09/08/2014 The Papers

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starring the late Philip Seymour Hoffman in the film review.

Welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us

tomorrow. With me are the political commentator Jo Phillips and Nigel

Nelson. Let's get on with it. Let's start with the Sunday Telegraph. The

situation in Iraq dominates most of the front pages. The headline says,

save us from death. Obama vows to smash the militant in northern Iraq.

The Observer also highlights how minority communities are fleeing

from the Islamic State fighters. It points out that tradition aircraft

have joined the relief effort. A picture Baroness Warsi is on the

front page of the Independent. The former Tory Minister resigned over

Gaza. Now she is speaking out. The mail on Sunday claims that a UKIP

MEP is coaching candidates to emulate the public speaking

techniques of among others, Adolf Hitler. UK airport staff are set to

strike over fears they will be the first to catch the deadly Ebola

virus if it comes to the UK. Let's begin. Thank you very much for

being with us. Let's start with the horrible picture on the front page

of the Sunday Telegraph. A harrowing eyewitness account. The first

Western journalist to get into the mountains where the Yazidi Kurds are

stranded. Yes. Through his copy, you can see that he is quite angry about

it. He is on the frontline of what is going on. He makes the point

about Americans dropping aid from 15,000 feet. Without a parachute. It

then breaks open and is useless. The other point is that he makes in the

story, the aid delivered so far is not enough to stem the growing

humanitarian crisis. Journalism has changed hugely. In the old days, a

reporter in the field was the only one who experienced first`hand. Now

you get journalists back in the office in London, following the

whole thing on Twitter are in real time. He was telling me about ISIS,

one kilometre, two kilometres away. That was coming off Twitter.

Everybody is now involved in the journalistic community. ISIS are

very sophisticated on social media as well. Even the refugees, they

have been talking to Reuters on mobile phones, saying they have no

water, but they have mobile phones. It is very bizarre. There is

something absolutely pitiful and poignant that you can have a mobile

phone signal but you do not have any water, all in`off to it.

Helicopters, how ridiculous to just throw it out the window? The

temperatures of 50 Celsius. In terms of the diplomacy on that, we have

been hearing that the US has launched four more airstrikes to

defend civilians. It does not say where. But let's issue and it will

probably be here. Obama is saying that it is a long process. He has

hoisted himself slightly by getting out of the Dunmore, only to go back

in again. It will now be a long haul. It does not sound like they

have any sort of long`term plan. They either have to go in very hard

and make sure you do the job, because ISIS, or Islamic State, are

advancing very rapidly through Iraq, Syria and Lebanon on. At the same

time, there is not much about Gaza on the front page of the papers. I

think there will be a lot of people who will be looking at Obama and

David Cameron, and other leaders, saying that you are doing this here,

what have you been about Gaza? We have been hearing that today,

protesters in central London. They are demonstrating against Israel's

actions in Gaza. Some people call it hypocrisy. There is a fantastic

quote on the front page of the absorber. `` the Observer. From the

Archbishop of Irbil's Catholics. There are only 40 Christians left in

this area. It is so in printed into our memories of childhood and Bible

classes. He says, trust is broken. 2000 years, all these minorities

have lived there. Now they have to leave. It is quite interesting about

the timescale. What Obama is signalling, this is a much bigger

job than just refugees. They are hugely important. It back in the

situation, America wants regime change. They want the government to

stand down and a new one in its place. There is a lot of diplomacy

on the basis that we would not invade again. To get it sorted out.

At the moment, the absolute priority has to be those up to 150,000

people, on that mountain. Let's look on the story on the front page of

the Observer, about care work is going on strike. The headline is not

particularly about the care workers. It is about a very rich

man, a private equity firm, buying up UK nursing homes and are

proposing, allegedly, to slash workers' wages. He is the managing

director of Bridgepoint capital. They have brought up Care UK, who

run quite a lot of care homes. This is a dispute that has been going on

for several weeks, among carers, who are having their wages cut. This is

a bigger story, for many reasons. If you pay people appalling wages for a

job that every single politician says is the most important, and we

want to treat the elderly with respect, what about treating the

workers who do the job with respect? All sorts of questions about

privatisation of healthcare services, questions about the

profits that are made. Inside the Observer, a former editor, he has

written a really good think piece about the state of capitalism. It is

not tell you anything that you would not expect the Observer to say...

But what it does talk about, which I think is quite interesting, about

trade unionists. We have all got mixed views about trade unions. They

have been lambasted quite often. But when you look at people in this

very, very low paid, low prospect, low skill set. You see what unions

are for. That is another side to the story. There are a some instances

where the day can run industries more efficiently than the dull, but

this is talking about paying the people who work a decent living.

There is always going to be a pragmatism. The money is not

therefore the day to pay for everything, but there is a balance.

Let's have a look at the Sunday express. Page two. Will be a level

purchase the results collapse? `` purge. Will it be reflected by a dip

in grades? A fascinating story. I have a youngster who is in the

middle of all of this. So I am kind of living with it. The issue,

Michael Gove was absolutely right, that you cannot have grades

constantly going up so you could not distinguish who really was a

top`class student, and who wasn't. He has made the whole thing a bit

more difficult. So there will be a greater spread. What the story seems

to suggest, the universities are decrying that. If you do not get

three a stars, you do not get the university of your choice. But there

will be plenty through the clearing system who will be able to find a

course elsewhere. But if Michael Gove has left the Department of

education with a mismatch between the universities and the grades that

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

results come out. Because there is such competition for places, if

universities are still asking for a triple star, or whatever, and very

few people get it, then those places will have to be field. That is the

point. It may well be that there will still be enough places, but

your first choice, if you do not get the grades, you do not get back. To

complicate things slightly, you have got the International baccalaureate

coming in. Also Cambridge preuniversity qualifications. They

are also in the mix. Students will be getting courses based on those

two as well as the grades coming up. What are your children's grades

expecting? He tells me that he would do terribly well. We will see. Let's

go to the Mail on Sunday. A big headline. UKIP tells its youth wing,

copy Hitler. Really? I know. This is in the Mail. He is facing a storm of

protest. At one point, he was involved with the Conservatives. He

is an MEP. He has been training one of the UKIP members who are standing

`` thinking of standing in Parliamentary elections. He is

giving advice on how to be better orators. He says that they should

take tips from a hateful figure who achieved a great deal. He talks

about Hitler being a magnetic and forceful public speaker. To be

fair... We must be fair. He said, this is the performance. It was very

much about the techniques of it. There is a statement that the Mail

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

speakers. I also mentioned Tony Blair. At no point did I endorse

Hitler or anybody else. We were only discussing public speaking. Hitler

and the Nazis were monsters and I am angry that I'm being asked questions

about whether we would wish to be linked with them. Yet another cheap

shot to deal with from the media. That is going to sell copies. It is

the one bit of fun in the papers. Fun? Wow. What have we come to. He

also named Mussolini. An awful lot of politicians to talk about the way

that Hitler actually spoke. It was an extraordinary performance.

That is it for the papers. Coming up next it is the Film Review.

Hello and welcome to the programme. Joining me is Jason Solomons.