22/12/2015 The Papers

camera. A lucky escape indeed. More on all of that in 15 minutes after

the papers. Hello, welcome to our look ahead to

what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me, journalist and

broadcaster Eve Pollard, and Guardian columnist. We will start

with a Financial Times, Revenue and Customs claims for Sellers on Amazon

and eBay are dodging VAT. Agencies are creeping up to half of the fees

paid by NHS hospitals for locum doctors according to an

investigation in the Telegraph. The metro says Christmas shoppers queued

for a six hour traffic jam to get out of the blue centre in Kent.

Figures showing more than 1 million migrants entered the EE you this

year make the splash in the express. That story on the front of the

Guardian, which carries a photograph of refugees arriving on the Greek

island of Lesbos, while the ten one says five of the biggest investment

banks paid no corporation tax last year despite making billions in

profits. UK military advisers are dispatched to Helmand province. The

Times says tens of thousands of union -- European Union officials

are to receive a pay rise of 100 million euros. We will start with

the Daily Telegraph, NHS hit by nurses pay scandal. This is to do

with locum agencies. I have to admire the Daily Telegraph, and

undercover story where they discover that a nurse who could be earning,

say 20, ?30 an hour, the actual agency are getting double that

often, because that is all she is getting but the agencies are

creaming off the top. When we are all worried about the national

health, and the Daily Mail, if you remember, had stories about the fat

cats at the top of the health business getting paid more than the

Prime Minister, now you find agencies are getting paid a fortune

for nurses. Nurses are not getting that money. The agency is. I have to

say, 20 years or so I was asking when I was still editing newspapers,

would I produce at that time, very old days, a newspaper just for the

national health that actually advertised jobs and actually you

could drop it from one hospital to another. Surely there is a website

you could make that could work, so you have to be qualified to go on to

it, and say I want to work as a nurse, but surely that could be done

rather than going round the back? Rather than going through an agency?

And I think Geremew... Hunt? Hunt! Much more than the drugs we might

need, the agencies are getting the money. Great story by the Telegraph.

Some weather on the way, this evening and overnight different.

One of the interesting elements of this is the investigation has

already been endorsed by Jeremy Hunt. He says this investigation

shows how some staffing agencies seek to turn big profits at the

expense of our NHS and hard-working taxpayers. It is evident as to why

we have introduced a tough new cap. There is an element of brass neck in

that because one of the reasons hospitals are having to pay Sony

agency staff is because they don't have the actual staff, and one

reason for that is because Jeremy Hunt says they have to cut it off

the health budget. He is not without sin here. So it is somewhat ironic

to see him talking in these terms when actually his finger prints are

on some of it! Don't you think, and we are already into a new

government, but virtually, but surely this is the time to stop

playing politics with the NHS. Sarah Wollaston, who is the chairman of

the health select committee, says the government should publish what

they pay the agencies and what the agencies then pay the nurses. Surely

we should actually stop playing politics, itch not be a left or

right thing, it should be transparent. As a country we all

feel we want the very best health service and the best value we can

get. It is now up to the government to worry about how to deal with

nurses and make it go public. But it is a market, companies get what they

can get and they can only charge those kind of fees because the

hospitals are so desperate to get the star. Journalists don't have

agencies that get them a job. You apply. We staff are newspapers. But

there must be a better way than going through an agency. I suppose

you might be hoping Mr Hunt has digestive this investigation by the

Telegraph and covering up with creative points. A newspaper that

the eve would edit. Is a pretty old-fashioned idea! But a website.

Some journalists would probe needed for peanuts. And you would leave

them. Not sure about that but I am very happy to help. Interesting, new

new committee film banned for being too religious. I ramble that story

not too long ago about cinema chiefs who were in trouble because they do

not allow a short film about the Lord's prey. I think the Archbishop

of Canterbury was involved of love was some criticism of him. The

Lord's Prayer. Now a similar row, this time a short film featuring

Mary, Joseph and the baby Jesus. It was for a campaign. A cinema has

reduced the show this as well. It is a private company, they allow to do

that. They don't allow any kind of religious film or message so it is

not just Christianity that is affected. But actually, someone was

saying earlier which reminded this had come to our mosque? Frankly you

are looking for your tissue, because you know will be a tear-jerker, you

are worried about where you put the popcorn. If it made a lot of people

who follow in a religious way, that would be great. I think it is

absolute wrong. We are a Church of England country, and think this idea

that we don't have any politics. Actually, if they took all these

ads, it perhaps it would be cheaper to go to the movies. You do feel

they might be oversensitive. Would you care? I wouldn't care. I have no

opinion. I would probably just think when is my film starting. That is

the thing. Is the bubble in front going to wriggle all the time? Onto

the Guardian. Afghan forces in Sangin receive food drops. Ten

military advisers from Britain have gone out of this area. This is what

is so terrible, had I had a son who fought in the army and died in this

area, to see this happening now must be heartbreaking. Obviously this is

a pretty difficult piece of land to hang onto. I do know that fighting,

armies, and the way it is configured, but obviously this is a

part of land that probably nobody wants but it moves to further

forward. The Taliban, we have almost forgotten about the Taliban, because

we have been so busy with Islamic State, but the Taliban are making

inroads. In a way I am delighted we are helping them. Without any doubt

our soldiers did die that it a very good job in this area in Helmand

province. But of course people are saying we brought the soldiers home

too soon and we should not have done this or that. I don't see how come

the famous poem about Afghanistan, nobody gets out alive. No one wins.

It seems to be the pattern, that we get embroiled and no one seems to

know how we get out, presumably because we had no plan when we went

in. I saw a magical and terrible thing about Raqqa the other day,

which showed the rot tunnels going all the way from Turkey to Raqqa. I

didn't know they existed, I presume the Army did but that is a pretty

hard thing to deal with. The problem is these are very difficult areas to

hang onto. Guys have got killed and for what? A very small number of

special forces going in this case but you do have the wonderful stop

the number of engagements we are being asked to be involved in seemed

to be growing. Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan now. How many people

have we got any army, are you going to join up? Not immediately, no, I'm

not sure that is quite my calling, but people do it and we are grateful

that they do, and we wonder whether we should be cutting them at this

point. All these foreign entanglements, you wonder whether we

should be cutting the Foreign Office. This particular area, I

imagine there are a number of soldiers in this area who have been

dying to go out, because they know how that works. They also know how

difficult it is, dealing with the Taliban. Your paper, the Guardian,

calls for David Cameron to step in after US bars British Muslim family

from going to Disneyland. This is the ordinary, we have all been

watching the various comments and antics from Donald Trump, about

banning all Muslims from America, anything that will never happen. But

you worry about what will the knock-on effect be, how will the

influence the thinking? You have a story, a British family from East

London who were going to Disneyland. For the very last minute they were

told they could not have these is, they were not allowed to board a

flight from Gatwick to Los Angeles. So that dream trip they had planned

was scuppered. There have been other cases as well, British Muslims

getting into the States. Everyone who has applied here for an American

Visa, you have to do it, you have to do it in advance. Have to have it

before you get on the plane. You have, because the British

authorities check you have. The left-hander is not working with the

right hand in America. I hope they have sorted it out and given them a

free trip. To the Metro very briefly, six hour nightmare the

shoppers, it will get even busier on Wednesday. Although I would hate to

be in that queue, and we keep hearing everyone is buying

everything on the web, isn't it great that people are spending?

After some years where their money was really tight and may couldn't.

Apart from the fact that we are spending 40 billion more than we are

actually taking in as households. It is all on tick. All on credit cards.

To the Financial Times. Zimbabwe turns to the Chinese economy in a

bid to revive its flattened economy. You can use Chinese money to buy

your products. It is surprising that there is nothing Robert McGarvey has

to do -- Robert Mugabe has to do. You feel we should be to bring some

pressure to bear. It just remind you of your impotence really. Where can

you get hold of it? They have written off 40 million in Zimbabwean

debt. Tourists can spend their currency there. Chinese have been

buying up lots of commodities in Africa. I am guessing Mugabe will

have a few notes hanging around that you can share. You will be back in

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