12/01/2016 The Papers

snooker, but he was far from his best. All that and the news about

Chris Froome and Andy Murray as well.

Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers

With me are Kate McCann, senior political correspondent

at the Telegraph, and James Lyons, the deputy political editor

Rather contrasting stories, it must be said. The Guardian and the Times.

The Guardian says that all sides in the doctors row are increasingly

optimistic they can do a deal and finish this to dispute over new

contracts and weekend working. However, the Times says the divide

between doctors and the government has increased. Doctors say they will

strike indefinitely after they refused to plead to cross a picket

line. Rather contrasting things going on and all sorts of

accusations, as usual. This is an issue that has been going on over

many years, so it is not surprising that there will be very strong

feelings about what should happen next and where we are in this

conversation. What is interesting is that if you look at the article in

the Times, there is a quote at the bottom saying that the prospect of

further strikes was raised. Nobody wants to see this continue

indefinitely, it says. That sounds like there is the possibility of a

deal, so it depends on how you look at this situation. Both sides, there

is a lot of rhetoric going on and lots of people saying we are right

and they are wrong... There is a lot going on. But I think it is one of

those things where it eventually there will have to be a deal. You

say that, but it has taken an awful long time to get to this point. And

now further strikes are being threatened, including a serious one

in February. And a stoppage at the end of the month as well. The

problem is that there is a lot of poor well and mistrust on both sides

in this dispute. -- ill will. I was so surprised to see the Guardian

earlier. The first major walkout in 40 years. There will have to be a

deal at some point but there are accusations about NHS bosses trying

to trick doctors into going back to work today with all sorts of scare

e-mails. The Daily Mail can be relied upon to pursue its own line,

I think. Striking dot is and a legacy of misery. -- striking

doctors. What is the burden of this story? You have to remember that

while we are talking about pay and people walking out and whether the

will or won't be another strike, at the heart of this issue are patients

who have had operations cancelled. Lots of people are talking about how

they were only told by text message that some procedures had been

cancelled. If you are waiting for a scan and you are worried about your

health condition, that will be a major issue for years. While it is

worth remembering that although 39% of doctors were at work today, there

were a huge amount of doctors who were not. And whether you agree or

disagree at what -- on what is going on, there are people who are being

affected for it but they did keep emergency services going on. And

this comes at the most precious point of the NHS. We are approaching

the middle of the winter flu season. Absolutely. Another story. Going

back to the Guardian. Most newspapers, most of the major ones

anyway, have this story. Ices blamed for ten deaths in Istanbul suicide

blast. -- ISIS. There have been a lot of bomb blasts in Turkey

recently and a lot of people killed, but now it is tourists. It appears

they were the target. This is an area where a lot of people go on

sightseeing tours. This is an area where you could rely on there being

many more tourists than people who would ordinarily live in Turkey. It

is worth saying, however, that Turkey have already identified,

apparently, that this was a suicide bomber from Syria and it is

interesting that they were able to do that so quickly. It is worth

asking questions about whether this person was on any kind of watch list

or whether there was any intelligence about what was going

on. We have said before that Turkey is struggling with the weight of the

migrant crisis and it is in a difficult position, really. And they

have spent a lot of time attacking the Kurds, the Turkish government to

seeing its enemy as the Kurds, whereas the Kurds are among the

people fighting ISIS. You also have to wonder what this might do for the

tourism industry. We have seen similar effects in Tunisia and parts

of Egypt. You have to wonder about the economic ramifications. Indeed.

The Express. This story keeps coming back to haunt us after what happened

around Christmas or New Year. Germans riot. This was a far right

demonstration that very clearly got out of hand in

being set on fire and hundreds of arrests. Cars

Clearly tensions are running extremely high there after the

influx of migrants. And Angela Merkel is under tremendous pressure.

It looks like her hand is being forced in all sorts of directions.

Making it easier to get rid of migrants caught doing bad things.

They can now be deported more easily. It is difficult to see what

she can do because I don't think this is about those attacks that

happened around Christmas. I think this is a much broader issue. It

must be said that this far right groups have never been particularly

welcoming towards migrants who have come into the country anyway on any

level, so there is an element of this which is using something which

is really and truly awful and people should be arrested and prosecuted

for, but as a way to say that refugees are not welcome at in

Germany. Angela Merkel is in a difficult situation because there

were a huge number of people who came into the country very quickly

and there is an argument to say... Invited them in. Perhaps they were

not prepared for the ramifications of that. But only 19 suspects have

been identified so far and there have not been any arrests. There is

obviously a long way to go before there is a feeling that the city is

if again for people who are going out at night. -- city is safe

again. The spectre of the far right rising up in Germany of all places

is terrifying. It is. But, you know, it will be interesting to see

what impact this may have on the negotiations that are happening on

the EU level about Britain's Place and membership. Whether this makes

Angela Merkel more sympathetic to British concerns about migration or

whether she finds herself on the back foot and it is harder to get

concessions. Another big issue on the horizon. Staying with the

Express. They do like health stories, but this one seems like a

good one. They do like a story about dementia, but this one looks like it

could be promising. They have a professor from University College

London and he says that by 2025, he hopes the dimension will be a

manageable condition a bit like diabetes. It could be managed by

lifestyle choices perhaps or medication. But this is interesting

because increasing numbers of people in this country are being affected

by dementia. It is a really awful disease because the decline can be

rapid but it can also be incredibly slow and at the moment there is no

real way of making people feel better about it. Any progress in

this area is really welcome. I think that dementia is the next... Similar

to cancer, there has been a lot of demand for a cure and focusing on it

in research. I think that we will see more and more articles like

this, hopefully, in the future. And it relates to what is happening in

the NHS, generally, because with more and more dementia patients,

there will be terrible pressures on the NHS in the years to come. The

people suffering and the wider economy, if I could put it as

bluntly as that... And there would be big savings if you could avoid it

happening anyway. It would be good for all concerned. The Times.

Pensioners freeze as energy companies chase profits. What is

this all about? As you will have noticed, it is quite cold. It is

certainly very cold in here. I don't know if you need 50p for the metre,

but... Just put another jumper on. This is a study about the numbers of

old people, almost 5 million, who will cut back on heating despite the

really bad weather because they simply cannot afford liberals. This

comes as the Energy Secretary is trying to get -- cannot afford to

pay the bill. This comes as Energy Secretary is trying to get fuel

companies to bring costs down. They all want that Ed Miliband's promise

to freeze prices would have had the reverse effect before the election.

She says that now that threat has gone away, they need to follow the

market. Wholesale prices have come down and only one supplier has cut

rules, and not I nearly as much as the wholesale price. -- one supplier

has cut bills. One older person dies every seven minutes from the winter

cold. Those sound like a desperate figures. Yes. And as James has

pointed out, it is shocking that wholesale prices have fallen so much

and yet companies, big energy companies, have not reduced their

bills. There is also a mine in this article from a report by MPs, which

will be released tomorrow. -- a line. People have been overpaying

Waterville 's. The industry regulator over estimated costs for

suppliers and so we all paid more than we should have a water. And now

they cannot get that money back and consumers will not get a refund. The

energy regulator has been under fire over several years for people who

are saying they have not done enough to bring down energy prices. The

Daily Telegraph. Oxford will not rewrite history, says Chancellor. Is

all about that stature of Cecil Rhodes. -- it is all about that

statue. This has been going on for a number of years. Demand for its

statues of Rhodes to be brought down. But it goes to a bigger point

about what university should be about and how tolerant universities

should be and who should be allowed to speak at universities. There has

been an issue around this conversation about people who have

extreme views on any spectrum, whether they should be allowed to

speak at universities or whether they should be barred or given no

platform, as it is called. This debate about whether universities

should remain a place where free debate should happen, even if you

don't really like the viewpoint. Yes. The pro- free-speech groups

popping up on campuses around the country. Lord Patten says education

is not indoctrination. History is not a blank page on which we can

write our own version of what should have been. Perhaps we should

remember the wrongs that have been committed. Let us finish with

looking back to the news that was dominating everything yesterday.

David Bowie, dying at the age of 69. The Sun has a nice line. -- the

Daily Star. This is about two Memorial concerts, which have been

announced. We don't know if there will be a big funeral for David

Bowie yet but this is a concert... Mick Jagger will be there, Paul

McCartney, Elton John and a galaxy of stars. The front pages David

Bowie's final photo shoot and I have to say that he looks remarkably

happy and pleased with his lot there. That is one of the things

that came out of the coverage yesterday, what kind of a man who

was. He did not make a lot of the fact that he knew that he had a

terminal illness. He kept it very quiet and was working right until

the end. That concert, where and when? New York, March 31. We have

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