05/07/2014 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers

With me are the barrister Sophia Cannon, and Oliver Brown,

chief sports feature writer from the Telegraph.

Hello. Let's have a look at the front pages. Starting with... The

Observer. 'Triumph and Pain' is the Observer's

verdict on the Grand Depart first stage

of the Tour de France in Yorkshire. The picture of the peloton making

its way across Grinton Moor The Sunday Telegraph says the

Home Office claims it has 'lost' or destroyed 114 files connected to

the investigation into the handling of a dossier

about child abuse allegations. The Mail on Sunday claims that

an unnamed Labour peer is being investigated by police following

allegations of historical abuse. The Sunday express has an interview

with Vanessa Feltz who claims that she was assaulted on live television

I Rolf Harris. Let's kick off with the Observer newspaper. This is a

very striking picture. We always like a fantastic picture on the

front page of a national newspaper but this is a cracker. I am local.

You can say that with pride. The way to Yorkshire is shining. Other

counties are available. Not at this moment in time. 2 million people

have turned up here all across the country, they have come to see the

Tour de France and it is a big success. Apart from what has

happened to Mark Cavendish. Look how we have presented this beautiful

kente. Let's hope it can come back and becomes a fixture. You never

know. This is pretty spectacular, isn't it? It looks like a scene from

Wuthering Heights. It is at times like this that Britain feels a

little less like an island. This Continental connection we have is

going crazy. It is lovely that this section of the tour was designed to

capture Yorkshire's sense of humour. There were sheep in the fields

hinted yellow and they had polka`dots on them. I think there

was a sheep made out of cheese in Wensleydale. It was a cultural nod

to wear that he had taken place. Everyone is there. Wallace and

Gromit. An inflatable Wallace and Gromit. The hope that boys. You

could say these are Yorkshire cliches. In terms of making

Yorkshire more international, are we taking Yorkshire to the world or is

it the other way around? This is the high`speed, this is how we do it and

that is the best way to be seen. Mark Cavendish. A sad end to that

first stage. It is not what they wanted. There are concerns he had

broken his collar bone but a dislocated shoulder is pretty

serious for a sprinter in a race like this. His assault on the green

jersey will be difficult to say the least. What one may consider more

serious news here, child abuse files lost at the Home Office, fears of a

cover`up. Is Sue is that there has always been a conspiracy about a

conspiracy. `` the issue is that. Surrounding the issue of children

and abuse. And it appears that despite the fact that for years

prominent people have been claiming this has been happening, and

obviously Geoffrey Dickens physically handed a dossier to a

government minister and that has disappeared. The other documents may

have also disappeared. That suggests that there was perhaps a system in

place to ensure that both vulnerable were not being protected. It speaks

to the issue of impunity. From the poorest homes we have had issues of

abuse in children's homes through to prep schools in the most wealthy

homes. This is a problem and we need to wake up to it. And an area who

know very well from your job in the legal profession. Our reopening a

canny hero that is going to proliferate? Will there be vast

amounts of these cases coming out? Yes. We have to open this can. The

way our democracy works, it is at its healthiest when we expose the

truth and we have to have an inquiry and that is what we are good at. If

this was going on at the time and it was being covered up to this extent,

what is the level of criminality involved? We must look at how we

have treated our children. How do we enquire into this? A full`scale

inquiry? I think we need a Royal Commission. It is that serious. It

involves those whose reach extends into the law and we have had issues

as to whether it extends to the House of Lords as well as the house

of parliament. And whether a Levenson style inquiry will work. We

need to have a Royal Commission. This tax into everything we have

heard about Jimmy Savile and Cyril Smith. I don't think the public will

tolerate anything less than a full`scale public inquiry. It is

interesting that the newspaper have invoked the Hillsborough precedent

because that is the Hillsborough precedent because that is this date

it has reached. ) looks so long to get to a point where the public

trusted the inquiry. `` Hillsborough took so long. It is about having an

inquiry that public trust. I think clearly the government must realise

the seriousness of what they are on the cusp of. The central notion of

politicians, even the intimation of a cover`up is so damaging. The very

notion they could have harboured a piggy floor in, they will see that

as a long way from an allegation. The sheer gravity of that has to

lead... It is a depth and width gravitas. It has been undertaken in

Canada and Australia, they have had Royal Commission is about how deep

this went. We have to also. It is that question of competence.

Documents being lost, and that is something that people will query. It

is that Richard Nixon thing, it is either a cover`up or incompetence.

Yes, that is the issue. We have had Operation Yewtree and that has been

criticised widely because it has been a witchhunt, a thorough,

judicial approach. The correct approach, we do not live in a

society where we have witchhunts, we have the rule of law and the issue

is, do we allow our society to be recognised as one that sweep things

under the carpet just because it is a difficult and even a dangerous way

to approach things. It is dangerous because we will have many people

seeing that this did not happen. We heard about Vanessa Feltz seeing

things happen to her live on television. It has been an issue

that people have been saying it has happened for years, women and

children, we need to have a Royal Commission. Probably what happened

with Jimmy Savile has profoundly changed that, we are much more in

claimed as a nation to believe these sorts of allegations. Yes. Jailed

protection is paramount. 130 MPs are supportive of the notion of a public

inquiry. Everything we have heard of Rolf Harris and what Vanessa Feltz

is claiming in the Sunday express speaks to that. `` child protection

is paramount. The Sunday express has covered the same story. The public

says the Sunday Telegraph, too complacent about terror threats in

the UK. Tell us a bit more about this. They are talking about the

technical skill to make explosive devices concealed in tablet

computers. We are approaching the ninth anniversary of seven slash

seven. `` the ninth anniversary of 7/7. Obviously barring the terrible

murder of Lee Rigby. Who on Earth would have thought that civilian

aircraft could have been used as lethal weapons in 9/11? Who would

have thought a soldier could be murdered so sickeningly in broad

daylight? The fact that so much time has elapsed should be no cause to

become pleasant. On the flip side, one person's too complacent is

another person saying, not paranoid. At the start of summer reword gently

mocking eyes is, they were the James Bond bag eyes in Iraq. `` by guys.

`` bad guys. They have got a research and development department

looking into ways of getting around current technology. War on terror is

not going to be about flying planes into buildings or leaving bombs on

trains, it is going to be online, digital, it is going to be on the

microscopic level, small, tablet computers, it is not going to be the

large bombs, it is going to be the devilish way of getting round this

issue. We are going to be saying, war on terror, is there an app for

that? It was said that the mobile phone network was switched off when

Abu Bakr al Baghdadi gave his address in Mosul. Further down the

article you have Al`Qaeda's chief weapons expert, he has linked up

with jihadist in Syria to pass on his skills. Running bomb`making

workshops. Extra one hour at airports is something people will

accept once they hear about that. Let's look at the Mail on Sunday.

Let's go back to a sporting theme. There are not that many famous

Eugenies in the world. She got to the final of Wimbledon. She got

annihilated. Yes. I was on Centre Court this afternoon, she was

obliterated. And Vince is Eugenie actually turned up. `` kept Max. She

said earlier this week it would be amazing to meet the Princess she was

named after. The royal presence did not bring her much luck. `` Princess

Eugenie. It was the shortest Wimbledon final for 31 years. 55

minutes. I know. It is almost as if the god of sport is not listening to

how things should go. It would have been a dream final if she pulled it

out of the bag. And her twin sister is called Beatrice. Her mother must

be a fan of the Royal Family. It was horrific to watch. The Duchess of

Cambridge was at the Tour de France. It is never a bad thing, for oils to

associate with big sporting occasions. They are young and

vibrant and they are the best of British. They are pulling out what

we do best, World Cup, cricket, all of the big tournaments. They seem to

be bad luck, though! The Duke and Duchess turning up for Andy Murray's

quarterfinal exit and then Mark Cavendish's crash. You can probably

draw a parallel about anybody, if they had turned up and Andy Murray

had won in straight sets, you would say it was despite them. Thank you

both very much indeed for a moment. You'll both be back at 11.30

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