:00:00. > :00:00.Nigeria in a friendly before the World Cup. That is all in Sportsday
:00:00. > :00:26.in 15 minutes. Welcome to the Papers. With me are
:00:27. > :00:31.Jenni Russell of the Times, and a writer from the Daily Telegraph. We
:00:32. > :00:36.are going to start with an image of Maya Angelou, dominating the front
:00:37. > :00:39.page of the Independent. The Bank of England committee that says interest
:00:40. > :00:45.rates has told the Financial Times that the bank needs to start raising
:00:46. > :00:49.rates sooner rather than later. The Daily Telegraph has more on the row
:00:50. > :00:58.engulfing the Lib Dems. Vince Cable is implicated in a coup. The
:00:59. > :01:05.Guardian has the same story, alongside a photo of Maya Angelou.
:01:06. > :01:09.The Metro is claiming that the EU tax burden from Britain may rise by
:01:10. > :01:15.half ?1 billion because of the crisis in Ukraine. The Daily Mail
:01:16. > :01:18.goes with Lib Dems in meltdown. There is also a selfie taken by
:01:19. > :01:25.Susannah Reid of herself and Tom Cruise. The Times says British girls
:01:26. > :01:31.are now the fattest in Europe, saying peer pressure to eat fast
:01:32. > :01:38.food was partly to blame. The Scotsman has more on the war of
:01:39. > :01:41.words between the yes and no camps. We are going to start with the story
:01:42. > :01:47.that is dominating a lot of the papers, Neil. The Lib Dems. The Lib
:01:48. > :01:53.Dems in meltdown, according to the Daily Mail. This is, fortunately
:01:54. > :02:00.perhaps will Nick Clegg, the guy whose head is on the block, it has
:02:01. > :02:04.turned into something of a screaming match between Lord Oakeshott, the
:02:05. > :02:07.man who commissioned these apparently terrible polls, very
:02:08. > :02:13.disloyal thing to do, commissioning polls before an election, and Vince
:02:14. > :02:20.Cable, whose knowledge of said polls is under consideration. So, Vince
:02:21. > :02:26.Cable is now saying, we have researched this since last time we
:02:27. > :02:29.were on air, he is saying that he knew a poll had been conducted in
:02:30. > :02:40.his own constituency, and one in Wales, `` Wells, which is a
:02:41. > :02:44.constituent of his Parliamentary Secretary, but had no idea that one
:02:45. > :02:50.had been conducted in the Clegg's constituency. You sound sceptical
:02:51. > :02:56.about that? Even no such direct information was given at the time,
:02:57. > :03:04.it seems enormously unlikely that two and two wouldn't have been put
:03:05. > :03:06.together. I don't know if it seems unlikely so much as whether Lord
:03:07. > :03:09.Oakeshott is directly contradicting Vince Cable. Lord Oakeshott says
:03:10. > :03:14.that he did know that the polls had been conducted, I don't know whether
:03:15. > :03:17.he is saying that he knew about it beforehand, but also crucially that
:03:18. > :03:21.Vince Cable you what the results were some weeks ago. Vince Cable
:03:22. > :03:28.says he has no knowledge of the surveys, which period of time is he
:03:29. > :03:37.referring to? This is very like " I did not have sex with that woman" ,
:03:38. > :03:40.and " I did not inhale" . This is pointing to potentially a disastrous
:03:41. > :03:44.election night for the Lib Dems. Why would you want to be the leader of
:03:45. > :03:55.that party? You would perhaps want to wait or someone else to carry the
:03:56. > :04:00.can in 2015, and then take over. You sound like a much better potential
:04:01. > :04:10.plotter! Something like members of Gordon Brown's cabinet. There was
:04:11. > :04:15.almost a leadership who, but then they realised... This might not look
:04:16. > :04:19.good for Ed Miliband, but you have an article in the Times tomorrow
:04:20. > :04:23.suggesting that he should be worried. He/she be very worried
:04:24. > :04:32.about his own position, because no party has ended up winning if this
:04:33. > :04:36.happens. That is the position that Labour over in right now. The party
:04:37. > :04:40.around Ed Miliband are worried, because they think he is a good man,
:04:41. > :04:45.a courageous leader, but he is not cutting through. They are also very
:04:46. > :04:51.anxious that he, who is much less popular than his party on the
:04:52. > :04:56.doorsteps, has been running what is essentially a semi` presidential
:04:57. > :05:01.campaign, and that has paid off badly with the voters. Where is the
:05:02. > :05:06.Shadow Cabinet? They want to be playing a part, they are the ones
:05:07. > :05:10.who look normal. OK, but they weren't completely wiped out by the
:05:11. > :05:17.recent elections, it wasn't as bad as some people had suggested. We
:05:18. > :05:19.have Lord Ashcroft's own polling in his marginal constituency,
:05:20. > :05:27.suggesting that Labour are far ahead. We also have Ukip taking
:05:28. > :05:33.potential votes away from the Tories. There is some good stuff out
:05:34. > :05:38.there for labour, isn't a? We also have economic growth and the year to
:05:39. > :05:43.go before the election. They always fall behind, because there is more
:05:44. > :05:48.good news. One shadow Cabinet member said if we carry on on this
:05:49. > :05:54.trajectory we will lose big`time. There is no message of hope from a
:05:55. > :05:59.relevant. He needs to learn this from the Obama campaign, hope and
:06:00. > :06:03.aspiration. All of his policies are about state intervention for people
:06:04. > :06:06.who can't take care of themselves, and that is not the majority of
:06:07. > :06:14.voters, particularly in marginal constituency. Energy prices and so
:06:15. > :06:18.on, that has resonated? People are doing OK, who can pay their
:06:19. > :06:23.electricity bill, that is the vast majority of people, that policy
:06:24. > :06:26.doesn't matter. It is not a question of whether the economy is doing
:06:27. > :06:29.well, the price of their house is going up, they are feeling
:06:30. > :06:36.prosperous, that is more important to people. There is a big part of
:06:37. > :06:40.the electorate that it won't care for the message that is going at the
:06:41. > :06:47.moment. The big danger for Ed Miliband, because he grew up as the
:06:48. > :06:52.child of Marxist intellectuals, he became used to being part of an
:06:53. > :06:58.unlike group. I think he may be too comfortable with the idea that they
:06:59. > :07:02.are not popular now, but somehow everyone will see the light and
:07:03. > :07:06.share labour's view as the electoral cycle proceed. People don't do that,
:07:07. > :07:09.politics doesn't work like that. You have to make them believe `` Recep
:07:10. > :07:22.Tayyip Erdogan labour. On to the Financial Times. Everyone
:07:23. > :07:28.knows interest rates will rise at some point, the question is when, by
:07:29. > :07:35.how much, and how fast? If you are going to raise interest rates, Mark
:07:36. > :07:38.Carney, do it very slowly. Which means start very soon. That is what
:07:39. > :07:43.someone in the Monetary Policy Committee has said. This will also
:07:44. > :07:46.have a big effect on the election, because Mark Carney has made it
:07:47. > :07:50.clear that he doesn't want to start raising interest rates before wages
:07:51. > :07:54.start going up, and real wages are still not rising faster than
:07:55. > :07:58.inflation, so the problem is, the housing market is overheating, so
:07:59. > :08:01.perhaps they should raise interest rates. But then people can't afford
:08:02. > :08:04.their mortgages, and you don't want a lot of repossessions before the
:08:05. > :08:13.election, if you are this government. Exactly! It is all
:08:14. > :08:16.political. I don't get much credit for Gordon Brown, but he did make
:08:17. > :08:22.the Bank of England independent. Their mandate is to keep inflation
:08:23. > :08:26.at 2%, that is their only mandate. If inflation doesn't go above that,
:08:27. > :08:32.I know he winged addresses, but his actual mandate is inflation at 2%,
:08:33. > :08:39.and that is roughly where it is `` window dresses. One of the things he
:08:40. > :08:42.took over was that he would make sure that unemployment fell below 7%
:08:43. > :08:47.and that wage rates were rising higher than inflation. He has a
:08:48. > :08:52.broader perspective, which is a help of the economy on the whole, and how
:08:53. > :08:57.it affects everyone. He must have agreed that with George Osborne
:08:58. > :09:07.before he took the job. I think it will be difficult for rates to rise
:09:08. > :09:11.while inflation is 1.7%. We have all this talk about house prices racing
:09:12. > :09:18.out of control in London. That should be addressed by mortgage
:09:19. > :09:22.prices and inflation. A lot for Mark Carney to ponder. Let's go to the
:09:23. > :09:27.Independent. We discussed the widening gap between rich and poor.
:09:28. > :09:33.I would like to focus instead on Maya Angelou. If you are always
:09:34. > :09:39.trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be. That is
:09:40. > :09:46.a quote from Maya Angelou. Obviously an incredibly inspirational figure.
:09:47. > :09:49.I think mercifully it seems that she didn't suffer a great deal at the
:09:50. > :09:54.end. She was posting on Facebook as late as Monday as this week, so
:09:55. > :09:59.mercifully the end came quite quickly when it came. Obviously, a
:10:00. > :10:20.figure who has bestrode so many different areas. Obviously a poet, a
:10:21. > :10:24.serial autobiographer, starting with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, but
:10:25. > :10:27.going on to be an actress, reading poetry and Bill Clinton's
:10:28. > :10:37.inauguration. Barack Obama said she is one of the brightest lights in
:10:38. > :10:47.his life. It is interesting, I was interviewing Bonnie Greer, and I
:10:48. > :10:53.asked what Maya Angelou's legacy was. And she said, she was proud of
:10:54. > :10:57.being a woman, in black Hummer she was proud of her past and overcoming
:10:58. > :11:09.that. She was proud to be who she was. Basically, she celebrated
:11:10. > :11:15.humanity, and that is part of her brilliance. It is amazing that you
:11:16. > :11:20.can go from being raped at the age of seven by her mother's boyfriend,
:11:21. > :11:23.who was killed in retaliation, and then she stayed mute for the next
:11:24. > :11:29.five years because she thought her voice had killed her rapist. To go
:11:30. > :11:33.from that to being everything that she was, Jesse Jackson said she was
:11:34. > :11:39.a Renaissance woman, and that is literally true. She had a rebirth,
:11:40. > :11:49.and she went on to lead such a flourishing life after a devastating
:11:50. > :11:53.start up of poverty and segregation. Can you imagine not seeing a word
:11:54. > :11:57.for five years when you are a kid, and then going on to write these
:11:58. > :12:01.amazing: , and seven autobiographies! A remarkable
:12:02. > :12:11.woman. We are going to go on to The Times. British girls have become the
:12:12. > :12:17.fattest in Europe. Neil and I read this and we immediately put away the
:12:18. > :12:22.chocolate bar we were eating. 29.2% of British girls under the age of 19
:12:23. > :12:27.now or overweight. We have one of the worst records in the entire
:12:28. > :12:31.world. It is only marginally better for boys, a quarter of them are
:12:32. > :12:35.overweight as well. We absolutely have to do something, and it has to
:12:36. > :12:45.be about the food industry, which pumps sugar into everything. I think
:12:46. > :12:48.this I think we do so much, that so many messages these days about the
:12:49. > :12:54.food industry or about peer pressure to eat fast food, but really just we
:12:55. > :12:58.have spineless parenting. People need to take responsibility for how
:12:59. > :13:02.they raise their children. If 30% of them are overweight or obese by the
:13:03. > :13:10.time they are 19 that is principally a problem with parenting. I really
:13:11. > :13:13.have for a start, I have had teenage children, and I can tell you you
:13:14. > :13:17.have very little control over what they eat by the time they are 12. My
:13:18. > :13:20.daughter is slender, but the second thing is they are surrounded by an
:13:21. > :13:25.environment where almost anything that they eat at any time is going
:13:26. > :13:28.to be bad for them, I was in hospital the other day. What you see
:13:29. > :13:34.when you walk into the hospital? WHSmith. 300 different kinds of
:13:35. > :13:40.chocolate bar, and not a single thing that you could describe as
:13:41. > :13:43.healthy. In your household, my guess is that there was fruit and
:13:44. > :13:50.vegetables, and you took care to make sure there were meals that are
:13:51. > :13:57.balanced. I can afford expensive food, and eating well is
:13:58. > :14:01.expensive... Eating well is more expensive than eating unhealthily?
:14:02. > :14:03.Yes it is. Get a lot more calories out of a Mars bar than you do out of
:14:04. > :14:39.an apple and a stick of celery. There seems to have been some kind
:14:40. > :14:46.of leak from the government. This is to replace Lord Patten. I worry that
:14:47. > :14:52.yet again, we will have somebody at the helm of the BBC who has no
:14:53. > :14:57.experience in broadcasting. This is what I write about and those of us
:14:58. > :15:05.who are friendly critics of the BBC and want the BBC to be strong, I
:15:06. > :15:11.worry that the dot this is where Patten came unstuck. It was not
:15:12. > :15:16.political affiliation, it was that he didn't get how the news
:15:17. > :15:22.operation, particularly when the stable problem was at large. And
:15:23. > :15:26.understanding the pressures that specifically affect the BBC in the
:15:27. > :15:31.wake you don't see with other broadcasters. Let's get the final
:15:32. > :15:36.story that is the Telegraph. Cynics are more likely to develop all
:15:37. > :15:41.timers. Which means everyone who has been on this programme, including
:15:42. > :15:47.me, is in trouble. I'm acidic! I am a sceptic. It is completely
:15:48. > :15:52.different. This is the most important new story today. It is
:15:53. > :15:56.absolutely riveting. 1500 people filled out a questionnaire and those
:15:57. > :16:00.who agreed with statements like, I think most people would like to get
:16:01. > :16:04.ahead, it is safer to trust nobody and most people will use you aren't
:16:05. > :16:13.fairly worth three times more likely to develop dementia than those
:16:14. > :16:19.others. You'll make it means that we have to start being nice and we will
:16:20. > :16:27.live long and happy lives. I am not a clinical psychologist. Really?
:16:28. > :16:34.There are different pathways in the brain. If you focus with mindfulness
:16:35. > :16:42.meditation, at which I am a great advocate, meditation reinforces the
:16:43. > :16:46.approach pathways which are key to mental health. My guess is that
:16:47. > :16:51.these people, the cynics, have been doing their fight or flight version
:16:52. > :16:57.pathways just a little bit too much. Very interesting. We will have to
:16:58. > :17:01.edit there, unfortunately. We will all be positive on this programme
:17:02. > :17:06.from now on. It has been great having you in. Thank you. Stay with
:17:07. > :17:24.us now, it is time for Sportsday. Hello and welcome to Sportsday. Our
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