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down from British cycling to concentrate on Team Sky and we'll | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
have the results of the meeting of the top two in Super League. That's | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
all after the Papers. Hello and welcome to our look ahead | :00:09. | :00:22. | |
to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are the writer | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
Dreda Say Mitchell and Jeremy Cliffe of The Economist. Thank you both for | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
coming in, this evening. A look at tomorrow's front pages. We'll start | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
with the Financial Times. That says the Government will make it easier | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
to prosecute people who evade taxes by hiding money off`shore. | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
The Independent says Parliament's expenses watchdog will look into | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
claims the taxpayer indirectly funded a suite for what the paper | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
calls "a sex party" during a Conservative Party Conference. Of | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
the Telegraph says families with stay`at`home parents pay more tax | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
than most of their equivalents across the developed world. | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
The Mirror leads on the Oscar Pistorius trial. | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
The Mail reports on allegations that the liberal Party, police and MI5 | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
covered up child abecause committed by the former MP, Smith. | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
The Express says there is confidence that the black box from the missing | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
Malaysian airliner will soon be found. | :01:25. | :01:26. | |
A senior Liberal Democrat MP has told the times his party is | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
"pointless." And the Guardian says the Attorney`General wants an | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
explanation from the Crown Prosecution Service about the failed | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
prosecution of public figures for alleged sex offences. | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
So, those are some of the front pages we have been getting in so | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
far. We'll start this evening with the Daily Telegraph and a story | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
about how actually ` well, it might be unfair or it might not. Why don't | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
you kick off, it is a story suggesting that couples with a | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
stay`at`home mum pay more than the international average It is unfair | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
depending of your point of view or family make`up. Most people in | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
Britain, the story resounts have lower tax than the average in the | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
OECD group. Apart from those of which one parent goes to work and | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
the other one stays at home to look after children. The tone of the | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
article is negative about this describing it as a failure of the | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
Government's intention to correct that, by allowing partners to | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
exchange tax allowances. That said, what struck me reading this is it | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
doesn't take into account the big elephant in the room in this story | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
which is childcare. Childcare in Britain is much more expensive than | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
other European countries which in a way is a tax on parents who go to | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
work. You were nodding vigorously. I was, not that I have any children. | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
But this is what I hear from people I know, how expensive childcare is. | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
It was interesting. When I looked at this story, the big thing that | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
jumped out at me, it seemed to be really saying about stay`at`home | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
parents, this is what we want mothers to be doing in Britain. | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
Well, hay hey, the rest of us have moved on. You were talking about | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
transferrable tax. Every time I see a story about tax, I get confused, | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
what is transferrable and what is this type of tax. I would imagine | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
many people in Britain are like me. Who are the winners and losers with | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
regard to tax? It would be true to say that this Government is trying | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
to encourage mums to stay at home while their children are young and | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
the tax regulations would be anything other than that, this would | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
suggest. They have tried to loaf that option open to people. The | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
story notes. They have tried to use a transferrable allowance to make it | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
possible. But as you say, I wonder how many parents would choose to | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
have one staying at home looking after the children if they could | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
afford the childcare. For many, going to work isn't worth the effort | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
because the money you earn goes straight back out to the nursery or | :03:56. | :03:57. | |
creche. We will stay with the Telegraph. | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
Another story which is interesting and one I know you feel passionate | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
about. The headline ` teach ten`year`olds Bill legal drugs says | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
the advisor. At the`year`olds, really? I think Professor Simon | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
Gibbons, he is passionate that ten`year`olds and it is not just | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
ten`year`olds, it is 10, 11, 12`year`olds, this whole notion of | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
not just primary schoolchildren, children in muddle school. It is a | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
much bigger agenda, it is not just about drugs on its own, about the | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
health agenda. If we are thinking about the National Health Service in | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
the future, what we need to be thinking about is about getting less | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
people to come to the National Health Service. Really what we want | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
to be thinking about is educating our children about thinks that | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
really influence their health and we know a big one is drugs. You know, | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
the impact that that has on someone's body. We should nted shy | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
away with it with children as long as it is done and I know teachers | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
will do it in a very responsible way. There is this argument that if | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
you, start talking about something, a bit like sex education that it may | :05:04. | :05:11. | |
try to en encourage them to doll something you are trying to prevent | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
them. I think it is a false argument. Do you want them to | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
encounter things like drugs and sex before they have learned about them | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
in school or the other way around? I think Professor Gibbons is right to | :05:24. | :05:33. | |
say it is taught in school before they come to hearing about it | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
outside the school walls. You are both in agreement, so we will move | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
on. The Financial Times, Osborne tightens net on takes havens. I | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
don't know. There has been a lot of this throughout the years. We'll | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
clampdown. Is there anything in it that you think is a good idea? To | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
give him credit, George Osborne is really shifting the Government's | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
policy on this. Before, you had to prove that someone had an intention | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
to evade tax before you could prosecute them. He is changing that | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
and saying ` even if you didn't know what you were doing was illegal, you | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
still risk criminal prosecution. I think it is a big step forward in | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
terms of prosecuting tax evasion. The point that the article makes, | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
rightly, is we hear even more about benefit fraud in the papers a and in | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
our political debates yet the amount lost from the exchequer to benefit | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
fraud is about 1% to the amount lost on tax evasion. He is right to crack | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
down and if I may say so, politically sensible. It brings | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
money into the Treasury and is on the side of the ordinary person. | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
Will it succeed? Absolutely. That's the problem. I wouldn't sayesque | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
kraing down. I think he is using a lot of words about this. He is using | :06:43. | :06:49. | |
` this article used words like "consult" and possibly have to | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
demonstrate." It sounds terribly long`winded. The thing about tax has | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
been that people have actually said that ` not a will the has been done. | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
However, if you think about small scale fraud a heck of a lot has been | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
done, like Jeremy sides with regards to benefits and other type of small | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
scale fraud. What is going to happen and this story is interesting ` they | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
are saying once we have cracked it we'll get billions. Well, don't hold | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
your breath basically. You are right the Chancellor has to follow`through | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
but making clear his intention can have an affect on people's | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
behaviour. People will be phoning up their lawyers and accountants. I | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
just don't think no`one is frightened because it all sounds so | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
lightweight. Where is the real heaviness here and the big guns? I | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
don't think anyone will be frightened. Same old, same old. You | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
need the nags law on your side. Unless everyone agrees it is | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
difficult, the tax haven will shift. This is part of an international | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
move. You are quite right to say the proof will be in the pudding. | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
Absolutely. On to the Mirror. And Dreda, why don't you start with | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
this. This is the Reeva Steenkamp story. It is one we have been | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
covering, the pus pus pis trial, of course, here `` the Oscar Pistorius | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
trial, of course, here on the BBC. The evidence being given, we can | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
only hear Oscar Pistorius's voice because he has elected not to be | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
televised but it is gripping, isn't it? This is the problem. There are | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
lots of problems I think with this. One of the things that we use words | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
like "gripping." This is a case about real people's lives. A woman | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
has been shot to death. We talk about it as if it is a thriller | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
almost. We can't wait for the next instalment. I think the big problem | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
I have with this story is "enough already", really, if we are going to | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
be reporting about South Africa, why are we not reporting about the | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
thousands of miners on strike in South Africa? But we are reporting | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
about a murder trial, who knows, a judgment has to actually be made and | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
we are making it sensational and trivialising it. Do you think the | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
papers shouldn't be reporting it? Sno not in a way. Why is it on the | :09:08. | :09:14. | |
front page? If we are going to do a story about South Africa, why not | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
the miners? Don't we do that with any news story. I don't think so. We | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
are talking about thousands of people's lives and incomes with | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
regards to the miners' story and the impact on all of those children and | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
their families. And what are we doing? We are sensationalising a | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
trial about a woman, that's about real people. They are not fictional | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
characters. Jeremy, does the Economist do such? I don't think we | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
have written on this but I think that there is a substantive policy | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
issue in this, which is the question of cameras in court which has been | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
discussed recently in Britain, I think and some Government ministers | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
have suggested it would be a good thing to open up, to bring more | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
transparency into our legal system but as you say, the great risk is | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
that it ends up turning serious trials into soap operas by providing | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
so much material that broadcasters and papers can use. There has almost | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
been criticism at Prime Minister's Questions and while on the subject | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
of politics, let's switch to the Times. An amazing headlines, | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
"Liberal Democrats are pointless", according to one of the party's most | :10:24. | :10:30. | |
senior MPs. Who is this and why? You would think he had a book to sell, | :10:31. | :10:39. | |
which he does. This is the former minister who is very much on the | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
classical liberal side of the liberal Democrats. He is having a go | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
at Nick Clegg, saying he is selling out to the left of his party. The | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
Jeremy, this is a great betrayal in that he supported Nick Clegg because | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
he saw in him a classical liberal approach to government, which is to | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
say small tax, small government, getting out of people's we. But the | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
pragmatic reality for Nick Legos that he has a party that has both | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
that win, but also a more social democratic, left`leaning wing, and | :11:12. | :11:19. | |
he has to reconcile the two. Do you think this would be damaging or will | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
people not be that bothered? I don't think people will be that bothered. | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
When I read this story, I read that someone was personally unhappy with | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
somebody else. I am sure if I can make it up, they could say that. | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
Going on to the Daily Express. And the ongoing search for Malaysian | :11:39. | :11:47. | |
flight MH 37 stop `` 370. The Australian prime minister has not | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
quite said the black box has been found. He is saying they are getting | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
very close. This story has continued to dominate. It has, and even though | :11:57. | :12:03. | |
he did not say it, once again, you have this thriller element. If you | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
think about this story, it is tragic. We don't know what happened | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
to these people. The tragedy is probably that they are no longer | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
with us, but we are treating it almost like everyday, there is a new | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
episode. It's a bit like Dickens, years ago. So in the same way that | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
you were criticising the media for the Oscar Pistorius coverage, they | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
are overdoing it on this as well? Well, what is new? We are getting | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
nearer to the black box. How many times do we have to hear that they | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
are detecting sound? Once again, remember that these were real people | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
who have got families out there. We need to think about how we deal with | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
emotional things and trauma for people. I hope we have found the | :12:50. | :12:56. | |
black box. Jeremy? This was always bound to be a big story, simply | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
because of the mystery surrounding it. It would be hard to resist it as | :13:00. | :13:08. | |
a newspaper editor. Thank you both very much for your input this | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
evening. That is it for the papers. I hope we will be back at 11:30pm | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
for a follow`up. But stay with us on BBC News. At 11, we will have the | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
latest on the man accused of the Omagh bombing and the 29th death is. | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
Next, Sportsday. | :13:26. | :13:29. |