09/08/2014

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:00:00. > :00:00.up isolation centres. A blue drama `` blue`collar drama

:00:07. > :00:17.starring the late Philip Seymour Hoffman in the film review.

:00:18. > :00:24.Welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us

:00:25. > :00:31.tomorrow. With me are the political commentator Jo Phillips and Nigel

:00:32. > :00:36.Nelson. Let's get on with it. Let's start with the Sunday Telegraph. The

:00:37. > :00:41.situation in Iraq dominates most of the front pages. The headline says,

:00:42. > :00:47.save us from death. Obama vows to smash the militant in northern Iraq.

:00:48. > :00:50.The Observer also highlights how minority communities are fleeing

:00:51. > :00:55.from the Islamic State fighters. It points out that tradition aircraft

:00:56. > :01:00.have joined the relief effort. A picture Baroness Warsi is on the

:01:01. > :01:04.front page of the Independent. The former Tory Minister resigned over

:01:05. > :01:10.Gaza. Now she is speaking out. The mail on Sunday claims that a UKIP

:01:11. > :01:13.MEP is coaching candidates to emulate the public speaking

:01:14. > :01:21.techniques of among others, Adolf Hitler. UK airport staff are set to

:01:22. > :01:26.strike over fears they will be the first to catch the deadly Ebola

:01:27. > :01:33.virus if it comes to the UK. Let's begin. Thank you very much for

:01:34. > :01:36.being with us. Let's start with the horrible picture on the front page

:01:37. > :01:43.of the Sunday Telegraph. A harrowing eyewitness account. The first

:01:44. > :01:51.Western journalist to get into the mountains where the Yazidi Kurds are

:01:52. > :01:56.stranded. Yes. Through his copy, you can see that he is quite angry about

:01:57. > :02:04.it. He is on the frontline of what is going on. He makes the point

:02:05. > :02:10.about Americans dropping aid from 15,000 feet. Without a parachute. It

:02:11. > :02:16.then breaks open and is useless. The other point is that he makes in the

:02:17. > :02:22.story, the aid delivered so far is not enough to stem the growing

:02:23. > :02:27.humanitarian crisis. Journalism has changed hugely. In the old days, a

:02:28. > :02:33.reporter in the field was the only one who experienced first`hand. Now

:02:34. > :02:35.you get journalists back in the office in London, following the

:02:36. > :02:45.whole thing on Twitter are in real time. He was telling me about ISIS,

:02:46. > :02:49.one kilometre, two kilometres away. That was coming off Twitter.

:02:50. > :02:54.Everybody is now involved in the journalistic community. ISIS are

:02:55. > :03:01.very sophisticated on social media as well. Even the refugees, they

:03:02. > :03:05.have been talking to Reuters on mobile phones, saying they have no

:03:06. > :03:14.water, but they have mobile phones. It is very bizarre. There is

:03:15. > :03:18.something absolutely pitiful and poignant that you can have a mobile

:03:19. > :03:24.phone signal but you do not have any water, all in`off to it.

:03:25. > :03:36.Helicopters, how ridiculous to just throw it out the window? The

:03:37. > :03:41.temperatures of 50 Celsius. In terms of the diplomacy on that, we have

:03:42. > :03:46.been hearing that the US has launched four more airstrikes to

:03:47. > :03:50.defend civilians. It does not say where. But let's issue and it will

:03:51. > :04:00.probably be here. Obama is saying that it is a long process. He has

:04:01. > :04:06.hoisted himself slightly by getting out of the Dunmore, only to go back

:04:07. > :04:10.in again. It will now be a long haul. It does not sound like they

:04:11. > :04:19.have any sort of long`term plan. They either have to go in very hard

:04:20. > :04:25.and make sure you do the job, because ISIS, or Islamic State, are

:04:26. > :04:30.advancing very rapidly through Iraq, Syria and Lebanon on. At the same

:04:31. > :04:35.time, there is not much about Gaza on the front page of the papers. I

:04:36. > :04:39.think there will be a lot of people who will be looking at Obama and

:04:40. > :04:45.David Cameron, and other leaders, saying that you are doing this here,

:04:46. > :04:51.what have you been about Gaza? We have been hearing that today,

:04:52. > :04:57.protesters in central London. They are demonstrating against Israel's

:04:58. > :05:02.actions in Gaza. Some people call it hypocrisy. There is a fantastic

:05:03. > :05:12.quote on the front page of the absorber. `` the Observer. From the

:05:13. > :05:22.Archbishop of Irbil's Catholics. There are only 40 Christians left in

:05:23. > :05:30.this area. It is so in printed into our memories of childhood and Bible

:05:31. > :05:33.classes. He says, trust is broken. 2000 years, all these minorities

:05:34. > :05:40.have lived there. Now they have to leave. It is quite interesting about

:05:41. > :05:46.the timescale. What Obama is signalling, this is a much bigger

:05:47. > :05:51.job than just refugees. They are hugely important. It back in the

:05:52. > :05:57.situation, America wants regime change. They want the government to

:05:58. > :06:03.stand down and a new one in its place. There is a lot of diplomacy

:06:04. > :06:09.on the basis that we would not invade again. To get it sorted out.

:06:10. > :06:16.At the moment, the absolute priority has to be those up to 150,000

:06:17. > :06:20.people, on that mountain. Let's look on the story on the front page of

:06:21. > :06:25.the Observer, about care work is going on strike. The headline is not

:06:26. > :06:30.particularly about the care workers. It is about a very rich

:06:31. > :06:34.man, a private equity firm, buying up UK nursing homes and are

:06:35. > :06:42.proposing, allegedly, to slash workers' wages. He is the managing

:06:43. > :06:47.director of Bridgepoint capital. They have brought up Care UK, who

:06:48. > :06:51.run quite a lot of care homes. This is a dispute that has been going on

:06:52. > :07:01.for several weeks, among carers, who are having their wages cut. This is

:07:02. > :07:05.a bigger story, for many reasons. If you pay people appalling wages for a

:07:06. > :07:12.job that every single politician says is the most important, and we

:07:13. > :07:17.want to treat the elderly with respect, what about treating the

:07:18. > :07:21.workers who do the job with respect? All sorts of questions about

:07:22. > :07:28.privatisation of healthcare services, questions about the

:07:29. > :07:34.profits that are made. Inside the Observer, a former editor, he has

:07:35. > :07:39.written a really good think piece about the state of capitalism. It is

:07:40. > :07:44.not tell you anything that you would not expect the Observer to say...

:07:45. > :07:53.But what it does talk about, which I think is quite interesting, about

:07:54. > :08:02.trade unionists. We have all got mixed views about trade unions. They

:08:03. > :08:06.have been lambasted quite often. But when you look at people in this

:08:07. > :08:12.very, very low paid, low prospect, low skill set. You see what unions

:08:13. > :08:18.are for. That is another side to the story. There are a some instances

:08:19. > :08:23.where the day can run industries more efficiently than the dull, but

:08:24. > :08:28.this is talking about paying the people who work a decent living.

:08:29. > :08:32.There is always going to be a pragmatism. The money is not

:08:33. > :08:42.therefore the day to pay for everything, but there is a balance.

:08:43. > :08:55.Let's have a look at the Sunday express. Page two. Will be a level

:08:56. > :09:09.purchase the results collapse? `` purge. Will it be reflected by a dip

:09:10. > :09:15.in grades? A fascinating story. I have a youngster who is in the

:09:16. > :09:21.middle of all of this. So I am kind of living with it. The issue,

:09:22. > :09:25.Michael Gove was absolutely right, that you cannot have grades

:09:26. > :09:29.constantly going up so you could not distinguish who really was a

:09:30. > :09:34.top`class student, and who wasn't. He has made the whole thing a bit

:09:35. > :09:38.more difficult. So there will be a greater spread. What the story seems

:09:39. > :09:46.to suggest, the universities are decrying that. If you do not get

:09:47. > :09:50.three a stars, you do not get the university of your choice. But there

:09:51. > :09:55.will be plenty through the clearing system who will be able to find a

:09:56. > :09:58.course elsewhere. But if Michael Gove has left the Department of

:09:59. > :10:03.education with a mismatch between the universities and the grades that

:10:04. > :10:10.people get, they will be a problem. We will find out next week when the

:10:11. > :10:15.results come out. Because there is such competition for places, if

:10:16. > :10:20.universities are still asking for a triple star, or whatever, and very

:10:21. > :10:26.few people get it, then those places will have to be field. That is the

:10:27. > :10:30.point. It may well be that there will still be enough places, but

:10:31. > :10:37.your first choice, if you do not get the grades, you do not get back. To

:10:38. > :10:42.complicate things slightly, you have got the International baccalaureate

:10:43. > :10:46.coming in. Also Cambridge preuniversity qualifications. They

:10:47. > :10:49.are also in the mix. Students will be getting courses based on those

:10:50. > :10:59.two as well as the grades coming up. What are your children's grades

:11:00. > :11:06.expecting? He tells me that he would do terribly well. We will see. Let's

:11:07. > :11:17.go to the Mail on Sunday. A big headline. UKIP tells its youth wing,

:11:18. > :11:28.copy Hitler. Really? I know. This is in the Mail. He is facing a storm of

:11:29. > :11:38.protest. At one point, he was involved with the Conservatives. He

:11:39. > :11:44.is an MEP. He has been training one of the UKIP members who are standing

:11:45. > :11:50.`` thinking of standing in Parliamentary elections. He is

:11:51. > :11:55.giving advice on how to be better orators. He says that they should

:11:56. > :12:00.take tips from a hateful figure who achieved a great deal. He talks

:12:01. > :12:09.about Hitler being a magnetic and forceful public speaker. To be

:12:10. > :12:16.fair... We must be fair. He said, this is the performance. It was very

:12:17. > :12:21.much about the techniques of it. There is a statement that the Mail

:12:22. > :12:24.has given us. It says: I was talking about a whole range of public

:12:25. > :12:32.speakers. I also mentioned Tony Blair. At no point did I endorse

:12:33. > :12:36.Hitler or anybody else. We were only discussing public speaking. Hitler

:12:37. > :12:39.and the Nazis were monsters and I am angry that I'm being asked questions

:12:40. > :12:45.about whether we would wish to be linked with them. Yet another cheap

:12:46. > :12:51.shot to deal with from the media. That is going to sell copies. It is

:12:52. > :13:01.the one bit of fun in the papers. Fun? Wow. What have we come to. He

:13:02. > :13:05.also named Mussolini. An awful lot of politicians to talk about the way

:13:06. > :13:18.that Hitler actually spoke. It was an extraordinary performance.

:13:19. > :13:48.That is it for the papers. Coming up next it is the Film Review.

:13:49. > :13:49.Hello and welcome to the programme. Joining me is Jason Solomons.