05/08/2014 The Papers

Jadeja during their altercation during the first test between

England and India. Welcome to our look ahead to what

the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me here in London is

Craig Woodhouse, political correspondent for the Sun.

And in our Glasgow studio, Jean Freeman from Women for Independence.

Time for a look at the front pages. On the Daily Mirror, bomb terror at

38,000 feet. The paper describes the moment RAF

jets were scrambled to escort a passenger plane after a bomb hoax.

The Times shows the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry

walking through a field of ceramic poppies at the Tower of London.

The Daily Mail says six out of ten chickens on sale at supermarkets

carry a dangerous bug, which causes food poisoning.

The Express warns that energy bills may soar as suppliers scramble to

make up for a dip in their profits. After today's shock resignation by

the Conservative minister Baroness Warsi, the Telegraph says she's

warning another minister may follow her lead.

And the Guardian says Alastair Darling landed a barrage of blows on

First Minister Alex Salmond in tonight's televised referendum

debate. No surprise, then, that the debate

features heavily on some of the front pages. But there is more

analysis on the inside pages as well. Also, the resignation over

Gaza. That is the front page on the Times, which also speculates that

this may just be the beginning. That is what Baroness Warsi indicated in

her rather inflammatory exit interview she gave yesterday

evening. Interestingly, the Times says Dominic grieve, the former

Attorney General, who was axed in the reshuffle recently, has come out

in favour of Baroness Warsi's position. In her resignation, she

said that the Council of some of the more moderate figures like Dominic

Grieve 's and Ken Clarke had been missing in the last few weeks.

Clearly, there is a rift. Nick Clegg and Vince Cable have come out

strongly in favour of suspending arms exports to Israel. This is not

just a Tory party war but a war within the coalition. When things

like this bubble up in the summertime, when everyone is on

recess, they take a while to get going. But this one has got going

very quickly. How do people read into this? Do people care? What

people care about is when they think that parties are divided and split.

There is a lot of evidence that voters do not like division within

parties or, in this case, it looks like not only within a party but

within the two parties of government. I think that is what

people care about. Of course, people will care about what is going on in

Israel and in Gaza and have opinions on that but I think that the impact

this will have is more on the unsettling nature of division in the

UK government. I also think the point about things like this

happening in the summertime, absolutely, it has certainly grown

legs and run quite fast. Debates like this are harder to close down

this summer as well because there is not much else happening and the

Prime Minister is on holiday, so he is not there to get a grip of it and

take control or even appear and make statements and so on. It feels

well`planned, well timed and therefore deliberate. I think what

has been happening over the last few days, she did not have much option

in that timing. She the World War I commemorations that

have been going on. She earliest point she could do it and

she knew that David Cameron was on his way to Portugal. This is your

newspaper's headline. It is quite clever. Again, it hints at some

insight into the internal discussions going on at the ten

Downing Street, if anyone is around, of course. Indeed. David Cameron

seems to be cursed that whenever he leaves the country, something big

happens. He was in Africa when his constituency was flooded. He was

under attack for that at the time. He was on holiday shortly after the

horrific murder of Lee Rigby. And here he is, looking at fish. And we

have the caption, gutted, underneath a picture of David Cameron and a

picture of a fish, just as one of his main ministers walked out. If he

wanted to give a statement from Portugal, it might give this story

too much credence. He is dammed if he does and dammed if he doesn't. Do

you admire someone who was hailed by David Cameron as Britain's first

female Muslim Cabinet minister? Do you admire what she has done today,

making a stand? I admire any politician who acts out of beliefs

and principles. If that is what has happened today, that is worthy of

admiration. sensibly cynical about politicians

and their motivations, so I will withhold my judgement until I see

more about what happens here. That is a good point. This might not end

up dabbling `` damaging the government too much. People won't

mind if a person stands down because they have to look in the mirror

every day and... Let's look at the other main story in the papers, the

referendum debate in Scotland. The Daily Mail is calling it. Darling

wins debate as crowd turns on Alex Salmond. Yes. And with all due

respect, it is something of a classic Daily Mail headline in that

there were a few seconds when the audience, not the crowd, the

audience in the venue expressed their displeasure at the first

minister. There were also other occasions when the audience

expressed uncomplimentary views of Alistair Darling. It was a bit...

But it is accurate. They did express displeasure. Whether that warrants a

headline to say that the crowd has turned on Alex Salmond, I'm less

sure. This is the problem with these election debates. Similarly with

leadership debates before elections. The one between Nick Clegg and Nigel

Farage. Everyone is desperate to reach a judgement immediately on who

won and who lost and what they key moments were. That is partly the

reason why David Cameron says he does not want the same format this

time around. This ends up being dominated by who said this and who

said that. Sometimes, it's just a couple of seconds either way that

can determine the entire coverage. Head`to`head battle. Alex Salmond

and Alistair Darling in a head`to`head battle. It is fair to

say that it was a heated debate and made interesting television. Yes,

and that is exactly what we want. That is the point of them. Alistair

Darling has been criticised as the grey man, the man with no notions.

He came across much better and gave as good as he got. I agree. You

found it engaging and heated? It was. Not merely passionate enough

for my liking at times but in terms of Alistair Darling's performance,

he is criticised and characterised as being dull and boring and in

fairness, he was quite energised and animated and he stuck to the script

and made his points. In that sense, it was not all. Admittedly, you have

seen more of it than we have. It is on our Parliament channel tomorrow

at seven o'clock because there were problems with the streaming on the

internet, so not everybody could get it. So, you are our expert tonight

on whether it was heated or not. Moving on to the Guardian will stop

aspirin could cut cancer rates. We seem to get a lot of these Tories.

In some sense, we must be careful that we do not read into possible

breakthroughs. I'm always sceptical whenever I see some thing could cut

or cause cancer. We often get all the same thing can do both. This

does seem to be a fairly authoritative study pointing to some

significant health benefits in terms of bowel cancer, cancer of the

oesophagus, other stomach cancers. It is if you take a small dose of

aspirin over a long period of time for 50`64 `year`olds. The older you

get, the better the health benefits for you. It is a slight gamble,

however, because for every 15 or 17 lives it will save, some people will

die from the risk of stomach bleeds and strokes, so it is a calculated

gamble. As always, consult your GP. How much do you read into these

revelations? I agree very much with what has just been said. You have to

read the entire article, if you like. Sometimes, you will get that

kind of headline and when you actually read the story, what has

happened is that researchers have got to the next stage in their

research and there is an indication that suggest that such and such a

thing might be helpful. This is a bit different but I think that with

all of these things, you have to read past the headline and then

consult your GP because all drugs are individually dependent on what

else you have going on, whether it is your weight, your exercise or any

other conditions that you have. You have to be careful and not just jump

out and start buying aspirin. The doctor who conducted the study said

that aspirin looks to be the most important thing we can do to reduce

cancer after stopping cancer `` after stopping smoking and reducing

obesity and would probably be much easier to increment. Those other

things are more important to do but we are so lazy and so bad at giving

up smoking but it might be easier just to take an aspirin before bed

everyday. A reminder today that we are still under threat and there is

still tension about our safety from terrorist attacks. We don't have to

tell people where you are, in Glasgow, about the threat from

terrorist attacks because you had the attack at Glasgow Airport some

time ago. The Mirror is focusing on this story, dedicating its entire

front page. Yes. There are two aspects to this. The interesting

thing for me about this story is how quickly both the airline and

particularly the aircrew and our security forces reacted to this and

dealt with it. That is a good thing and reassuring. And the risk of them

is that because it was like that and nothing bad came of it, we need to

be careful not to become too blase about it and think that this kind of

threat cannot be carried through with catastrophic consequences.

However, it is an important story. I think it has to be given some

context and we have to be grateful that the security forces and the

aircrew and the airline reacted so well to it and remain vigilant to

those kinds of threats and such possibilities. Terrifying if you are

sitting on an aircraft and you see a fighter jet flying by the side. You

know what it is therefore. Yes, absolutely. And the reason why this

story took off is that everyone has a high`quality camera in their

pockets. We had a man filming the RAF jet through the window, we had

people in gardens in the Manchester area forming the entire thing, and

this was all happening before the aircraft even landed! It was

absolutely amazing in terms of speedy coverage. We have time to

look at the Daily Express. Energy bills soar by ?130. Energy is one of

the big issues at the heart of the referendum debate. Who will pay and

how much will it cost? Where will it come from? It is a big worry. And

this is such a classic story because the argument that is being presented

for the possibility that energy prices will rise is that the

companies concerned did not do so well because we had a warm winter.

If we had a cold winter, that would have been their argument for doing

it as well. I think that there has to be much more serious examination

of our energy use and energy resource in the country. Let us get

away from the capacity of private sector companies to make such a

degree of profit and to jiggle around prices, which causes enormous

misery to ordinary, working people, who really, for them, the idea that

price hike is a significant worry as we head into winter. Thank you. All

the sport coming up next. Hello, and welcome to Sportsday, I'm

Mandy