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