08/07/2014 The Papers

look ahead to the first test between England and India. Coming up in 15

minutes. Hello and welcome to

our look ahead to what the papers With me are Caroline Daniel,

editor of the Weekend edition of the Financial Times,

and Kevin Schofield, Chief That remarkable World Cup scorer.

That was surely feature on the front pages, but not yet!

The Financial Times says the Better Together campaign to keep

Scotland as part of the UK has received a flood of donations

in the run`up to the referendum on Scottish independence.

Shoppers are increasingly forcing down prices by choosing discount

The Guardian has details of donations made to

the Conservative Party by the brother`in`law of Financial

And the Metro explains how the authorities caught two men

from Birmingham, who went to Syria to fight alongside

And English cities like Manchester and Birmingham will ask Westminster

to fold more economic control to them. The Daily Telegraph, Britain

will be able to claw back some powers from Brussels? This does

sound like music to the ears of a lot of people, particularly those

backbenchers on the Tory party? In theory... ! But it really should be,

Britain may very possibly, after very long negotiation, if we

decide... It does qualify this by saying, we're looking at these if

only all others agree. There are lots of different caveats. The good

news is he is not bad`mouthing David Cameron. But there is no real story

in terms of any real evidence. Kevin, in fact, he is fulfilling

every single game lead in prophecy that the Tory adventures were

saying? He also says, I am not a Federalist, and that was the scare

story. And he says he does not want an EU without Britain so that... But

he does include Britain being able to claw back some powers? He does

say that but... This will need agreement from other members of the

EU. This will involve give and take that this is a positive signal from

the Prime Minister because he was bruised when he went into bat and he

only had one friend, in Hungary. So this is a slight olive branch to

say, look, we will, in theory, agree to some powers being returned. I am

much more sceptical, this is from a leaked recording to Brussels MEPs,

if this really was an olive branch, he would say something much more

explicit to the British. There are lots of other things the British

will want from the Commissioner. This is pretty much the smallest

thing, we might really negotiate powers. All very interesting. But

Brazil, they are dying 7`0! `` dime. `` down. As a Scotland fan, it is

sorry to feel sorry for the great Brazil! We will also stay with

Telegraph, shoppers are forcing down prices? Yes, this is an interesting

trend, apparently the rise of discount stores are forcing down

prices in other supermarkets, the upper end of the spectrum. And they

are pushing down prices and becoming much more popular with wealthier

shoppers. They want a bargain. They had the steepest fall in eight

years. That is quite significant. Given the cost of living crisis, as

Ed Miliband calls it, that is going to be a very big political

discussion point in the run`up to the election, this is quite

insignificant thing. A lot of people would say this is competition in

action. If only the energy markets was `` were as competitive? Great

news for illegal but not for Tesco and Marks Spencer. They had pretty

bad results. 12 quarters of slowing sales in clothing and Tesco recently

had terrible results, the worst in 40 years in the UK. And this is the

evidence, people like my father going shopping for his shepherd 's

pie and boasting about how cheap it was. Prices at a level that Tesco

and Marks Spencer will have to deal with? Totally, and this shift

to online shopping, so you can... Marks Spencer is bad online but

others are incredibly easy. And there are more of them, they are not

going away. It is fantastic for consumers. If only competition was

as good as that in other sectors of society. The Financial Times. The

act of union, the Better Together campaign has been deluged with

donations? This is a very good news story if you are in favour of

Scotland staying with the UK, they have raised almost double the amount

of donation money for the Better Together campaign than the

pro`Scottish campaign. ?2.4 million, and a lot of that is from J K

Rowling. The fascinating part of the story is how much this has come from

Tory donors. If of them been helping out. And from big companies and from

tankers. It has been bankrolled by Tory backers and David Cameron... He

has said, get your fingers out! Which are hand in your pocket. This

potentially will have an effect? Just over ten weeks until the

referendum, there is a lot of advertising space being paid for so

obviously this money will come in very handy. What is also significant

about this is, of the pro`independence campaign, they had

?4 million in total and a lot of that came from a couple who want the

EuroMillions and the other was Stagecoach, big SMP fans. We're

always told that the yes campaign is a grassroots movement but when it

comes down to actual cash, it is coming from a very limited range of

sources whereas the Better Together campaign is wealthy individuals and

companies with a broader spectrum. What happened is that the opinion

polls narrowed a couple of months ago and a lot of prounion supporters

saw that and thought, this will not going the way we want it to. They

came up with the cash. Hugely significant in the run`up to the

vote. The Guardian, Harriet Harman tells of a raw deal by sexism. She

suggested that Gordon Brown did not make the Deputy Prime Minister

because she is a woman? That was very mean of him! This is a really

interesting thing, people might say you would expect to see this. She

has been cheered on by Conservative ladies on Twitter? This view of him

that I would be cheering her! She has been campaigning for gender

equality. There are some details about her hosting event at the G8

summit, limited to dining with the wives of the leaders, and I can see

why that is very patronising. We discussed the reaction from David

McBride, he has underlined what a political `` politically thuggish

environment this is. It was a great speech. Kevin, she talks about

overall sexism at Westminster. You write for the Sun, doesn't look

pretty sexist to you? I think it is. It is an old boys club, she also has

a go at the press gallery. She refers it `` to it as being too male

dominated. I would take issue there, I think Damian McBride, he does

point out that Gordon Brown's record on promoting women was actually

quite good. And the best line from him was when he said that as far as

Gordon was concerned, people fell into two different categories, they

were useless or they were not useless. John Prescott was Deputy

Leader and he got the job as the number two. It would seem on the

face of it, pure and utter sexism that the same thing did not happen

to her? I would agree but it is just a bit late for her to be talking

about this year's after the event. I don't remember her at the time...

Why not? I do not know. As a lecturer, she was giving it on the

quality and that is a very big thing for her. `` the quality. John

Prescott was a Tony Blair appointment, this was a decision of

Gordon Brown. There were special circumstances regarding John

Prescott representing the left of the party and having to be given a

decent job to bolster his ego a little bit so there are different

circumstances. Gordon Brown decided that would not be the case,

especially when Harriet Harman got elected. And she has finally, seven

years later, decided to speak up about this. We are running out of

time, The Daily Telegraph, an attack on the wealth of J K Rowling? At the

heart of this is some amazing data about authors and how much they do

not get paid. The average order, then mean income is ?11,000 every

year. Based on 2500 writers. That is below the minimum wage. The idea

that you will make money from being a novelist is over. This is an

indirect attack on just how unrepresentative she is, she is

worth ?600 million. She could probably buy all of the other

authors in the UK! No one but she was indicative of the publishing

world, did they? This is more about using a very nice picture of J K

Rowling on the front page to sell more copies. You know the press so

well! And their devious little ways. And she has reintroduced Harry

Potter on his 30s, she did a piece on the website imagining Hermione

and Harry and what they would look like in their 30s, Harry Potter has

got some white hair, no spell to get rid of that. They say that

journalists are all novelists who just cannot do it! That is true! I

would not argue. Stick with the day job! ?11,000 per year, that is all

you would get as an author. There was a great cartoon that shows an

artist saying, I am writing a novel, and the other said, neither am I!

That does say it all! You will be back in about 15 minutes. Because of

the football. Many thanks. Stay with us. Much more at the top of the

hour. It will be very interesting with the sport.