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Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
With me are Matthew Syed, author and Times columnist, and Zamilla | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
Bunglawala, the former government policy advisor and academic. | :00:22. | :00:31. | |
Do you still play a lot of ping-pong? I have moved on to | :00:32. | :00:38. | |
tennis. Every so often, I get a chance to have a game. More on | :00:39. | :00:46. | |
tennis in a minute. I am still an Olympic weightlifter! Tomorrow's | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
front pages, starting with the Financial Times, reports that the | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
police are braced for more cuts to fund an extra ?12 billion for the | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
defence department. The Times says the fight against terrorism will be | :01:00. | :01:06. | |
at the ?178 billion defence overhaul tomorrow. The Merrimack Rogue also | :01:07. | :01:13. | |
goes with that sorry, -- story, focusing on elite troops. Claims | :01:14. | :01:22. | |
that there may be attempts to do something. The Telegraph said the | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
army may be restructured to get those two Stryker brigades. The | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
Guardian leads with news that Brussels faces an unprecedented | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
security lockdown because they had a serious and imminent threat. The | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
Daily Mail splashes on the refusal of leading UK cinemas to show an | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
advert featuring The Lord's Prayer. We will begin with the Daily | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
Telegraph. The headline, Army Stryker brigades to tackle terror. | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
This is a defence review to order a restructuring of certain units. What | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
is the proposal? It is extensive, partly to meet 2% of GDP as part of | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
the noted defence target, but ?170 billion on military equipment will | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
buy a lot of hardware. Partly, it is to tackle terror. 9000 extra | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
soldiers will be deployed for immediate deployment. That is quite | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
serious in terms of numbers, because we have seen serious cuts to the | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
military. What it doesn't talk about is how this will deal with | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
countering terrorism in the sense of disadvantaged youth, disengagement, | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
what it will do on the domestic level, which is important. Defence | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
forces in the Army internationally will be important and that budget | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
does tackle that, but it doesn't mention that in this article. I | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
think it will be interesting to find out that. How clear is it, whether | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
this is coming from politicians or from military leaders? I think a bit | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
of both. Clearly the government has to do a lot of things, improved | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
intelligence, pre-emptive action against radicalisation, but a lot of | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
the debate has moved on to what happens if, God forbid, there are | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
machine guns on the streets of London. 10,000 police, two crack | :03:14. | :03:22. | |
forces of 5000, instantly -- instantly deployed to shoot down | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
religious psychopaths if they end up in London. Another story is | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
improving the training of doctors and medics so, if they arrive on the | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
scene of a potential atrocity, they can deal with bullet wounds. It has | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
to be a multifaceted strategy, but this has to be a part of it. Whether | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
or not the other departments will think it is worth it, though. There | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
is only a certain amount of money to go around. It seems that certain | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
departments will struggle if the defence department get this cash. | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
Absolutely, I am sure the Chancellor is juggling in terms of what he will | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
spent on welfare, the NHS and police, which is the numbers that | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
keep coming up. Nationally, what are we going to do? Things like prevent | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
haven't gone down well. They haven't been successful. What are you going | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
to cut and spent on? We really don't know. It will be an interesting week | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
in terms of budgets. There are so many ways in which Paris is forcing | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
politicians to rethink so many aspects, in terms of migration, | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
border controls, how we police... Who we stop and who we search in | :04:30. | :04:36. | |
this country. I think it is important, not just that, but | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
potentially using British planes to bomb IS targets in Syria. Isil is a | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
crazy death cult, but it is sophisticated in terms of its | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
strategy, is use social media, the way its strategies have altered over | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
time to reflect the response. They want to build into a narrative of | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
crusading Westerners going after the Islamic world and I think it is | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
important to try and make sure that, when we make strategic decisions, do | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
what they don't want us to do. Or you are feeding into their strategy | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
of creating more wars and more disenfranchised people. The metro | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
says, ghost town, a picture of Brussels, in a third day of | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
lockdown. A soldier watching over a deserted street. Some kind of | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
operation going on close to the Grand Place earlier. It seems that | :05:32. | :05:38. | |
it passed without incident. They are really thinking they have got to | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
keep schools and the Metro shut tomorrow. It is astonishing to see a | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
western capital shut down. The headline and image are striking. It | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
is impossible to second-guess the politicians in conjunction with the | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
security services, because we haven't seen the intelligence. | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
However, just to go back to what I was saying, over reaction is a | :06:05. | :06:12. | |
dangerous thing. This is just manner to the Isis sympathisers. Our | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
capacity to defeat these people is constructed upon power play our | :06:17. | :06:24. | |
economic strength. -- partly. It will take a long time to make a | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
difference in terms of our relative advantage, but I think there is a | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
danger in terms of politicians being overly risk averse and shutting | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
cities down. If you keep doing that, that encroaches upon Eldon GDP. | :06:38. | :06:45. | |
People will say, if anything were to happen and they hadn't carried on, | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
why didn't you protect us? It is a difficult call. You are talking | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
about fear in the wake of the Paris attacks so it is natural that | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
civilians will feel different. This is unprecedented. The Grand Place is | :06:59. | :07:07. | |
a busy place, so the idea of an armoured vehicle, is that going to | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
make people safer? People are not meeting in public places. If you | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
look at that, Isis has already won. It is affecting our day-to-day | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
lives. It is important to take a measured approach. I don't want to | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
in any way diminish the tragedy perpetrated on the streets of Paris, | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
but the number of people who died is less than the number of people who | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
died in traffic accidents since the atrocity, less than the number who | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
avoid -- die through avoidable medical errors every week in | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
Britain. But if those bombs had gone off in different places, inside the | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
Stade de France, if the elite force hadn't stormed the Bataclan... I | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
couldn't agree more, and we know that traffic accidents typically | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
follow a predictable distribution. Accidents is different to people | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
being gunned down in public. I agree, but the emotional response | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
and potential for over reaction can make the problem worse. Police | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
braced for more cuts to find ?12 billion for defence. George Osborne | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
has said the police are still going to have to take their share of the | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
pain. Sure. It is strange when we asked seeing 100 and eight to the | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
Army and we are expecting the police to be cut. I don't know how that | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
will go down in the Treasury or the Home Office. Part of this is | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
important in terms of, we need better cyber security, more forces | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
on the seat, better intercommunity relations, and most of that is done | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
by the police. -- more forces on the street. The article mentions | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
counterterrorism rising by 30%. What exactly does that mean? Prevent has | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
been proven not to work, so what exactly will happen? Are we going to | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
raise divisions between Muslim communities and try to understand | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
them better? It doesn't deal with that. It doesn't mention that there | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
will be welfare cuts as well as business cuts, so it isn't just the | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
Home Office that will find it difficult. This is a big issue, but | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
the political choreography is interesting, George Osborne | :09:19. | :09:20. | |
delivering his statement on Wednesday, his budget potentially | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
falling apart, tax receipts down will stop will he renege from his | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
desire to have a ?12 billion surplus? But then the manoeuvring, | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
Theresa May, Boris Johnson, George Osborne, thought to be the top | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
successor, dropping behind in the poles. There is a lot of jockeying | :09:41. | :09:49. | |
in the background. More politics on the i. Stop sniping at Corbyn, | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
Labour grandees warned. He is in an interesting position. If we have | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
this vote on air strikes in Parliament, we don't know whether or | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
when, what does he do? He has always said no. He is in just an invidious, | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
self-made position. We all know he is against the strikes and I think | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
for legitimate reasons. He is worried about inflaming more | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
fanaticism, worried that, without a political solution, it won't make a | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
difference. He worries that air attacks on their own won't defeat | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
the enemy. Above all, he recognises that the problem is one of ideology | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
and religious psychopathology. You can't defeat that with bombing. | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
You've got to go after the fundamental problem, which is that | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
people believe we have the absolute truth because we have the hotline to | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
Allah. For me, it is a very tile but, if you don't agree with us, we | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
will kill you! -- it is a fairy tale. You have to get on top of it | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
with science, evidence. Just go back to the issue of Corbyn struggling, | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
he will look so silly if he is against it and the Shadow Cabinet | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
overruled him. Except if he says it is a free vote, then it doesn't look | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
like the party is divided and have defied him. That would probably be | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
the more tactical mood does not remove for him. But MPs also said | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
the UN sanctioning isn't clear so he might have legitimate ground to say | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
we can't go further. He doesn't have many friends within the PLP and he | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
constantly get negative briefing against him so it isn't quite fair | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
to say it is all his fault. The party itself is falling apart. Every | :11:34. | :11:40. | |
time I seem interviewed, I warm to his integrity. His knowledge that | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
knowledge is very broad and deep but so many of the key policies are | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
playing so badly with the public and I think they are wrong. The Daily | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
Telegraph, business dinners are not women friendly. Why not? Part of the | :11:54. | :12:00. | |
article is about how rarely ended these events are by Wigan, partly | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
due to timing, childcare, other commitments, but in language we call | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
it black tie. Why can't we call it black dress, black cocktail dress, | :12:12. | :12:19. | |
more inviting to women? Fair enough! I want to go! I am not a wearer... I | :12:20. | :12:27. | |
very wet -- very rarely wear a tie. I prefer informality. Dressing down. | :12:28. | :12:38. | |
An early evening... I prefer that. We liked all of the meals, | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
basically. I can understand why women think, 7:30pm, they can be | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
quite long, laborious. I've been to some which seized with ideas and | :12:50. | :12:56. | |
champagne but I get this sentiment. The quality of the ideas probably | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
deteriorates in inverse proportion to the amount of bubbly drunk. | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
Finally, we will hand the talking stick to Matthew's side. Djokovic | :13:06. | :13:12. | |
finishes with a smashing triumph. He has won again. Set up the story. He | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
has won the ATP world turf finals in London. It is a record fourth | :13:18. | :13:24. | |
successive victory. Djokovic, number one in the world with an | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
extraordinary track record. But, whenever he plays better run, | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
everybody in the crowd except as parents, his wife and coach are | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
supporting the other guy. -- whenever he plays Roger Federer. He | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
is an aesthetically pleasing player, his indomitability. I just wanted to | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
put out a little shout for Djokovic tonight. We will start rooting for | :13:47. | :13:57. | |
him, Martine. Who would you support, fed a ruck or Djokovic? I think it | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
was Roger Federer. You have to go with your gut. You don't know these | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
people. I haven't met them. You have to go with the way that they appear | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
to you, interviews, on TV, even their playing manner. That is | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
extraordinary. Roger Federer has occasionally been bitter after | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
defeat. Djokovic, when he lost to Andy Murray in the final at | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
Wimbledon, as he does whenever defeated, he was so gracious to Andy | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
Murray, the crowd and the nation. He is a real gentleman. We had better | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
help him out next time. We have had indomitability and psychopathology | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
in this hour. I wonder what they will bring back at 11:30pm! Stay | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
with us. Coming up next, Click. | :14:46. | :14:48. |