19/08/2014 The Papers

European athletics championships in Swansea and the European swimming in

Berlin. That's in Sportsday in 15 minutes, after the papers.

Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing

us tomorrow. With me are Neil Midgley, media commentator from

Forbes.com, and the political commentator and journalist, Miranda

Green. We start with the financial times. It is high lighting how rail

fares will rise 3.5% from January in another above`inflation increase.

The Daily Telegraph says husbands who bully or intimidate their

partners should be jailed under a new offence of domestic abu The

Metro says first`time buyers in London need to find an extra ?63,000

compared to this time last year. The Daily Mail claims nurses are being

asked to question elderly patients about whether they would agree to a

do not resuscitate order. And private patient income soars at NHS

Trust is the headline on the front of Guardian We are going to start

with an interesting story in the Daily Telegraph. Jail for husbands

who control their wives. A proposed new domestic abuse law would punish

spouses who intimidate or bully. Some would say about time. It is

interesting this, because some parts of domestic abuse which are not

physical are already covered by stalking laws, harassment laws, but

experts say not enough. It is difficult to get successful

prosecutions in some case. They say the law is ambiguous and needs to be

tightened up and possibly even a new category of offence needs to be

created for for example someone within a relationship systemically

bullies and intimidates and provokes fear in a partner or someone they

were living with. It is really interesting, because the legal

experts may say there's a need for it and the Home Office is going to

go through this consultation process on what's necessary. This is just a

proposal at this stage. But the way the Daily Telegraph has written the

story makes it clear that possibly some Daily Telegraph readers,

perhaps the Daily Telegraph themselves, perhaps a wider category

of people, might final easy about this. It comes on the back of a

so`called Cinderella law, which means they can prosecute parents for

emotional effect of a child for example. It is really interesting,

because it's the law and it's the state starting to venture inside the

home into quite often ambiguous situations, some might feel. It will

be very controversial, which is why it is the main story on the Daily

Telegraph. Neil, one also wonders how you are going to prove this

intimidation, bullying. There are no physical marks necessarily. That's

going to be problematic. That is going to be a problem. We have to be

careful about this area, because domestic abuse including emotional

abuse short of violence is a very serious issue. I don't think anybody

would want to downplay that. Absolutely. At the same time, I do

wonder whether criminalising the abusive partner, I don't know how

that helps in a lot of situations. What a lot of people need when they

are the victim of that kind of abuse is actually help in getting out of

the relationship or in sticking up for themselves. Obviously there may

be children of the relationship as well. Not necessarily helpful for

them to have dad sent to prison. It is a very vexed area, because you

don't want to downplay the seriousness of the problem, but at

the same time as Miranda said, shoving the criminal law inside

people's domestic arrangements is a very blunt instrument. It is going

to be very difficult to draft these offences. And for the courts to

interpret them and for the police to know when they are investigating a

crime and when they are just breaking up a domestic. Sure. It is

out for consultation at the moment. That's the period that it is going

to be entering. It is going to be a lively debate on whether or not this

makes sense. We should point out also, this story does make it clear

several perhaps in, that it will of course apply to male victims of

domestic, psychological et cetera, even though the headline says

husbands. It would work both ways. Staying with the Daily Telegraph,

this could be good news for pensioners, for all of us, those who

are going to be drawing their pensions in the future pension fees

cap could add ?1 billion to savers' policy. Nsions in the future pension

fees cap could add ?1 billion to savers' policy. `` pots. I think

this is while you are aKrug your pension pot. Most people in the

private sector have what's called a defined contribution scheme where

you don't get a guaranteed payout at the end. You build up a pot of money

based on what you pay. In your pension provider often is taking a

fee, which could be 1% of your fund every year. Obviously 1% doesn't

sound much but if you think you might be paying in for 20 or 30 or

40 years, that could be a third of your pension pot by the time they've

finished the skimming this off the top. The good news aspect of this

story is that when the Government said they were going to put in place

this 0.75% cap on these fees, they thought it might enrich us by ?200

million a year in total. But no. It might be ?1 billion, according to

one of the regulated companies. We are all going to... I'm smiling.

Miranda, you are smiling. It is a good news story, so we should all

hurrah that and it will affect most of us I think as we get older. But

there's a slight sting in the tail. There always is. What is it? One of

the experts interviewed by the Daily Telegraph points out that the

companies have seen their profits fall since these measures have been

proposed and are being introduced the, because going to hit their

proof pretty, the profits of the big insurance companies. He starts to

speculate they might find other fees that are not covered by the new

regulations as ways of fleecing people collecting their pension pot.

I'm shocked at that. Who would have thought it? The pensions industry is

seeing such a shake`up at the moment. The annuities, not having to

buy an annuity, that's a seismic change. If you are an insurance

company, you can't reconstitute your profits by new charges if the

product has disappeared completely. Indeed. They are going to have to

find another way of hitting their bottom line in a better way. The

financial times Miranda. From a good news story to a bad news story

potentially for millions of people. Fair's fare, inflation falls but

ticket prices go off the rails. Yes. In general terms, in terms of cost

of living crisis, as Labour has successfully dubbed it. Eyes rolling

here, but it has been quite a successful campaign. Very

successful. The fact that overall inflation is going down is good for

most of us. But if you are a commuter it looks as if next year

might be very difficult indeed, because the Department for

Transport, even though they insist no decision has been taken yet, may

be agreeing to a rise in commuter rail fares of 3.5%, which is much

higher than inflation. That will cause a great deal of anger among a

lot of people and a lot of people who will have a vote next May in a

general election. Which is why perhaps funnily enough it might not

happen. It may not. They have been very careful all day to say no

decision has been taken. They are even starting to say for example

that the department is looking closely at the cost of travel as our

ongoing commitment to those famous hard`working people. What's

interesting is the Government uses the RPI index, 1% above RP positive.

To calculate this. Yet if they are talking about increasing pensions or

benefits it is the lower CPI. It is a massive scam isn't it? If you are

a commuter. If I'm going to be dispassionate about this and... And

I'm being devil's advocate, can I point that out to anyone about to

good on to Twitter? The rail industry costs a lot of money. That

has to be divide up between fare payers and taxpayers. Either the

people commuting are going to pay higher fares. If the costs are going

up overall it has to come either from higher fares or higher taxes on

people not using the trains. So you might say, particularly if you live

outside the South East, here in the South East we all worry about these

things because we all have to use these trains to get into work. If

you are elsewhere in the country, where rail is not such a usual

method of commuting, where I come from in Leeds or Bradford, then you

might want the southerners to pay a few more quid on their season ticket

and take a few more quid off your tax bill. But northerners use trains

as will. your hands. I'm looking forward to

reading twitter on this. Absolutely. The minister today dared

to suggest that some rail fares were fair. She is feeling the full fury

of the community public for those remarks. Not the smartest thing to

say on a day when you are announcing the fans going up.

Thank you Neil Midgley, media commentator from Forbes.com

and the political commentator and journalist Miranda Green.

You'll both be back at half eleven for another look at the

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