03/09/2014 The Papers

The British nurse who contracted the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone has been

discharged from a London hospital. Will Pooley said that he is

wonderfully lucky to have survived. Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are the

Telegraph columnist Tim Stanley and the broadcaster and football

commentator Clarke Carlisle. The Financial Times highlights the

advance of the FTSE, which is close to a record high despite the unrest

in the Middle East and Europe. The Telegraph leads on the warning

from one of the world's major investment banks that Scottish

independence could provoke a sterling crisis.

The Express warns kettles and lawnmowers could be next after the

EU banned high`powered vacuum cleaners.

The Guardian says Barack Obama and David Cameron will use the Nato

summit to forge a military coalition to destroy the Islamic State

operation in northern Iraq. The Metro also leads on Islamic

State. It says the militant believed to have killed two American

journalists in Syria will be hunted like Osama Bin Laden, according to a

former security minister. The Independent says Barack Obama has

begun to look alarmingly impotent in the face of the international crisis

in the Middle East and Russia. And the Mirror has a picture of

Brett and Naghemeh King, reunited with their son Ashya. They say their

period in a Spanish prison has taken its toll on him.

The front page of the Independent is quite arresting. Your move, Mr

President. He is arriving for the Nato summit. There does not seem to

have been a coherent response to the crisis in Iraq, Syria and also the

crisis in Eastern Europe. That is what they are trying to convey with

this headline and this question. What amazes me is that there is this

expectation for decisions to be made instantaneously. And on as matter as

grave and as huge as this, obviously we do not want procrastination and

we do need action, but this has to be done from a basis of knowledge,

effectiveness and also support. The last time Barack Obama went into

some then bullheaded, we had the War on Terror and that ended in

disaster, costing lives. President Bush. President Bush, sorry. The

last time we tried to attack something like this head on. I don't

think that they should mistake patients and searching for some

discernment and sagacity as weakness. He is a thoughtful man,

who takes his time to think through all of the ramifications of a

particular move, but some would say that it is now turning into

procrastination. And the suggestion last week that we do not have a

strategy, which he now says was a misunderstanding, some say that is

dangerous. He was not misquoted. This front page is extraordinary

because the Independent is a centre`left newspaper and it says

that a coherent response is conspicuous by its absence and

President Obama is beginning to look alarmingly impotent. After six years

in power, to say that President Obama is looking alarmingly impotent

is very surprising. Having said that, I have to come to his

defence. First, he has taken action. There have been US airstrikes

against ISIS. It is not true that he has done nothing. Second, I'm not

sure what a coherent strategy is, what would be appropriate, or if

simply having one for the sake of having one is a good thing. The War

on Terror was a coherent strategy but it led to the crisis in Iraq.

And I wonder if this slightly halting style of President Obama is

the only thing that stands between us and world War three. I don't want

John McCain. There was a map of countries in the world that Senator

John McCain said he would like to go to war with and it covers almost

every single continent. I want a careful and deliberate president. I

did what action eventually when it is necessary and the President has

done that and I don't think it's necessary to lay out some grand,

Western strategy especially when you're dealing with band. Very well

armed and very well funded bandits but bandits nonetheless. I don't

want to lay out a ten year plan. The future is much too uncertain. We

have spoken about Tony Blair, George Bush and Iraq. Is this a president

who still has this conflict, which he voted against and argued

against, is that what is weighing on him? There is a legacy in both

countries for both David Cameron and Barack Obama to contemplate when

making decisions. The lack of support for the UK going into that

conflict had a huge ramifications on the decision`making process for

David Cameron and that is why he is reticent to get into bed on this

one. But when we talk about fighting bandits, President Obama cannot go

in there and just bomb the nation to hell because they are a Morpheus. We

don't know where ISIS is hiding and we cannot go in there and carpet

bomb the entire nation because the ramifications would be huge for

everyone! Tim Tom is the big discussion that is taking place

between Barack Obama and David Cameron, is it really about working

out how to get Bashar al`Assad onboard? Is that really what is

causing the log jamming? A strategic view of what to do? Because if they

are going to go after ISIS, whatever the acronym for this organisation

is, its paces are in Syria. `` bases. I don't know. If they were to

do that, it would be an enormous mistake. An example of the enemy of

my enemy not really being my friend at all. I heard an interesting

argument suggesting why they should talk to Bashar al`Assad. Obviously

the basis for ISIS are in Syria. But Bashar al`Assad has never directly

threatened the US or the UK. ISIS has. But when the crisis started in

Syria, one of the first thing Bashar al`Assad did was release the ice

star militants from prison in order to split the opposition against

him. `` ISIS style militants. This is well documented. He would dilute

the democratic opposition by releasing people who would make its

politics far more complicated. And that worked very well because the

narrative of the Syrian civil war has moved away from the Arab string

`` Arab Spring and democracy and has now become him being the last man

against extremism. Don't forget that Barack Obama was elected on an

anti`war ticket. For people to come down on him and say why are you not

being stronger on Iraq is a question of short`term memory loss and we

have to remember he got into power to get America out of the Middle

East and he is not going to rush to get them back in. With all due

respect, or a man who does not like Barack Obama, you have done a great

job in defending him. In these last ten minutes, you have defended his

policy against some ruthless cutthroats. At this point in time,

I'm glad this is not the second term of John McCain. John McCain and

Sarah Halen! LAUGHTER Sarah Palin! Why am I laughing? I don't know? We

are very balanced. Let's not go there. The Mirror has a fantastic

story for this particular family. The Kings have been reunited with

Ashya after being in prison for three nights, four nights, and this

is a photo that will gladden the hearts of many people. A fantastic

story in the end. There will be serious questions asked about what

they have had to go through. Not just their fight against the

hospital and the police and Interpol or whoever it was who picked them up

in Spain but the fact that this has all been put on them on top of the

intense trauma that they are having to go through, supporting and

looking after their son and finding the necessary treatment for him. I

think that there are two issues in this story. Obviously there is the

personal and the actual family involved in this story. The hospital

have many questions to answer about their processes. And the lines of

communication with the family and also the police. That is one issue.

The second one, which is almost an umbrella issue, is that of

paediatric brain tumours and how we treat and diagnose and research them

in England. It has the highest mortality rate of all cancers but

less than 0.7% of the funding for cancer research goes into

researching paediatric brain tumours. This is why I'm humbled and

honoured to be a patron of the Katie Holmes trust, a poor young girl from

Preston who died from paediatric brain tumour. The treatment she

needed was not available in the UK. And they are now researching

themselves and trying to raise the various funds to launch research

themselves. And this is another question. Why is the research not

there for paediatric brain tumours when it has the highest mortality

rate of all cancers? This whole debate has resurfaced about the

quality of the nature of the cancer care in this country because of the

situation regarding the Kings. Is it some then that you think Jeremy Hunt

and the government should look at now? Or is this something that

happens, is talked about for five minutes and then disappears? I don't

see why the treatment should be available in Spain and the Czech

Republic is not available in this country as well. I think the thing

they have to immediately deal with is the use of the European Arrest

Warrant, the role of the CPS and the NHS is chasing down the family.

There are some more pressing political things they have to deal

with as soon as possible. It has not been a good few days for the welfare

state. In Rotherham, we had the welfare state letting people down by

not stepping in on their behalf. In this story, we have the welfare

state doing too much, pressing themselves on the private lives of a

family who should have been left alone. Why were these people hounded

across the Channel by the welfare state when they were trying to do

the best thing for their child? Lots of questions. And I have to say that

over the last couple of nights, I have had to play devils advocate for

the hospital and they were doing the right thing for this child. But why

did the CPS become involved? Why did this become a police matter? And our

NHS, how is it able to exert that much political and judicial

influence? Now, this story, an issue that could be interesting, bearing

in mind that the police were involved in the story with the

Kings. And some other things... The police are telling victims to solve

their own crimes. It is absolutely extraordinary. And the person

running it says that a large number of crimes are being decriminalised

because the police are not dealing with them. That is very worrying. I

would like to think if I called the police, not only would they listen,

they would actually take action to solve the crime that has occurred.

But there are some crimes that have to be without a doubt investigated

by the police but if it is a minor crime, a vehicular crime or

whatever, this is... Again, I'm playing the devil 's advocate...

Perhaps there are some offences that are minor to the point where, you

know, the police cannot get involved completely? Minor

national government and police crackdown. It is interesting. The

turnaround in New York City under the rule of Rudolph Giuliani, it was

a zero tolerance policy. And the EU are trying to steal our kettles.

That is a crime, according to some. The Express. God bless them. We use

kettles to make tea. This is the very fabric of British society. What

is going on? A certain wattage is too strong for some devices and so

they have been outlawed. Will we have maters? The Tetley maters? ``

matyrs? This is a European assault on the very nature of British life

full of the right to a cup of tea without interfering busybodies. It

has to be said that this is not Brussels. We signed up to this. Yes

and these decisions must be made. This is playing devils advocate

but... LAUGHTER. This is a ridiculous headline, it really is.

What is the worst that will happen? An extra 12 seconds to boil your

cattle? Yes! It could ruin a cup of tea! The whole issue is undermining

the whole climate change philosophy or science. Headlines like this make

people think that this is nonsense. That there are things we can do in

our daily lives that can help change the speed of climate change.

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