15/04/2014 The Papers

investigation. As the British swimming Championships come to a

close, we will round up another record`breaking day in Glasgow.

Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing

us tomorrow. With me are Elizabeth Orcutt, deputy picture editor at the

Times, and Oliver Wright, Whitehall editor at the Independent. Time for

a look at the front pages. The Metro is leading on a report by the UN

boys' club. The Independent focuses boys' club. The Independent focuses

on a report by a food bank charity that claims nearly one million

people in Britain rely on handouts to eat. The growing number of those

depending on food parcels in the UK is also the splash in the Mirror.

The Guardian's main story is the crisis in the Ukraine, though its

main picture shows fans at the commemoration for those killed at

Hillsborough 25 years ago. The Telegraph's main story looks at the

health service, which it says is stretched to breaking point. The

Mail front page features more allegations of a Lib Dem cover up

over the Cyril Smith scandal. The Times leads with claims that UKIP

members have been blocked from raising questions over the party's

use of EU funding. And the front page of the Sun shows a picture of a

12 and 13`year`old couple, who they say have become Britain's youngest

parents. The i has a pig of Liverpool fans raising their scarves

in honour of those who died. `` a picture of Liverpool fans. The UK

has the sixth largest economy in the world and has more millionaires than

ever before, but that picture is of someone who is not sharing in the

uptick, one would say, in the economy. It's a very arresting

image. It solves a tearful child. The picture is not a live picture,

it has been sourced with an agency. The story is about foodbanks and I

cannot think of any mother who would not go hungry in order to feed her

child. It's arresting but you wonder if it really reflects the story.

Particularly if this child has not been photographed by the journalist

doing the investigation. It is from an agency. All newspapers do that,

don't they? Yes, but we try not to do that when it is a splash story or

a serious story. We will use illustrative pictures but in an

ethical way. In an ethical way? LAUGHTER. We will say that it is a

muddled picture. I will look out for that. `` a picture with a model.

Oliver, your paper decided not to use a photograph for this particular

story and went with Ukraine instead. You think that your headline is

arresting enough, clearly. We serve a different market from the Mirror,

and we are trying to have several different stories on the front page

of things you might like to read in the paper. Occasionally, we will

dedicate the entire front page to a story but on a day like today, what

is happening in Ukraine is very important. We have the most

important domestic story, as we see it, of the day and the most

important international story. But the Mirror has the big blowout of

this one thing. Regardless of how we present the various stories... It is

a powerful story. And not one that the government will want after

spending weeks trying to trumpet the good news about the economy to the

extent that other ministers are being told that they are not allowed

to speak out. They want to get the message out that the economy is

getting better. And then we have this report suggesting that the

number of people using foodbanks has gone up from 346,000 people last

year to almost 1 million this year, and that is not great, and it shows

the divide between the people for whom the economy is improving and

those people who are on benefits and for whom it is definitely not. And

this story as well, it is Ukraine. And a crisis there that is reaching

the point where it could explode, frankly, now that the Ukrainian

authorities have decided to send their own forces into retake parts

of the east. And which way will it go? Who knows? The Sun.

Interesting, this, Elizabeth, because the Sun obviously has to

cover this story. It's a huge story. One of the most important stories of

the day, the commemorative service at Anfield for the 25th anniversary

of the Hillsborough disaster, but there is an interesting story behind

some of the pictures that are coming out of Liverpool and the Sun itself.

Certainly, some of the pictures we have seen have been coming through

the wires since this afternoon. Some of them could not have been

published by the Sun. They have a full set here. But certainly, some

of the providers did not want the Sun to publish them and that goes

back to 25 years ago, when... The Sun's infamous headline and its

publication of some of the allegations that were being made by

the police force in Sheffield, concerning what had happened at

Hillsborough. Clearly, that anger still lingers in Merseyside. Is it

local agencies today that were saying that this cannot be published

in the Sun? To be honest, I don't know. But possibly, it was pictures

coming out of Anfield it's itself, because they have their own

photographers and their own agencies. I could not say exactly.

There are still some people who refuse to purchase the Sun. You

cannot get it in some places. Newsagents won't stop it. Does this

caption here, the photographs, the child, does that get across what

happened, do you think? Because of any potential restrictions that may

have been on the Sun? That does look like a fair representation of what

happened. The ground was packed full of people, there was one minute's

silence, when people stood with their scarves in the air and you can

see that. The image of the little boy who never knew his uncle and

grandfather, who were both killed. You can see the sculpture of the 96

nights, you can understand what that is. `` lights. I think they have

done a good job. And the inquest into those who died has been

reopened. A huge and very important moment for the people, obviously.

The inquest will go on for quite some time but it's extraordinary

that 25 years on, there are still very fundamental questions and

disagreements on things which have not yet been solved. You can only

imagine what it would be like if it was your father or grandfather who

had been killed. This very long fight to get to what they hope will

be the truth. The truth, indeed. The Metro. There is an obvious reason

why I will ask you this question and not Oliver. Boys' club Britain? The

world's most sexist country? What is the story and do you agree? This is

the woman appointed by the UN as a special consultant to the UN and she

has come to the UK and she has done 14 days worth of intense

investigation and she says we are boys' club Britain. That we live in

a very sexist society. It has echoes of the Brazil not... LAUGHTER `` the

Brazil nut, which is how some of the papers referred to her, but... Do we

live in a sexist society? Yes, there are still vestiges of that, but

equally, it is lastly improved from when I started my career 25 years

ago. All this lady had to do was look at the make`up of the current

Cabinet. There are more parliamentarians `` female

parliamentarians in Afghanistan than in the UK. I'm not sure how

seriously we should take this after 14 days of research. I'm a bit

sceptical of these... It's quite good publicity. It's a great talking

point. But if you are going to look at an issue that is important, that

is diffuse, that is serious, you need more than 14 days. It's almost

like journalism, isn't it? You spend more time digging up this story than

most of us do eating up other stories. But she asks, it's not so

in your face in other countries. She says she is not so sure about what

gives rise to such sixes portrayal of women and girls in this country

in particular. She is talking about advertising and television. Scantily

clad ladies flogging cars. It happens a lot. Yes, but in other

countries in Europe. France and Italy. It does not seem that much

different but maybe it is in her view. Well, she's from the UN, so

there you go. UKIP blocked questions over party's EU funding. As UKIP

rises higher and higher in the polls, the... How shall we put this?

The microscope is going to be on them friendly. This story is a

follow`up to this story that the Times ran. `` the microscope is

going to be on them forensically. Nigel Farage has accused the Times

of being an established paper which has a vendetta to get them. But

looking at this story in detail, I think that he has some serious

questions to answer. He claimed between ?15,000 and ?17,000 in 2013

on offices which were no bigger than 630 square feet. He did not pay any

rent on those offices. That ?17,000 did not include office equipment or

stationary or telephone charges. That's a lot of money to be playing

in business rate, to be paying in electricity... I think that he has

made a lot of MPs over the way they have misused or allegedly misused

expenses, so when anyone questions his expenses, surely it is in his

interests to explain it and show the receipts rather than say this is a

political attack and everyone is out to get him. This story is serious

enough for him to answer these questions will top first, he says he

has done nothing wrong and is willing to have an independent

auditor coming in. He also says he is consulting his lawyers. And that

is always an interesting phrase. Interestingly, the point Oliver

razors, he does talk about this conspiracy from the established

media. `` Oliver razors. It sounds like Sarah Palin, when the lightest

scrutiny was on her, and appealing to those people who do the

potentially a new and fresh candidate coming out of the blue and

upsetting the Apple cart. It is a tactic that some people might

actually find appealing. Yes, but there is more to this story, which

is that people have gone on the record as saying that when they

tried to raise this question about these figures not adding up, they

were blocked. UKIP blocking questions over party's EU funding.

Yes, I think Oliver is right. Fine, let's bring in the accountants and

have some transparent he and see where the money went. Now, very

briefly, North Korea fails to smile at jokes. A barbershop that poked

fun at the North Korean leader's haircuts. LAUGHTER. Is it poking fun

or saying he has a great haircut, come in and have it done? This is

great fun. This is a small hairdressing salon in Ealing, I

believe, who put a poster on `` in their window of Kim Jong Un. And he

has quite a nice haircut, in fact. And the men in Black came in when

they saw it. Possibly, that level of responsibility is so ingrained that

they thought... I cannot help but feel that if this had been in North

Korea, it would not just have been a couple of men coming in. It's a bit

of fun. Thank you for coming in. Sportsday is next.