:00:00. > :00:00.League results, and on the pitch with referees learning to use the
:00:00. > :00:20.vanishing spray. Don't banish! See you in 15 minutes. `` fannish
:00:21. > :00:23.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers
:00:24. > :00:27.With me is Oliver Wright, Whitehall Editor of The Independent
:00:28. > :00:29.and in our Edinburgh studio, author and journalist, Iain Macwhirter.
:00:30. > :00:41.Boris Johnson says it will be easy to wind power is back from the EU as
:00:42. > :00:45.long as the pie minister gets tough. The Metro has news that a
:00:46. > :00:48.44`year`old man is to be charged with manslaughter after evidently
:00:49. > :00:56.giving his 17`year`old daughter ecstasy. Chloe Wilkins collapsed and
:00:57. > :00:59.died at home in in July. The Telegraph says the new Education
:01:00. > :01:01.Secretary is to push for British values to be taught at nursery to
:01:02. > :01:09.protect toddlers from religious extremism. The US weighs up air
:01:10. > :01:12.strikes is the headline in the Guardian as the Islamic militant
:01:13. > :01:18.group IS continues to make gains in Iraq. The Daily Mail says NHS
:01:19. > :01:21.operation waiting lists of the longest they have been in six years.
:01:22. > :01:25.The Daily Mirror says the gang that of the deadly attacked and killed
:01:26. > :01:32.two students in Malaysia were high on crystal meth. An image of Iraqi
:01:33. > :01:36.refugees fleeing the militant group IS dominates the front page of The
:01:37. > :01:40.Times, saying a mass exodus of Christians are fleeing from Muslim
:01:41. > :01:47.extremists. Let's begin with the Telegraph, specifically in Scotland
:01:48. > :01:50.which makes sense to go to you, Ian, referring to Alex Salmon, saying he
:01:51. > :01:53.refuses to back down, a reference to what he said in the Scottish
:01:54. > :01:59.parliament following his debate with Alistair Darling. He sees it as
:02:00. > :02:04.sticking firmly to the line that there will be a currency union with
:02:05. > :02:10.the rest of the UK after independence. In fact the pound is
:02:11. > :02:15.not if you like English property. It is much Scotland's pound as the rest
:02:16. > :02:20.of the UK because it was originally a financial expression of you like
:02:21. > :02:27.of the 17 seven union, it is not the property of either side `` 1707.
:02:28. > :02:34.Either side refusing to seriously contemplate any alternative to the
:02:35. > :02:38.pound. No idea of a Scottish currency of its own, like the
:02:39. > :02:43.Norwegian kroner, or the Danish kroner, or indeed the Swiss
:02:44. > :02:47.currency. Many countries in the world have their own currency. Many
:02:48. > :02:55.people in the nationalist movement are puzzled that he has been
:02:56. > :02:58.reluctant to have a plan B. The take of the newspaper isn't hugely
:02:59. > :03:05.supportive of Alex Salmond's position, I think it's fair to say.
:03:06. > :03:12.The Telegraph even in Scotland is in favour of independence. I think they
:03:13. > :03:17.have a point. After the debate, the no campaign has Alex Salmond on the
:03:18. > :03:31.Runs in the wave it wasn't before `` On the Runs run `` on the run. It
:03:32. > :03:36.strikes me that if they leave the union, the politicians who
:03:37. > :03:40.controlled the debt have the right to say "I'm sorry, but we are not
:03:41. > :03:46.prepared to let you carry on using the pound. You can carry on using it
:03:47. > :03:52.as a currency but you cannot be part of the currency union." The argument
:03:53. > :03:56.of Alex Salmond is that if he gets his way and Scotland votes yes,
:03:57. > :04:00.while the politicians in Westminster are saying what they say now, they
:04:01. > :04:06.will have to rethink if the Scottish people have voted in the way that
:04:07. > :04:10.Alex Salmond would like. This isn't just about Alex Salmond and the SNP,
:04:11. > :04:14.there are many other parties which support independence and many people
:04:15. > :04:20.who support it who would not describe themselves as members of
:04:21. > :04:23.the SNP. It is wider than just Alex Salmond and that is one of the
:04:24. > :04:28.unfortunate ways the debate has been pitched. As far as the currency is
:04:29. > :04:34.concerned, absolutely there is nothing to stop Scotland printing
:04:35. > :04:40.its own Scottish pound, setting it as a one`to`one parity with the UK
:04:41. > :04:43.pound and continuing on that basis and having a currency board as the
:04:44. > :04:48.monetary authority, a system that has been used widely across the
:04:49. > :04:55.world. When Ireland became independent it did precisely this,
:04:56. > :04:59.coining its own Irish pound and British, UK pounds continued to
:05:00. > :05:05.circulate for 50 years, until it joined the euro. There are many
:05:06. > :05:09.alternatives, the independent Scottish currency, joining the euro,
:05:10. > :05:16.or having a currency board. The Daily Telegraph, is another story
:05:17. > :05:21.that caught your eye. New aspirin, in quotes. Perhaps we need to
:05:22. > :05:29.qualify that, because it isn't aspirin. This is another wonder drug
:05:30. > :05:35.story. It looks like it has potential, you would say. It has
:05:36. > :05:38.already been prescribed to people who are suffering from diabetes. The
:05:39. > :05:44.Telegraph are highlighting a study over a long period of time, looking
:05:45. > :05:48.at the life expectancy of the people on the drug. What they found, when
:05:49. > :05:53.you took out other factors like obesity, smoking, lifestyle factors,
:05:54. > :05:58.people who took the drug are more likely to live 50% longer than those
:05:59. > :06:03.who are not on the drug. The Telegraph suggesting that may have
:06:04. > :06:07.applications for other people, slowing down heart disease, some
:06:08. > :06:13.sorts of cancer. They looked at a previous study that was done into
:06:14. > :06:24.mice, good news for them, finding that their life span was expended by
:06:25. > :06:30.one fifth `` extended stop for `` extended. We don't often hear good
:06:31. > :06:35.news for mice in these stories! Do you buy this one? I don't, I am very
:06:36. > :06:41.suspicious of these wonder drugs that tend to crop up, when other
:06:42. > :06:47.drugs are losing their patents and the drug companies are in need of
:06:48. > :06:51.numerical drugs to restore them to profitability. We have this with
:06:52. > :06:56.statins as well, considerable evidence that they are benefits to
:06:57. > :06:59.people with heart conditions but it isn't a wonder drug and we have a
:07:00. > :07:05.terrible tendency in this country, especially the popular press,
:07:06. > :07:07.picking up something like this one week which appears to be the
:07:08. > :07:15.solution to all medical problems, discovering later that it isn't. I
:07:16. > :07:20.think that this drug has been around for a while, it isn't a drug
:07:21. > :07:25.company. This is a drug that has been around for a long time. This is
:07:26. > :07:30.a study looking at the people who have taken the drug over a period of
:07:31. > :07:35.ten, 15 years, and it is something that is reasonably cheap, but he is
:07:36. > :07:41.right that the media are guilty of dressing up a drug as a wonder drug.
:07:42. > :07:45.Drugs have side effects, but drugs like statins have saved the lives of
:07:46. > :07:50.thousands of people. But I don't think one should take the opposite
:07:51. > :07:54.extreme and save that you shouldn't take any drugs at all. You should
:07:55. > :08:01.just be careful. The headline is eye`catching, but what we said about
:08:02. > :08:05.aspirin yesterday, and now we have "new aspirin", which we've
:08:06. > :08:12.established isn't aspirin at all! A bit like new Labour! The Guardian
:08:13. > :08:17.front page, a story we have been leading with, the US weighing up air
:08:18. > :08:23.raids to stop the surge of jihadists. Oliver, clearly thought
:08:24. > :08:32.being given in Washington to what they make, or may not do in Iraq. A
:08:33. > :08:40.terrible dilemma. It more pictures of fleeing families, displaced `` it
:08:41. > :08:44.is really grim. It is awful. The Obama administration is in a tricky
:08:45. > :08:48.situation. A couple of months ago they will doubt air strikes and now
:08:49. > :08:53.they seem to be suggesting that his back on the table, in a limited
:08:54. > :09:00.sense. And the idea of humanitarian aid drops. They don't want to be
:09:01. > :09:06.seen to be propping up the regime in Iraq, the regime of Maliki in Iraq
:09:07. > :09:14.which is deeply unpopular. They need to find different ground. Any kind
:09:15. > :09:18.of bombing is pretty indiscriminate and pretty difficult. The only way
:09:19. > :09:21.you can do it really is to have boots on the ground which isn't
:09:22. > :09:28.really a possibility. The keywords in the headline, "weighing up", it's
:09:29. > :09:34.a question of what they can realistically do, if anything.
:09:35. > :09:38.Indeed, as you indicated, the administration is obviously very
:09:39. > :09:45.cautious because this isn't the first air strikes in Iraq, but it
:09:46. > :09:49.would be the first since the Iraqi war and they don't want to repeat
:09:50. > :09:55.history. Somebody's going to have to intervene here. There are disturbing
:09:56. > :10:01.echoes here of the ethnic cleansing that took place in Kosovo in 1999,
:10:02. > :10:05.and eventually after great reluctance, the Western powers had
:10:06. > :10:12.to intervene because it was an humanitarian emergency. People
:10:13. > :10:17.fleeing for the hills, an unacceptable situation. One reason I
:10:18. > :10:22.fear this has been neglected in Western public opinion is because it
:10:23. > :10:28.is coinciding with the crisis in Gaza. This in many ways is more
:10:29. > :10:31.serious than that. It's also a situation when air strikes would be
:10:32. > :10:38.appropriate, as would providing more material assistance to the Peshmerga
:10:39. > :10:43.forces on the ground, those opposing the IS. It is a relatively small
:10:44. > :10:48.organisation, Islamic State. It has managed to acquire significant and
:10:49. > :11:01.France is in armour, arms and ammunition from the Iraqi army ``
:11:02. > :11:05.significant acquisitions of armour. A limited intervention on
:11:06. > :11:10.humanitarian grounds seems to be unanswerable. I'm going to move on
:11:11. > :11:15.because we spoke extensively on this slot yesterday about a man by the
:11:16. > :11:20.name of Boris Johnson. He features on the front of the Daily Express.
:11:21. > :11:24.Interesting to see how they have taken it forwards. The Daily Express
:11:25. > :11:29.went quite big on the EU yesterday and they are doing the same again
:11:30. > :11:33.today. They say the shake`up is simple, we just need to get tough,
:11:34. > :11:40.he tells Cameron, the day after saying he wants to be an MP. Try
:11:41. > :11:45.telling that to Angela Merkel! Don't be under any illusions, this isn't
:11:46. > :11:49.about the EU, it is about Boris and a future leadership Challenge Cup if
:11:50. > :12:02.Cameron loses in 2015. As clear as that already? Yes. `` a challenge,
:12:03. > :12:10.if Cameron loses. If Cameron wins in 2015, Boris really isn't a threat. I
:12:11. > :12:14.can see Cameron sending him off to become the Health Secretary, maybe
:12:15. > :12:19.something else that would damage his reputation. If Cameron loses, he
:12:20. > :12:23.will almost certainly have to resign, and Boris is positioning
:12:24. > :12:28.himself to the right of the party on Europe as the person who can unite
:12:29. > :12:35.the party and take back from Ukip while being slightly socially
:12:36. > :12:39.liberal. The idea that any EU negotiations is easy is "for the
:12:40. > :12:45.birds", because it won't be. It is, the gated and technical. What is
:12:46. > :12:49.your take? This is the kind of thing that annoys a lot of people in
:12:50. > :12:53.Scotland because they say that if the glass go council leader was
:12:54. > :12:59.considering becoming an MSP, would it be all over the UK press? Of
:13:00. > :13:02.course not. It's a compelling story, on personality grounds if
:13:03. > :13:10.nothing else. And as you rightly indicated, this is a question of
:13:11. > :13:13.who's going to be the next leader of the Conservative Party and possibly
:13:14. > :13:22.the next Prime Minister. This is really hard ball politics. Boris
:13:23. > :13:26.Johnson is absolutely going for the goolies here because he knows this
:13:27. > :13:31.is a situation that David Cameron cannot cope with, Cameron is boxed
:13:32. > :13:35.in. He cannot turn around and say that he would contemplate a British
:13:36. > :13:41.departure from the EU because he has staked his reputation on
:13:42. > :13:47.renegotiating. He has David Cameron in a corner and this is going to be
:13:48. > :13:52.a very interesting stand`off because the Cameron supporters are not going
:13:53. > :13:58.to allow this to continue, they can see the threat, they know where
:13:59. > :14:02.Boris is vulnerable. The interview with him before, questions about his
:14:03. > :14:06.probity, journalistic past, his private life. You will see a lot
:14:07. > :14:11.more of this coming out in the press as he gets closer to Parliament. On
:14:12. > :14:16.that note, we will come back and do this in an hour. Thank you for
:14:17. > :14:21.joining us. That's it for the papers. Back at 11:30pm. Stay with
:14:22. > :14:25.us because we will have more on the situation in Iraqi, as we've been
:14:26. > :14:32.discussing. Coming up next, Sportsday.