:17. | |
investigating her. Telling her that it was perverse to be digging so | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
deeply into her affairs. A lot of people see that and think the woman | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
was doing her job. This is exactly what we want an independent | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
Parliamentary standards Commissioner to be doing. It speaks of an | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
arrogance and a lofty disdain for the proper systems of | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
accountability. That is the quite shocking allegation. The former | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
chairman of the standards committee has been saying that Parliament | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
needs to implement tougher disciplinary measures. He thinks | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
this reinforces the view strongly held by the public that politicians | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
are just out for themselves. Doesn't look like that? Urn I think so. | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
Interestingly, the more you read this, the angry at you become. Often | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
there are stories running for days and as a reader you just think, for | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
goodness sake. Why have they got their teeth into this one? I'm not | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
that interested. But this is about morale is he. It will touch on every | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
other story we look at during this reviewing session. Because it is | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
about the lack of leadership. When you have a Prime Minister who allows | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
someone who has, rightly or wrongly, irrespective of their intention, has | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
received money she should not have had and done it in a way which | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
brought her into disrepute. And then tried to get in the way of the | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
investigation, and the Prime Minister says that's fine. She pays | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
6% or 8% of the whole, we let her off the hook and she can apologise | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
for 30 seconds and that is fine, what message does that send to us | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
about leadership, responsibility, decency, and morale are the? I think | :04:01. | :04:08. | |
that impacts on the NHS, it impacts on education, there is a whole | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
culture in establishments and public service saying they are OK to do | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
what they do but it's all right for me to try and get away with breaking | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
the rules. `` morale as he. If she is censured within the rules and the | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
watchdog does what it can do, why should the Prime Minister not defend | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
her? Or is her position untenable? This goes not just to leadership at | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
structures. It is astonishing that despite the whole scandal we have | :04:38. | :04:44. | |
lived through, MPs are still essentially marking their own | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
homework. This was a committee of MPs who decided what level of fines | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
she should pay. MPs making decisions about MPs' abuses. That seems wrong. | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
One of the starkest FAQ is to come out of this is that the structure is | :05:00. | :05:07. | |
still look `` one of the starkest facts to come out is that the | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
structure still looks inappropriate. We take our lead from what we see. | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
If it's all right for them, we all start being loose around the edges. | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
This is very naughty behaviour. She is not following her own code of | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
conduct. Has she got to go? Of course she's got to go! What would | :05:32. | :05:40. | |
kids think? It's someone else's fault. For goodness sake. Can you | :05:41. | :05:48. | |
hold on a minute, you're in charge here. You just feel like it tonight. | :05:49. | :05:57. | |
I have heard you had hyper mobility. The Guardian. Medics faced | :05:58. | :06:05. | |
absolutely destructive caseload. This is so Richard Thompson, the | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
president of the Royal College of physicians. He says hospital doctors | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
are running around like a school did cat. They are not hyper mobile | :06:16. | :06:23. | |
enough. A serious point that resources are not therefore hospital | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
doctors to do their job of caring for patients. David Cameron came in | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
and made a very strong pledge to protect the national health service | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
funding in real terms, when every other department was taking big | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
cuts. What this senior doctor is saying is it is not good enough. | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
There needs to be more funding. So many elderly people come through the | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
system, and the health of the nation is such that the supplier is not | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
meeting the demand. This is a headache that David Cameron wanted | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
to avoid. He thought he was going out of his way to give resources to | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
the NHS. Senior practitioners rightly or wrongly are saying it is | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
not enough. A real headache for him. Every week we seem to see the health | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
secretary, Singh to sort this out. Absolutely. And he hasn't, it is a | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
failure of management. Some of the medics are managers, and they can't | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
manage their behaviour any more than the top of the BBC or indeed our | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
Parliament. Managing is quite a difficult thing to do. And doctors | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
aren't really taught how to manage, they are taught how to be doctors. | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
And the fact is that we've got a breakdown, and I come back to what I | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
was saying earlier, of Management, of morale at the comma of basic | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
responsibility. In this country. It is a mobile phone culture. Every | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
time something goes wrong, it you have someone to ring because you | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
can't make the decision yourself. Those structures and processes are | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
in place and are creating this trouble. If you listen to Stephen | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
Moss, he will say to you exactly what other doctors are saying all | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
the time which is that you can have on the same ward a team of Norster | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
nurses everyone looks forward to coming on when their shift begins | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
because the whole culture of the ward changes. And then a different | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
team comes on. It is a tightly detailed as that. And you have to | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
work out what it is about the management structures in our | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
organisations that causes this to happen. If everybody starts | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
admitting fault, irrespective of legal issues, that doesn't change | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
how places are run, does it? But it makes it easier to start the | :08:48. | :08:49. | |
conversation about how to put it right. If everybody is being | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
defensive, no one can take the first step. I think Management does matter | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
but is not a panacea. There will be pressures on resources simply | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
because more people need care. We need to make a big decision in this | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
country about how we are going to fund the national health service | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
over the next three decades. There is a problem in that a lot of people | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
think they can get away with low levels of taxation and high quality | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
services. That will just not fit, effectively. To an extent, this is | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
useful. It points that out and highlights that issue coming down | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
the line. Aren't we to blame, because we expect too much from the | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
NHS. We expect it to fix everything as soon as we ask it to. We turn up | :09:38. | :09:48. | |
at A rather than waiting for Monday morning to see a GP. Are we | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
being complacent about its use? I think most people would just be glad | :09:55. | :10:04. | |
to be spoken to nicely by a GP, have a conversation about how they feel, | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
and then just leave. Even in the event of a misdiagnosis, there is a | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
more positive response to the interaction. One is far more willing | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
to forgive a nice person and a horrible one. I'm sorry to reduce it | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
to that, but this is about basic interactions. Most people are not | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
complaining about operations. Those are, which is why we read about them | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
in the newspapers. The day`to`day complaints are about the | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
interactions with GPs, on wards with carers. It's not about a consultant | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
who wasn't funded to give you a special drug. But if they don't have | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
enough time to spend with you, whether GP... That is a management | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
problem. Maybe also a staffing problem, which also comes under | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
management. Moving on. A China tycoon buying a house. Earlier we | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
looked at another story about investors overseas inflating | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
property prices in the country. This now is a tycoon. A Russian | :11:09. | :11:27. | |
oligarch, a shake, `` sheikh... And apparently you're a tycoon. They | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
have bought a department store which are used to work in. It is a | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
nationalistic issue. This was previously owned by Icelandic | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
banks. It tried to sell it to French Company 's. The ownership does not | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
matter. It is interesting that China has so much surplus cash and is | :11:49. | :11:55. | |
willing to spend it abroad. `` companies. Identikit matters because | :11:56. | :12:03. | |
these are just business deals. It's not about what it represents, it is | :12:04. | :12:14. | |
about `` I don't think it matters. We always get to that, don't be? It | :12:15. | :12:22. | |
is the albatross. The house of Fraser joins a list which includes | :12:23. | :12:29. | |
the maker of London's famous iconic black taxis, sunseeker | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
International, and Weetabix. These are regarded as British brands, but | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
they are not that reddish in terms of ownership. I'm not sure it | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
matters. It is not as though we are going to get Weetabix with black | :12:48. | :12:55. | |
bean sauce, they are not down there on the shop floor. It's interesting | :12:56. | :13:03. | |
they have bought a department store. We are constantly told this is the | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
great market, Chinese shoppers spending their money on the high | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
street. That is definitely true. What is often underreported is the | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
reason they do that is there is a huge luxury tax in China. Luxury | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
goods over there are much more expensive so it is cheaper to get on | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
a plane and come to London or Europe and spend money here. I'm not sure | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
that will be there for ever, so maybe it's not such a great | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
investment in the medium term. We will have to wait and see. We will | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
stay with the Financial Times. Three portraits. Tony Blair, angler | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
Merkel, and Vladimir Putin. The artist formerly known as 43rd US | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
president George W Bush has unveiled his portraits of world leaders `` | :13:51. | :13:58. | |
Angela Merkel. I was quite impressed. I didn't know he could | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
even hold a crayon. He reads books upside down. And I am thrilled he | :14:04. | :14:10. | |
could put this together. He can't ever get the eyes in a straight | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
line, but it may be that these shady characters, in my personal view, | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
might personal view is he looked at these and thought it was shady | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
characters which he has done all with lopsided eyes. Using a theory | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
of facial profiling, that's not a good thing, is it? I wonder when he | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
did these, he famously kept quite short hours at the White House. He | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
could have been scurrying upstairs to do these. Apparently he told his | :14:40. | :14:46. | |
art teacher there was a hidden Rembrandt in his body and it was | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
their job to get it out. I'm afraid it is mission not accomplished. They | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
are pretty dire. I would not want to have them hanging in my house. You | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
would like them to hang in your house, because they will be worth | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
money in a few years. A lot of people take up dancing for therapy. | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
That's fine. I'm not sure they should be inflicted on the general | :15:14. | :15:24. | |
public. Let's move on to the Sun. TV legend quits Strictly. Sir Bruce | :15:25. | :15:34. | |
Forsyth bowing out. He has been hosting for ten years, Strictly Come | :15:35. | :15:42. | |
Dancing, the hit BBC One show, and he is finding the live shows a bit | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
of a strain. If you were standing for hours and hours doing and has | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
live rehearsal all day with Tess Daly, come on! By the time you get | :15:53. | :15:59. | |
to 7pm live on TV, Woody Ju just be wishing someone would come in and | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
carry you out of the studio? You don't know how easy you've got it, I | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
feel for Bruce. If I were him, I too would be retiring after all this | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
time. One of them had to go. I have to stand on that catwalk from time | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
to time, so don't start. He is going to be there, he is not completely | :16:19. | :16:25. | |
going. Yes, he says, I'm not retiring, I will still be around. | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
There is hope for Brucie fans. I don't watch Strictly Come Dancing, | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
but I do remember watching him when I was a kid, and it is phenomenal | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
that he has been going for that long. We have something like a | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
conveyor belt here, I can turn it like a lazy Susan. That is if the | :16:44. | :16:56. | |
papers, thank you both. Well done for surviving your first evening, it | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
is not easy. | :17:01. | :17:03. |