05/05/2014 The Papers

fascinating world Snooker final. In Madrid, players have gathered to

remember Elena Baltacha, who has died at the age of 30. Hello and

welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us

tomorrow. With me are Fay Schlesinger, home editor at the

Times, and Sarah O'Connor, who's economics correspondent at the FT.

We will be delving inside in a moment, but let's run through the

front pages. The Daily Express has news of a super pill, that experts

say will save millions of lives and add years to life. The Daily

Telegraph says according to a national review, hundreds of asthma

deaths could be prevented and is blaming GPs and health services. The

Metro is carrying a photo of Elena Baltacha, a shining light of tennis.

One in seven hospital beds is occupied by someone who was

diabetic, according to the Daily Mail. They say it is costing the NHS

?10 billion per year. The Financial Times is dominated by the takeover

bid for AstraZeneca from Pfizer. The Times say that top doctors condemn

shocking standards of care. The Guardian has details of a

ministerial letter which the papers claim could mean jobseekers losing

their benefits if they don't take zero our jobs. The Sun talks about

the changing face of Britain, and how a third of the population could

be nonwhite by 2051. We will turn to the Sun first.

Melting pot UK is their headline. This is based on a report from the

policy exchange, a rightleaning think tank, who have crunched some

numbers and done some forecasting, and they think that by 2051 a third

of the population in England and Wales will be nonwhite. That would

be quite a big change from now, and would change the face of Britain.

Not only in that sense, but it probably means we will be more

religious, and there will be lots of interesting political implications

as well. This is a 2`pronged story. There is nuance about how society

will be made up, and sociological trends, for the politicians, they

will be scouring through it and looking at what they need to do. In

2010, the Tories got among the ethnic minority voters, and got

16%, compared to 36 overall. It shows the massive distrust of the

Tories among ethnic minorities. In the Asian community, there is an

overrepresentation of small business owners and entrepreneurs, which are

areas that the Tories claim to be fully behind. Yet they are not

managing to crack the vote. You can't just lumped together ethnic

minorities, of course you can't, there could be some who been here

for several generations, newly arrived, here for lots of different

reasons, or who are living in the North of Scotland. There is a huge

range, but there is a problem that the Tories have in this area, and

Labour are doing much better. We know that Lynton Crosby, the

election guru for the Tories, has possibly said, don't bother with

ethnic minorities. You need to appeal to middle`class Britain, get

the economy going, don't be distracted by these things. This

research is and that come 2050, with this trend continuing, the Tories

will lose out. There is a quote saying that the Tories will be no

more unless they manage to crack this area. It reminds me of the

Democrats in the US. The Republicans have that idea, don't worry about

the poor, just focus on the core voters, and they were hit very badly

by this. They were pinning all of their electoral hopes of a group

that is diminishing. The cover is the headline is very unbiased. It is

a fact, and I just had a tweet from somebody who watched the 1030

version of this programme, saying they were concerned by the Daily

Telegraph headline. The headline is very balanced, that there is an idea

that they are undermining English identity, figures ethnic minorities

tend to see themselves as British, rather than English. I'm not

particularly bothered by that, but there is a line being walked. Some

of this will play into the hands of Ukip. Ukip's beef is with

immigrants, and people who come to this country as they say to take our

jobs. It is fascinating to look at for other reasons. Education is far

better through some minorities, like the Indian community and Bangladeshi

community, better than some white boys. It is necessary to be careful

to make generalisations. Let's turn our attention to the times. `` the

Times. Hundreds of asthmatic and is dying needlessly, that is their top

story. I think this is genuinely a shocking story for many people,

because most of us know somebody who has asthma to a greater or lesser

extent. It is such a common illness, especially among children. You see

kids at school, you feel like loads of them have inhalers. The idea that

1200 people die each year from asthma, including 40 children, it is

quite shocking. If we were on a par with other Western European

countries, you could say, well, we are doing our best. We are doing

worse than most countries in Western Europe, so we are obviously doing

something wrong. This study says that what is happening is that

children or adults are going to hospital with an asthma attack, and

they are sent home without any checks being done, and a large

proportion of those who die from asthma attacks have been to hospital

in the past month and are not being monitored. They have been given an

inhaler, and that is it. I think this year is the first time that

schools are allowed to keep spare inhalers. There was a ban on that,

but now they can. We are making steps forward, but it makes you

wonder. You have a good point about the view of the NHS from the US.

Stories like this play into the idea that socialised healthcare is a

terrible thing, because of things like this. Session with cutting

costs instead of giving the best care. Most British people would

think, that is nonsense, the NHS is fantastic. When you see things like

that, the Royal College of physicians finds that one of the

main reasons that two thirds of these deaths are preventable is that

doctors are trying to cut costs and are prescribing the wrong kinds of

inhalers to the wrong patients. Also, if you have asthma, you may be

seen by a nurse, and they are saying that sometimes those health

professionals don't have the right level of experience or expertise.

There are other story, which will hopefully have people jumping for

joy, a new scanner could end check`in misery. This is by the

science correspondence, and it is all about bottles of liquid at the

airport and all these things. There are 65 airports, including Heathrow

and Gatwick, that are trialling this new kind of scanner, which is using

rum and spectroscopy. `` Rahman spectroscopy. It is a way of

scanning liquids to make sure that they don't have explosives in them.

The limit on our liquids comes from the 2010 bombing attempt. Isn't it

so annoying way you go through airports and you have to strip off

and put all of your things in bags, and I was saying earlier that once

brought peanut butter back from a trip abroad, and they confiscated it

because they said it could be a liquid. They do need to find ways,

if we are going to show Britain to be open for business, what you don't

want his queues of people, and it feels like it is getting worse

rather than better. It will let people's lives a lot easier, and a

lot of goodwill will come from it if it works. I think it is the best

story I've heard all year! It is very exciting. You hear so many

stories, I won't bore you with mine. The one group that is great for is,

think of all those cosmetic companies who have made a fortune

from selling cosmetics in tiny bottles `` it will be bad for them.

It will be the end of the special travel accessory rack. There is a

downside to every story. Let's turn our attention to the Guardian. We

mentioned this when we were doing the runthrough of the top stories.

Jobseekers told they must take zero our jobs. A suggestion that they

could lose their benefits if they refuse to take a zero hours job.

What do zero hours contracts mean? It is one where you have a contract

of employment with your employer, but they won't tell you how many

hours you will have. It could be zero, it could be 48, or whatever.

They won't commit to a certain number. The employer has a lot of

flexibility, and you have very little, because you need to be

available to work in case they send you a text message and say, we need

you tomorrow. They have been controversial, we have had a lot of

new data about them taking over the market. The change seems to be that

previously there was no obligation to take that kind of job because of

the potential pitfalls. There has been this exchange of letters, and

the Labour MP has raised the possibility that that may change. In

theory, these contracts can be very well defended, with the idea that

unemployment has been a big problem in this country, it has now come

down to 7%, but we have the tourism industry. It changes day today on

basis of the weather. If a theme park suddenly needs loads more

people for a gorgeous bank holiday weekend, they should have

flexibility to do that. The idea has always been that if you are a worker

you have the choice to take a zero hours or not. This suggests that you

do have to. I think the contract are defensible within this current

climate, but as we come out of recession it could become

problematic. Clearly, the tone of the story has put the cat among the

pigeons at the DWP, because they have released... Some people in the

Guardian have been very much against it for a long time. They headline

they are saying that jobseekers are told they must take them. That is

not actually what they are saying. The DWP is saying that it is not

that people will be forced, there will still be discretion, but it may

well be that a zero hours contract is a good opportunity. If an

employer is saying, if you have this contract you can't work or anyone

else, the DWP are saying in that case we wouldn't insist on it. The

department is giving themselves some flexibility, which I think is

understandable stock yellow this is happening at exactly the same time

as whether `` that they are talking about whether to ban the contract

altogether. It seems a bit confused. We have been covering this

story all evening, Boko Haram in Nigeria saying that the 270

schoolgirls snatched may well be sold as slaves in the marketplace.

Ghastly, really. There is a video that the Guardian have seen with a

man claiming to be a spokesman of Boko Haram, saying that women aren't

worth anything, that they shouldn't be in education, and that they are

no better than slaves. The frightening thing about this story

is the idea that the new front that this extremist organisation will

face, is about female education. In the developing world, female

education is exactly what we need to get rid of extremist groups like

this. That is what they are going to for, you will get mothers across the

developing world, and they will say, I could send my child will school

but if she is at risk of kidnap and I won't do that. The other thing

that is fascinating is the Twitter campaign around it. It really did

get picked up. I had friends who saw it on Twitter before they saw it in

newspapers, because I think newspapers were quite slow to get it

on the front page. Politically Nigeria, there has been a lot of

criticism of Goodluck Jonathan, the president, we saw today this

television press conference he made, which is one of the first

opportunities he has taken to comment on it. It has been three

weeks, and he has given no public statement. You can understand why

there has been huge anger in the country about why they aren't doing

more, and why they aren't questioning and arresting people who

are activists, rather than people who actually did it. There is a

strange twist, with the wife of Goodluck Jonathan suggesting that it

is a conspiracy campaign against her husband, and that it never actually

happened. We are going to talk about the Daily Mail, Tesco declaring war

on pound shops. You can have ten seconds. You get Premier League

footballers in pound shops, they are so popular. It goes with the idea

that we are not ashamed to shop at little shops, and it is the lasting

effect of the recession. We are starting to get richer again. You

would think that might move, and we would go back to Waitrose. At the

other end of the market, Waitrose is doing quite well, so it is

polarising. Tesco are going to trial 60 stores, and might increase to 300

with a pound I'll, and we will see how they do. That is giving you a

flavour of what you might find it tomorrow's papers. Do you stay with

us. We will have the latest on the abduction of those girls in Nigeria

`` do stay. In the meantime, it is time for