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:00:00. > :00:00.yellow jersey. We will reflect on the World Cup in Brazil, as our

:00:00. > :00:19.attention turns to the Olympics in two years' time.

:00:20. > :00:29.Welcome to our lookahead at what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow.

:00:30. > :00:36.We will start with the Daily Telegraph, which is leading on that

:00:37. > :00:41.cabinet reshuffle. The Guardian takes on the same story, Haig

:00:42. > :00:46.resigns in dramatic Tory reshuffle. The Financial Times also leads with

:00:47. > :00:50.a story about William Hague, adding that David Cameron is planning a

:00:51. > :00:57.younger cabinet with more women. The Daily Mail describes the reshuffle

:00:58. > :01:03.as a purge of middle`aged men. The Sun also reports on that, but the

:01:04. > :01:07.main story is about Cheryl Cole changing her name after getting

:01:08. > :01:11.married. The Daily Mirror has details of Cheryl Cole's recent

:01:12. > :01:24.wedding, but its main story is tonight's big political news. Hague

:01:25. > :01:28.out in Cameron above. The Times also reports on the cabinet cull, and

:01:29. > :01:36.that the Church of England approves women bishops. The Metro talks about

:01:37. > :01:45.a crackdown on the NHS. Haig quits as Cameron clears out the

:01:46. > :01:51.cabinet. Yes, he will be going from House of Commons, as well as the

:01:52. > :01:55.government, after 26 years. This is of course the man who was once a

:01:56. > :02:02.schoolboy, making that famous speech to the Tory conference, saying, I am

:02:03. > :02:08.the future. Well, he ain't any more. It is a very depressing sight, a

:02:09. > :02:15.16`year`old so wrapped up in politics. He was very wrapped up in

:02:16. > :02:21.politics at that point. He would be a big loss to the government, he has

:02:22. > :02:24.been a competent fighter. No big gas under his leadership of the Foreign

:02:25. > :02:30.Office, and obviously there were some big things going on in the

:02:31. > :02:40.world that could do with a safe pair of hands `` gaffes. Think we are

:02:41. > :02:44.right to stay at the start of this coalition that he would avoid

:02:45. > :02:50.reshuffling is much as possible. The three big offices have remained

:02:51. > :02:56.constant. I don't think we can be that approving of his tenure in the

:02:57. > :03:01.I think a lot of people would say that it is not clear what Britain's

:03:02. > :03:05.place in the world is. He apparently suffered very badly after the defeat

:03:06. > :03:10.on Syria, because he couldn't take his own party with him. I haven't

:03:11. > :03:14.got what they wanted out of Europe, and I can't say that Afghanistan and

:03:15. > :03:18.the withdrawal from Iraq looked terribly competent either. Nor has

:03:19. > :03:26.our support for the Arab spring, or him wanting to arm the Syrian

:03:27. > :03:33.rebels, saying that would all work out as well. Right! Think he is a

:03:34. > :03:39.very nice man, but you can't say it was a perfect success. If you look

:03:40. > :03:50.at the disaster we had in the invasion of Iraq with the Labour

:03:51. > :03:53.government, these were obviously actions taken... If you want to

:03:54. > :03:59.compare disastrous foreign policy in the past 12 years, to rather

:04:00. > :04:04.unimpressive stuff in the last four. Anyway, moving on. He had a lot to

:04:05. > :04:17.mop up, with Iraq and Afghanistan, I will grant you that Syria and the

:04:18. > :04:21.Commons defeat... It sounds like a joke, but it is important is how he

:04:22. > :04:27.pronounces his words. He could be used as someone who can get the

:04:28. > :04:35.message to the north. Sign that he will be the leader of the Commons,

:04:36. > :04:42.he is fantastic at making speeches. Is not in the Tories little circle,

:04:43. > :04:44.and they need that desperately. Not as desperately as they need some

:04:45. > :04:58.women and some people who aren't white. A purge of the middle`aged

:04:59. > :05:02.man. Esther McVeigh is in. The reason it is a purge is because

:05:03. > :05:08.their run nothing but middle`aged men in the cabinet. The call Kenneth

:05:09. > :05:16.Clarke middle`aged, aged 72, I think that gives all of us a lot of hope.

:05:17. > :05:21.There is a serious point, only three women in the cabinet. Before people

:05:22. > :05:28.get very excited about all the men going, let's not forget that if all

:05:29. > :05:33.seven that have been lost will be replaced by women, there are still

:05:34. > :05:37.twice as many men and women in the cabinet. We know that won't happen,

:05:38. > :05:44.because we know that Phillip Hammond is going to William Hague's job. At

:05:45. > :05:48.last, some women are going and some talented women `` some men are going

:05:49. > :05:58.and some talented women will have a chance. Today, it was said if there

:05:59. > :06:05.was a risk whether this would favour gender over talent. All those years,

:06:06. > :06:12.it was only men who knew what they were doing. Even with the women they

:06:13. > :06:15.were trying to hang on to, David Cameron really tried to hang on to

:06:16. > :06:19.the culture Secretary, even though it was clear to all of us that she

:06:20. > :06:25.should go, he didn't do a great job in first place. No one was saying he

:06:26. > :06:37.was choosing the correct women in the first place, although he had few

:06:38. > :06:41.to choose from but he has overlooked talented women because they weren't

:06:42. > :06:52.party faithfuls. He has taken on some rebels, Andrea Levenson is very

:06:53. > :06:56.impressive, with a very sharp green, and only just got a promotion

:06:57. > :07:00.as a junior minister. If we go to the Daily Mirror, it has taken a bit

:07:01. > :07:10.of a different tack to all the other papers on this. The implication is

:07:11. > :07:16.that William Hague was pushed, and didn't quit. I would be astounded if

:07:17. > :07:23.the Daily Mirror had this inside track from inside the Tory party, as

:07:24. > :07:29.a Labour loyal paper. I think they tried to make mischief. David

:07:30. > :07:38.Cameron knows how valuable William Hague is, and he wouldn't have...

:07:39. > :07:45.Keeping sea has been brilliant, he would have hung on to him. William

:07:46. > :07:50.Hague has been getting rather bored with the job, it is rumoured. He is

:07:51. > :07:53.fed up with the travelling, and he is brilliant at writing books and

:07:54. > :07:58.giving speeches, and he likes to play the piano. He wants a change.

:07:59. > :08:05.Didn't he do it during his last Wilderness years, a 2`man show,

:08:06. > :08:12.didn't they go around the country? Are you serious? Yes. I wish I had

:08:13. > :08:20.known, I would have gone. We are going to leave talk of the reshuffle

:08:21. > :08:40.and go on to the Daily Telegraph. A very big picture on the front page

:08:41. > :08:44.of a female reverend. The Church of England could be getting women

:08:45. > :08:49.bishops next year. All three houses of the Synod have voted down, there

:08:50. > :08:57.was a shock decision against two years ago, when it was blocked. That

:08:58. > :09:05.was a great shock, and obviously the church is way out of step with the

:09:06. > :09:08.rest of the country. And even there was a threat of Parliamentary

:09:09. > :09:20.intervention if they haven't done it. For those of us who don't, who

:09:21. > :09:27.aren't church`goers, it all seems a bit otherworldly. I don't know, one

:09:28. > :09:31.of my first jobs as a reporter for the BBC was to make a film in

:09:32. > :09:34.Northern Ireland about the opposition to the idea that women

:09:35. > :09:40.would become priests at all. They were just about to. There was such

:09:41. > :09:45.venomous hatred in the idea that women had a right to appear as a

:09:46. > :09:49.representative of God. There was huge resentment, and there has been

:09:50. > :09:56.a lot of that still. One of the moving things was that the Guardian

:09:57. > :10:02.has a quote, saying it took a closing speech of real passion from

:10:03. > :10:11.an evangelical Christian to round this up. Your fate is my fate, is

:10:12. > :10:15.all of our fate, and everyone us has a responsibility to make sure the

:10:16. > :10:21.searing vision of the risen Christ goes out to the people. I am an

:10:22. > :10:27.atheist, but I hear a chill down my spine when I hear that. Apparently

:10:28. > :10:31.they had peace negotiators to work out a framework by which

:10:32. > :10:35.Conservatives could remain within the church and still have female

:10:36. > :10:40.bishops. They actually had people who deal with violence and war

:10:41. > :10:47.negotiating within the church to try to get this framework worked out.

:10:48. > :10:53.Can we send them to Israel now? And Syria after that? The church still

:10:54. > :10:59.have to deal with the vexed issue of homosexuality. I think the

:11:00. > :11:02.Archbishop of Canterbury has been on Newsnight, saying there is going to

:11:03. > :11:07.be a guided conversation about issues of sexuality. If you are

:11:08. > :11:11.going to keep the Anglican Church, not just the Church of England but

:11:12. > :11:20.the Anglican Church across the world, it is necessary. And assisted

:11:21. > :11:26.suicide, which is another issue that will be discussed and could be very

:11:27. > :11:28.fractious. Nadine Gordimer, Evergreen, ageless and an

:11:29. > :11:36.inspiration to all writers. She has died. This means a lot to me because

:11:37. > :11:37.I was born in South Africa and might parents were political

:11:38. > :11:48.revolutionaries, and contemporaries of Nadine Gordimer's. I grew up

:11:49. > :11:56.reading her books. It is easy to forget that she had a very difficult

:11:57. > :12:00.time of it. To be a liberal, and a woman and a writer in South Africa

:12:01. > :12:04.when there were almost no voices prepared to stand up against

:12:05. > :12:08.apartheid. She was loathed by the regime, meaning she was voted by

:12:09. > :12:15.many people within it. She had quite an isolated life for decades. There

:12:16. > :12:20.were just a couple of lone voices against apartheid in a very hostile

:12:21. > :12:22.environment. She was immensely brave to keep writing like that. People

:12:23. > :12:32.forget that once South Africa change, she did not then become a

:12:33. > :12:41.heroine. There is nothing that quiet revolutionaries hate more than the

:12:42. > :12:50.revolutionaries from before the revolution. What she was one of the

:12:51. > :13:07.first people Nelson Mandela visited when he left prison. She said, how

:13:08. > :13:11.could white South Africans feel that they are the master race, when they

:13:12. > :13:18.walk around in very tight khaki shorts? I read that years ago, and

:13:19. > :13:24.it completely blew that vision of the Afrikaans state being a

:13:25. > :13:29.wonderful thing. She just blew it with a few well chosen words. Well

:13:30. > :13:35.chosen words were the tools of her profession. It seems like only

:13:36. > :13:38.minutes we were sitting around this table discussing the death of Maya

:13:39. > :13:44.Angelou. It is so sad that these very strong powerful voices from

:13:45. > :13:47.different places in the world in different backgrounds, fighting for

:13:48. > :13:52.so many of the same things, racial and sexual equality. I hope this

:13:53. > :14:00.means that some people who have never read her would feel inclined

:14:01. > :14:13.to try. What would you recommend? Burgo's daughter, about 80 girl who

:14:14. > :14:20.realises about apartheid. She wasn't simplistic, she was sophisticated.

:14:21. > :14:27.It was great to have you in. At midnight, we will have much more on

:14:28. > :14:31.the rapidly developing reshuffle at the heart of government. We already

:14:32. > :14:38.know William Hague is leaving, what other changes can we expect? Coming

:14:39. > :14:40.up now, World Cups forestay.