07/07/2014 The Papers

in from the east. Warm air following that, so the second half of the week

could turn warm and humid. Keep up`to`date with the forecast over

the next few days. Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are Beth Rigby,

Deputy Political Editor of the Financial Times, and John Kampfner,

Director of the Creative Industries Federation. Tomorrow's front pages,

starting with: The Guardian leads with the story that the Home

Secretary has announced two inquiries into historic child abuse.

Related to the same story, The Daily Mail's front page claims the Home

Office gave money to groups linked to paedophiles. The Times calls the

inquiries the biggest ever inquiry into sex abuse. While the Mirror

highlights the fact that neither inquiry will be led by a judge.

Their headline asks what have you got to hide? The Daily Telegraph

leads with the airport security story. Their headline: 'You won't

fly if your phone is flat.' The Daily Express hails what they

describe as a major breakthrough in the fight against Alzheimer's, with

a simple blood test. Mum`of`four Wendy Bush tells the Sun how their

breast cancer awareness scheme has saved her life. And the Financial

Times reports that the European Central Bank is under pressure to

take action against a persistently strong Euro. We will have a look at

the Times. Referring to the Home Secretary's announcements regarding

child sex abuse. There will be the biggest ever enquiry into child sex

abuse according to the Times. Yes, with sweeping... There are to make

enquiries, at the main, generic one, will be sweeping. It is interesting

how ministers and the government generally have suggested over the

weekend that they would be more limited. But they would be less

independent, and would just look at the general popular agitation for

it, and this morning, Monday morning's papers were very adamant

that it needed to be stronger. They tightened it all up. But it is...

No, it will be, both sets of enquiries, and other ongoing

specific enquiries, it will absolutely open up a can of worms.

It will expose obviously the detail to come. But this culture of

indulgence towards what we might call depravity in the 1970s and

1980s, albeit technically illegal, but at the same time pretty much

blind eyes were turned. And very much at the heart of the

establishment. One has the impression that that will be the

general atmosphere around the conclusions. As, it is interesting,

talking about what triggered the government's seeming change of heart

about an all`encompassing enquiry. We had to make people on the Andrew

Marr Show yesterday. We were told that there may well have been a

cover`up to protect the establishment, and Michael Gove said

that he didn't see any need for an that he didn't see any need for an

enquiry. It seems that the papers, and certainly the media, seems to

have jumped on to the opinions of Mr Tebbutt more than Mr Gove. And

picking up what you are saying, you saw the wind changing this morning

when we heard that they will do what they need to do. This will not be

some quick look at the Home Office issue about missing documents about

allegations of paedophilia and child abuse. They will actually do a

proper... It is the sense that perhaps there are some people in

society protecting the rich and the powerful. Yes, well the

disappearance of the documents. Doesn't this remind you of, I was

thinking, this reminds me a little bit of what happened to the Catholic

Church when they had that epiphany of, we can't keep covering up child

abuse, and abuse of children and abuse of boys. We need to actually

clean up our act before we can as an institution move on. And I think

going back to this idea of the establishment covering up, you had

that BBC documentary whereby the border skew, a senior Web the

government in the 70s, told a documentary of a systematic

cover`up. `` Fortescue. He said it might be debt, it might be a scandal

involving small boys, any kind of scandal, they would help if they

could and store it up as Brownie points. Now, I don't think if the

government had tried to sit on this, it wouldn't have stuck all stock I

think, as you have said, there has been a big... People want disclosure

and they want transparency. The political class has been denigrated

anyway since the Spencer scandal. And any attempt to cover up any kind

of scandal will not wash. They are doing the right thing by getting it

all out in the open. There is no self`interest for politicians to

cover this up, because we are talking by and large one assumes

about historical issues. And there may still be some who are around,

but we are talking about a generation or two earlier. And just

one post script thought on this, is Theresa May, last time you were on

the papers, we were talking about how well she had read the public

mood over the police. This time again, it is quite interesting, I

don't know at what point she either initiated or agreed to the broad,

sweeping nature of these enquiries. But again, I can't imagine that

Michael Gove would have gone on a Sunday morning talk show yesterday,

and said, without... They have been bounced. Exactly. Michael Gove is

the voice piece of David Cameron and George Osborne. They will have

calibrated what they wanted to say on this, and will have had it

agreed. And everyone wheeled out for media appearances over the weekend

would have had a very clear line. They have obviously changed

position, and I think they were right to do it. I don't think you

can sweep this under the carpet. But the Daily Mirror suggests it is

being swept under the carpet. Furious government launches

enquiries but neither will be led by a judge. Yes, I mean, we were

retching our heads when we were looking at this `` we were

scratching our heads when we were looking at this, that the more

narrow enquiry is going to be led by the chief executive of the NSPCC.

You would think he would... He will be assisted via top legal brain as

well. So unless we have our FAQ is wrong, the more generic one will be

announced later anyway. `` facts wrong. I think there is a political

element. Or is it Right? When we find out the nature of who is

leading the main one, I suppose, that will determine what will

happen. Theresa May, when she stood up to announce this broad, National

enquiry into all institutions, no holds barred, you know what I mean.

Something about wrestling. She was unable to name the scope of the

enquiry or the chair. It shows how quickly they have come around to

this thinking. I don't think this is about trying to hide things. I think

this is actually two separate enquiries that they are now, whether

they did it reluctantly or not, once it starts, it will be out of their

control and will happen. As with Leveson. Exactly. Berlin puts allies

back into the cold. They are fed up with being spied upon by their

so`called allies in the US and UK. This story is about the Germans

being really fed up that they have found out that a German spy was

being a double agent for the US. And it comes on the back of another

diplomatic spat between these two countries, when it emerged, was it

in the Snowden revelations? That Angela Merkel's phone calls have

been capped by the US security services, leading to a diplomatic

row. `` tapped. She is obviously really unhappy about it, describing

the scandal of the double agent spy as a serious development. And we

picked up this great quote where the German security spokesman said that

they must focus more strongly on their so`called allies. I.e. ,

France, the US... With friends like these... As someone once said. It is

lifted the lid on what a lot of Americans seem to be getting up to.

The Germans seem to have been particularly hit on. Angela

Merkel's personal mobile phone! One works with the assumption that that

they either tried to or succeeded in listening to everyone. It is

probably a sort of virility test. If you won't listen to, then you didn't

matter. They were listening to my telephone. As we were saying

earlier, there is a much greater anxiety, and I think legitimate

anxiety, in continental Europe about privacy and about the storing of

data by authorities. But also for the Germans. I mean, they are not a

military force. So it is like, why... These are sort of issues of

national security, the Germans aren't... Barrow very staunch NATO

ally. Exactly. But they are also a very well`established powerhouse. Is

a commercial, and then that, particularly offends their freedom.

Staying with the Telegraph. You won't fly if your phone is flat. I

will be in trouble because my phone is always flat. You will never be

able to find the phone charging stations at the airport now. The

bottomline is that if you can't switch your phone on power it up you

won't be able to get on the flight. So it is not just your phone being

taken away, you won't be able to flight. `` to fly. We were recalling

that after 7/7, the ninth anniversary of which was today, the

security that followed also did involve making sure that your

electronic items were powered up, so this isn't entirely new. But there

is an element of back to the future about this. It goes back to what you

said earlier about the sophistication with which those who

would do harm on flights, in terms of can you hide a device in your

body, or in your phone? You are saying maybe it is only a matter of

time before we have full body scanners. My view is that to force

everyone to go through this, when clearly 99.9% of people that fly

would be of no interest to the security forces at all, seemed a

little bit over the top. But that is only because I always get caught out

with my make`up in my handbag and my phone not charged. All right. We are

running out of time. We will talk about Doctor but they sell like

hotcakes but readers find them in digestible. A brief history of Time

by Stephen Hawking. I think... Controversial here, basically, I

read The Goldfinch, it was a wonderful book. When you go on

holiday, do you really want to sit there with a weighty academic tome?

With Capital, for instance. It is the sort of book you have to have so

that you can quote. I don't know as well. The reason I was going a bit

controversial was that I write that there is a division between the

sexes, that men will more typically take a non`fiction book, and women

will take... Chick lit? Are you suggesting that I would only take

Das Capital? Just that men are more likely to read non`fiction books.

But women are more likely to read. Book sales are skewed towards women.

Women are brainier. The moral of the story is just to take a good novel,

isn't it? And leave the brain growth... 50 Shades? I read some of

it. You read some of it? Which bits did you read? I read some of it but

I didn't find it very interesting, to be honest. You didn't find it

very interesting? I preferred The Goldfinch. You ditched it for

Capital, didn't you? You prefer your real`life to 50 Shades. Thank you

for joining me to look at the stories behind the headlines, and

interesting revelations. Always good to learn a little bit. Stay with us

here on BBC News. Much more at the top of the hour about those two

enquiries into child abuse. But coming up next, it's time for World

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