:00:00. > :00:00.Hodgson and Sir Bradley Wiggins admits he is unlikely to take part
:00:00. > :00:20.in the Tour de France. Hello, and welcome to our look ahead
:00:21. > :00:30.at what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. We are staying the full
:00:31. > :00:33.distance tonight with our guests David Williamson, the political
:00:34. > :00:39.editor of Western Mail, and the broadcaster and author Dreda Say
:00:40. > :00:44.Mitchell. The Independent has a striking image of a lone piper on
:00:45. > :00:49.Gold Beach at Arromanches. As the world remembers D`Day, what if
:00:50. > :00:54.anything have we learnt? The great escape, Bernard Jordan makes the
:00:55. > :00:57.front page of the Daily Mail. That story of the 89`year`old veteran who
:00:58. > :01:04.absconded from a care home to join his comrades in France is also on
:01:05. > :01:08.the front of Daily Mirror. The Times has Royal Marines waiting for
:01:09. > :01:14.landing vessels. Its headline is a Tory manifesto to end illiteracy.
:01:15. > :01:22.The Herald features a smiling picture over Celtic's new coach. The
:01:23. > :01:29.news that the Labour stalwart Peter Hain will step down makes the
:01:30. > :01:33.Western Mail. In the Financial Times is that Turkish authorities have
:01:34. > :01:37.been handed a list of people who are trying to travel to Syria to join
:01:38. > :01:45.the conflict. And, the Scotsman reflects the words of thanks from
:01:46. > :01:50.leaders across the world. Let's begin with a D`Day
:01:51. > :01:54.commemorations, of course. A number of very beautiful pictures make
:01:55. > :01:58.their way onto the front pages. The Independent is where we will start,
:01:59. > :02:04.with a lone piper playing on Gold Beach, has Royal Marines landing
:02:05. > :02:09.craft arrived at Arromanches. The headline, the world remembers, but
:02:10. > :02:15.what, if anything, have we learnt? A reminder, David, that diplomacy or
:02:16. > :02:17.diplomatic spats are still continuing on the beaches today
:02:18. > :02:20.because of the presence of world leaders who have all sorts of
:02:21. > :02:27.differences, yet to be resolved? Absolutely. What we are looking at
:02:28. > :02:31.really is a cauldron, will which has all the ingredients for something
:02:32. > :02:35.terrifying, whether it is the Ukrainian situation or whether we
:02:36. > :02:39.just look around the world to what is happening in the Pacific, where
:02:40. > :02:43.it seems to be that there is regional nationalism bubbling up.
:02:44. > :02:49.The language of violence has being used again. This is a reminder, it
:02:50. > :02:57.is one thing to whip up a population, it is another thing to
:02:58. > :03:00.try to bolster a political position because of a military adventure, but
:03:01. > :03:06.this is what happens when the Dragons are let out. People who have
:03:07. > :03:11.to slay the Dragons are brave men, we see a few of these genuine
:03:12. > :03:15.warriors. I kept thinking as we were talking earlier, we need to be
:03:16. > :03:19.talking about women as well. The nurses who went over not knowing the
:03:20. > :03:23.conditions they will be working in, knowing it was a field and that was
:03:24. > :03:33.about it. The horrors they had to deal with. Putin, Obama, Cameron, it
:03:34. > :03:39.can't be lost on them, with all the problems we are facing, what have we
:03:40. > :03:43.learnt? When I think about something like this, we have to definitely
:03:44. > :03:47.commemorate and come out, but there has to be a sense of truth when they
:03:48. > :03:52.talk as well, and a sense of honesty. These can't just the days
:03:53. > :03:56.of commemoration, they have to be springboards for real change in the
:03:57. > :03:59.world. I have to sound very cynical about whether leaders are going to
:04:00. > :04:06.be really making changes in the world. I see this as a day that when
:04:07. > :04:09.all these leaders leave and go back to their countries, do they once
:04:10. > :04:12.again get mired up in the Rhone national issues and look at other
:04:13. > :04:19.countries is not being friendly? `` their own. Those young men in
:04:20. > :04:29.particular, who are now in their 80s and 90s, those men in particular,
:04:30. > :04:34.and the women as well in support, who are remembered, not politicians.
:04:35. > :04:38.At the end of the day, after the commemorations, it is the
:04:39. > :04:42.politicians who will be picking up the reins and pulling people in
:04:43. > :04:45.different directions. One of the biggest conflict at the moment is
:04:46. > :04:49.going on in Syria, and that feels very isolated. I worry what is
:04:50. > :04:53.happening with Syria, and it just keeps going on and on, and every
:04:54. > :04:57.time we keep seeing these dramatic and terrible pictures from Syria,
:04:58. > :05:05.but actually what is being done to ensure that that conflict comes to
:05:06. > :05:12.an end? On D`Day, this is an unprecedented pooling of sovereign,
:05:13. > :05:15.with Australia and New Zealand riding into the rescue with the US
:05:16. > :05:19.and UK, and here we are so many decades on, and our complete
:05:20. > :05:29.inability to broker even ceasefires in Syria, and co`operation did not
:05:30. > :05:34.stop once war was won. The European Union was built, the United Nations
:05:35. > :05:39.was created, and in Britain the welfare state of solidarity. All
:05:40. > :05:43.those things do seem to have gone out of fashion. Is this an
:05:44. > :05:49.opportunity to actually on the true achievements of the veterans, by
:05:50. > :05:55.rebooting these ideas? That is an excellent way of putting it. But
:05:56. > :05:59.again, sorry, cynical, I don't think that will happen when they all get
:06:00. > :06:07.on their planes and go home. On a slightly lighter side of the D`Day
:06:08. > :06:10.commemorations, the great escape. A veteran skips a care home to join
:06:11. > :06:15.the tributes in France. And 89`year`old man, a former Royal Navy
:06:16. > :06:19.officer, Bernard Jordan, who sparked a full`scale police search by
:06:20. > :06:22.leaving his care home in Hove, because he had been told he couldn't
:06:23. > :06:27.go to the commemorations, but he went anywhere. I think it's
:06:28. > :06:31.fantastic, and when you dig deep to what he actually did, he said he was
:06:32. > :06:37.off for a walk in the park, and he hid his medals under his coat, and
:06:38. > :06:40.then he got on a coach to France. People were saying, you are not
:06:41. > :06:43.correct, all that strategic planning, and all the things he had
:06:44. > :06:49.to do, it really shows that he was up for it. Like I saw earlier, I
:06:50. > :06:52.wonder if anyone thought about the veterans who are in the care homes,
:06:53. > :06:57.and wonder if anyone thought of that. How are we going to get them
:06:58. > :07:04.to Normandy? Or was it left at to military organisations with veteran
:07:05. > :07:06.groups and families to get the veterans fair? I think sometimes
:07:07. > :07:13.older people who end up in care homes, in our British society they
:07:14. > :07:16.get forgotten. Just thinking as well, the experience it must have
:07:17. > :07:24.been to these people to actually stand on beaches that were once like
:07:25. > :07:35.something out of Tom Tate's Inferno. `` Dante's Inferno. To have
:07:36. > :07:38.participated in... I think it is very hard to even try to conceive of
:07:39. > :07:42.what those beaches must have been like. We have an image of beaches
:07:43. > :07:47.and see, and the ocean being relaxing, and sand and stone beaches
:07:48. > :07:50.being where you take your family. I think it is hard sometimes to
:07:51. > :07:55.conceive of what hell it must have been for those people. Some of the
:07:56. > :08:01.archive footage, it was so loud, with the noise, the bombardment, all
:08:02. > :08:05.that activity. To have seen all that alive, and have parachutists coming
:08:06. > :08:12.in from overhead, must have been quite overwhelming to the people of
:08:13. > :08:16.France. Let's move away from the D`Day commemorations. The Tories
:08:17. > :08:21.planning a manifesto pledge to end in literacy. Isn't it extraordinary
:08:22. > :08:27.in 2014 that we are still talking about this? This makes my teeth
:08:28. > :08:31.slightly grind together, as a former teacher and someone who does still
:08:32. > :08:35.teach in prisons and young offender institutes, and go into schools
:08:36. > :08:42.still as well. First of all, every child to read and write, the caption
:08:43. > :08:47.is almost a tape of the Labour literacy strategy. That is, every
:08:48. > :08:52.Child a reader, every child a writer. When I think of literacy, I
:08:53. > :09:00.think what parents don't understand is that the literacy test that
:09:01. > :09:03.children take in Year 6, when they are 11, is they are not sitting
:09:04. > :09:14.reading a book. It is copper hedging. They will be asked to read
:09:15. > :09:16.a number of texts, and asked to answer a number of competent and
:09:17. > :09:21.questions. It's not about whether they can read it, it's whether they
:09:22. > :09:25.understand. Some of those tests are bad, I'm not sure I would have
:09:26. > :09:33.reached the national level when I was 11. I will let you talk, David,
:09:34. > :09:40.because I have so much to say. My other big issue is, when people keep
:09:41. > :09:44.talking about education, the curriculum, all they talk about are
:09:45. > :09:48.English and mathematics. The curriculum was always meant to be
:09:49. > :09:53.broad and balanced, we need to be talking about other subjects. The
:09:54. > :09:56.arts at the moment, under the current administration, are going
:09:57. > :10:02.out the door. I will come due a moment, in a sentence, if you can,
:10:03. > :10:07.why are there still children who cannot read to the required
:10:08. > :10:14.standard? Children develop at different ages, lots of different
:10:15. > :10:18.strategies to get those children up to a particular level need to be put
:10:19. > :10:21.in place. I can think of some of my friends who couldn't read as well as
:10:22. > :10:24.me when I was 11, but when they were 13 they were outstripping me. You
:10:25. > :10:29.have to put in the development of children. We can't make a children
:10:30. > :10:32.feel like failures, but what schools are doing and have been doing for a
:10:33. > :10:36.long time is putting strategies in place to make sure all children get
:10:37. > :10:47.to expected levels. David, cheaply and! Sorry! One of the things is
:10:48. > :10:52.that education goes so far beyond the classroom, beyond the school. It
:10:53. > :10:57.isn't a case of the teacher doing this, it is, do you actually read
:10:58. > :11:01.your children at night? Do you give them books, do you take them to the
:11:02. > :11:05.live research is part of their life? Because a child's development does
:11:06. > :11:10.not stop at 3pm when it is time to go home. What is interesting about
:11:11. > :11:15.this story is that it is in the context of these OECD figures that
:11:16. > :11:20.shows that compared to countries like South Korea and other places,
:11:21. > :11:24.the UK wasn't performing very well, and in Wales this has been a huge
:11:25. > :11:28.issue because we were the worst of the UK nations, and had actually
:11:29. > :11:35.gone backwards in so many key areas. There was a realisation that unless
:11:36. > :11:38.uranium is discovered in Snowdonia or something, our children are our
:11:39. > :11:46.greatest natural resource. If this dries up, how do you begin to create
:11:47. > :11:49.a culture of enlightenment, really? It makes it sound like it is all
:11:50. > :11:54.doom and gloom out there, and I wish some ministers would come in to see
:11:55. > :11:56.the schools I used to see. I used to work in the East End of London,
:11:57. > :12:02.amazing schools doing amazing things. It is not doom and gloom.
:12:03. > :12:08.You can't argue with the pledge as an aspiration, can you? Not as an
:12:09. > :12:10.aspiration, but when they make it sound like there aren't great things
:12:11. > :12:14.happening in our schools, that is what it feels like sometimes.
:12:15. > :12:17.Sometimes it puts off very high quality people wanting to be
:12:18. > :12:21.teachers as well, because it feels like they are going into an industry
:12:22. > :12:25.that is not working very well. It is working well, and our schools are
:12:26. > :12:34.fantastic, and our children are fantastic, like you say.
:12:35. > :12:41.ill more homes in the countryside. `` build more homes. Effectively
:12:42. > :12:43.offering an apology saying they underestimated how well Britain
:12:44. > :12:50.would do but they said they do need to sort out the housing problem.
:12:51. > :12:55.Christine Lagard is such a highly... People seem to worship
:12:56. > :13:00.her. There were great hopes that she could somehow become European
:13:01. > :13:06.Commission President. She has apparently ruled herself out. She
:13:07. > :13:09.has still got a job, she says. Actually, Britain is doing
:13:10. > :13:19.fantastically, but you do have a housing crisis. Should we be pleased
:13:20. > :13:25.with this? We are doing better than the IMF told us we would, but we
:13:26. > :13:28.have to build more houses. The issue isn't about building houses. I think
:13:29. > :13:33.there are some other issues. It depends on where you are living in
:13:34. > :13:36.Britain. You will be thinking, this doesn't sound like what is happening
:13:37. > :13:41.around me. I don't perceive we are doing very well. Particularly for
:13:42. > :13:45.people who are long`time unemployed, young people, and those
:13:46. > :13:48.who are older people and are unemployed. Under a number of people
:13:49. > :13:57.who were made redundant in 50s and they haven't had a job for a while.
:13:58. > :14:00.Was talking to a number of people who were saying they want to keep
:14:01. > :14:05.green spaces and they don't want more houses. They want a sense of
:14:06. > :14:11.space. Not everyone living on top of each other. Too many things to talk
:14:12. > :14:17.about. We have run out of time. These two can talk. Lovely to see
:14:18. > :14:22.you both. Stay with us on BBC News. We will have more of those poignant
:14:23. > :14:24.commemorations in Normandy 70 years on from the D`Day landings. Coming
:14:25. > :14:41.up now, it is time for Sportsday. Hello and welcome to Sportsday. I'm
:14:42. > :14:45.Thomas Niblock. Andy Murray is out of the French
:14:46. > :14:51.Open. He lost in straight sets to Rafael Nadal, who will now play
:14:52. > :14:52.Novak Djokovic in the final. With