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game, the latest from the World Snooker Championship, and a shock | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
for Ospreys in the Pro 12. That is all to come in 15 minutes on | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Sportsday after The Papers. Hello and welcome to our look ahead | :00:00. | :00:22. | |
to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me other | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
broadcaster Henry Bonsu and the former trade minister Lord Digby | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
Jones. The Metro is leading on the inquest into the death of Peaches | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
Geldof. The Express has decided to focus on a rise in house prices. The | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
Telegraph says dozens of grammar schools in England are planning to | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
discriminate against middle`class pupils when choosing admissions. The | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
housing bubble is now the brightest hazard light on the Bank of | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
England's dashboard according to the Financial Times. The Guardian is | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
leading on the refusal of barristers to represent defendants in protest | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
at legal aid cuts. The Mirror is reporting the apology from Jeremy | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
Clarkson following allegations that he used an offensive term. The Daily | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
Mail says Nick Clegg is blocking a crackdown on people who carry | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
knives. Interesting stories there. We will start with the Daily | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
Telegraph. Mr Jones. The new troubleshooter! We will talk about | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
that a little bit later. Middle`class pupils losing out on | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
grammar schools. What is this about? Thank you! The root out for so many. | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
Did you go to a grammar school? Yes. I was a scholarship boy at a | :01:35. | :01:41. | |
public school but much the same. It was the way out for kids who were | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
frankly bright, and with parents who gave them love and enthusiasm but no | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
money. It was the late Anthony Crossland, but the very living | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
Shirley Williams, both of whom dedicated themselves to destroying | :01:56. | :02:04. | |
this way for the not so well heeled bright kids getting a fabulous | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
education. So what is going on now? They have been under the cosh ever | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
since. For some reason, if you have done everything well in life, you | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
will achieve excellence, which is not true. The metropolitan elite are | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
saying that we can't have all these middle`class kids going to grammar | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
schools. Grammar schools are responding and saying, OK, we will | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
positively discriminate. These people will not go there. So if you | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
actually have moved into an area, if your parents might have bought a | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
house in a particular area because of a good school, if you are there | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
by accident of where you were born and what you do, you could be | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
discriminated against. It is an absolute disgrace. But why? Let's | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
leave the politics and socioeconomics out of it. It is just | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
not good for the country. The country needs as many aspiration of | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
the excellent pupils as they can possibly get. It has got to take on | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
Asia. You have been talking about poor kids and people from lower | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
income backgrounds. The fact is that Ofsted has said that grammar schools | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
in this country are stuffed full of middle`class children. Although | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
something like 16% of children are on free school meals, only 3% of | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
those that go to grammar schools are from a low income backgrounds where | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
the household is earning less than ?16,000 and there is a generational | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
waste of talent. What are we doing for those young people? The head of | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
this grammar school association says that people will not see much | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
difference, because we are not talking about huge numbers. This is | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
a scare story. It is the Daily Telegraph saying to its tribe, watch | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
out. Your kids and their aspirations will be destroyed here. We are | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
talking about a few hundred children. It might be factually | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
accurate that it is a tribal story but it could be true. So that is all | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
right then? It is about the skin. At the end of the day you have a kid in | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
a particular environment. It is not that good's fault but their parents | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
are middle`class and they will be denied an education because of | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
socialism. Hang on. Timeout! Has anyone got a mallet? ! But if the | :04:21. | :04:28. | |
facts are that there is such a tiny proportion of youngsters who are | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
from very underprivileged backgrounds, those getting free | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
school meals, going to grammar schools, then that has got to be | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
sorted out, hasn't it? So increase the number of grammar schools. That | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
is a big political decision. Exactly. This is about party | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
politics, not economics. This is about politics. Because socialism | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
will not allow it to happen, we are going to deny... Do we have a | :04:57. | :05:07. | |
socialist in the room? We do not. A libertarian in Government? Not as | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
libertarian as you. The better off in society have always had choice | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
and the poor never had. For some reason the way you give the poor | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
choice is to deny everybody else. It is not denying everyone. It is. If | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
you don't have the money to knock up a view more grammar schools, what do | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
you do? You have got the money but you have not got the political will | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
to do so. Let's move on, please, to the Guardian. Fraud trials in | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
jeopardy as lawyers rebel. A case has collapsed because of barristers | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
protesting about the cuts in legal aid. This is a big story because the | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
Government wants to cut the legal aid bill by a million. And | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
barristers taking on these cases will see their fees cut by 30%. | :05:56. | :06:03. | |
Their words demonstrations earlier this week `` there were | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
demonstrations earlier this year. And now a landmark fraud case, it | :06:07. | :06:14. | |
has been stopped by Judge Leonard. He is not going to give the | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
prosecution any time... In fact he is closing the case because the five | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
men accused could not be guaranteed fair representation because no | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
barristers wanted to take on the case. They searched high and wide | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
and they could not find anyone to take it on. In fact the person who | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
pushed this in the court was Alex Cameron QC, who defended one of the | :06:35. | :06:41. | |
defendants free of charge. I was a lawyer for 20 years and I come from | :06:42. | :06:49. | |
the spirit that says that even somebody caught red`handed... Even | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
those guys that killed Lee Rigby, you could not be even more caught | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
red`handed than them, they are entitled in my view to free, | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
independent, legal representation. That is the hallmark of a good | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
society. I don't care who you are. You are entitled to bed. This | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
Government is saying it will deny people that because it will put | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
barristers in the position where they can't afford to do the job. Is | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
that really the case? It is. The public perception is that they all | :07:22. | :07:29. | |
owe so much `` all earning so much. The reality is that many solicitors | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
are not earning anything at all. They are representing the challenged | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
in society. There are two aspect of this that very important it is | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
irrelevant. I think they are appealing to their tribe, like the | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
Daily Telegraph, but it is irrelevant if the Prime Minister's | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
brother is involved. Absolutely irrelevant. It is a journalistic | :07:54. | :08:01. | |
point. It is appealing to the tribe. It is challenging the Prime Minister | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
with his own brother. But that is not relevant. The Guardian is right | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
and on sound ground when they say these people are not getting | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
representation because people are being denied justice because of | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
that. And also, in a very concentrated fraud trial, it is time | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
to look at the way we administer justice. You cannot expect 12 good | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
men and women to take on complicated stuff. There are several big fraud | :08:30. | :08:37. | |
cases down the line. Today it is fraud, tomorrow criminal cases. You | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
probably need to move towards two or three judges, not one, sitting there | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
in some sort of trial. All right. Let's go on to the Daily Express. | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
This is their take on rising house prices. The record rise in house | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
prices, rising at the fastest rate since 2007, as values soar by ?1500 | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
per month. The way they have written that, one might think that it is a | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
good thing. You might think that. They have been banging on about this | :09:10. | :09:16. | |
since the credit crunch. About 2007. They have been trying to talk up the | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
market for such a long time but those of us in the housing market | :09:20. | :09:26. | |
who did buy in 2005 to 2007, taking a punt, many of us who bought | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
outside the South East bubble, are still in negative equity, in | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
Birmingham, Newcastle, so it is a tale of two countries. They are | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
trying to talk this up but I suspect we will see what happened last time. | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
Last time prices rose this past was June, 2007, just before the crunch | :09:44. | :09:54. | |
and the collapse. `` this fast. And a similar story, Bank of England | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
fears over property spiral. They are looking at the glass being half | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
empty. I did not think I would agree with Henry then! I think he is spot | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
on. There is one country called London, possibly a bit wider, | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
possibly within the M25, and both of those stories are absolutely right. | :10:16. | :10:22. | |
If you go outside. Out to Birmingham, Liverpool, Leeds, | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
Newcastle, Cardiff, Belfast, this recovery is big and sustainable and | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
it has nothing to do with house prices. It has everything to do with | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
all the other big drivers of an economy. What they are saying in the | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
Financial Times is that if you have property prices and if you have | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
information and you begin the bubble, and you are quite right, | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
Henry, you get to the point where you have to do something about it, | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
which can only mean interest rate rises. The moment you have that, | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
forget the housing bubble. You choke off access to capital for others. | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
One of them is consumers, meaning retail goes down, but the other is | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
business of course. And don't gloss over that. If you have got a small | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
business then getting back into work and suddenly being charged twice as | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
much for it because Mrs McGuinness's has has gone up in | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
Kensington, you have a problem. `` house. I agree! You have agreed on | :11:21. | :11:28. | |
what seems to be blatantly clear to a lot of people that there is | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
clearly a huge rise in housing prices in the South East and this | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
area is doing particularly well. It has not quite caught on in other | :11:36. | :11:43. | |
places. It has not. OK, but it is catching on. But if there is a crash | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
in London, that will affect everywhere else anyway. There will | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
not be a crash in London. Far too dynamic. I am not too sure. I can | :11:52. | :12:03. | |
not take a headline seriously when it has the... It might be a false | :12:04. | :12:13. | |
bottom. The false fess! I am far more worried about what the | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
FT is saying! That was so pompous of you! | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
But true! One final story ` the Metro. Peaches ` the final echo of | :12:25. | :12:32. | |
her mother. Very, very sad. I remember, didn't the morning after | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
she was found dead, the picture of her and her mother taken many years | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
ago. A lot of people responded by being angry with the Metro, thinking | :12:41. | :12:47. | |
it was tasteless. In this case people did wonder if she did take | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
something. Her friend are saying we should remember the former wild | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
child who became a responsible mother. It would appear from text | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
cog report that she may have taken heroin. I have two takes. Kids are | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
dying of heroin overdose every day. They don't get on the front of the | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
Metro. The reason is because who she is, not what she did. The good ` if | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
it is the right word out of this ` this f this is a wake`up call... But | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
it never is. We all hope it could be. You will be | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
back in an hour and look at some more of the stories behind the | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
headlines. Many thanks for that. Gerry Adams remains in police | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
custody. I will speak to Ian Paisley Junior, that will be live from | :13:46. | :13:47. | |
Belfast. Now time for Sportsday. Hello. Good evening welcome to | :13:48. | :14:08. | |
Sportsday. The headlines: Chelsea assistant manager, Rui Faria, has | :14:09. | :14:17. | |
been given a six`match stadium ban. Batting coach Graham Gooch becomes | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
the latest casualty in a new era for English cricket. Mark Selby | :14:24. | :14:24. |