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:00:00. > :00:00.We will hear from him and we will bring you the latest from the

:00:00. > :00:14.Masters snooker, all in Sportsday in 15 minutes after the papers.

:00:15. > :00:18.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

:00:19. > :00:21.With me are Isabel Hardman, Assistant Editor at the Spectator

:00:22. > :00:25.and Jim Waterson, Deputy Editor at Buzzfeed.

:00:26. > :00:28.Time now for a reminder of some of the front pages.

:00:29. > :00:30.The Telegraph front page has the Conservative leader of the House

:00:31. > :00:32.of Commons, Chris Grayling, saying the European Union

:00:33. > :00:38.in its current state is disastrous for Britain.

:00:39. > :00:41.The Financial Times reports that employers may now have the right

:00:42. > :00:43.to read workers' personal emails and messages,

:00:44. > :00:46.following a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights.

:00:47. > :00:51.It describes it as a landmark ruling giving full access

:00:52. > :00:59.The i says the first genetically-modified embryos

:01:00. > :01:02.could be created in Britain within weeks, in what it says

:01:03. > :01:11.The Guardian has conducted a survey indicating Jeremy Corbyn enjoys

:01:12. > :01:15.overwhelming support among the Labour Party's grass roots.

:01:16. > :01:18.It also has news of some interesting gifts presented to the Royal Family,

:01:19. > :01:22.including a marzipan model of Berlin's Brandenburg Gate.

:01:23. > :01:25.The Mirror tells us that David Bowie has been cremated without any

:01:26. > :01:30.ceremony, even for family and friends.

:01:31. > :01:33.The paper says he made clear before his death that he didn't want

:01:34. > :01:37.The Scottish Daily Record has the story of David and Carol Martin,

:01:38. > :01:55.So, good to have you back with me. Let's begin. Isabel, you can take us

:01:56. > :01:59.first to the Times and their lead story is about the fact you are

:02:00. > :02:02.going to have to move into your school playground if you want to

:02:03. > :02:07.have a place. This is really interesting, 90 primary schools are

:02:08. > :02:10.refusing to accept pupils living 300 metres away and one school has

:02:11. > :02:15.shrunk its catchment area to 92 metres according to a survey. It's

:02:16. > :02:19.really interesting, middle-class parents living near the most

:02:20. > :02:22.desirable schools to secure places for their children have forced local

:02:23. > :02:32.authorities to shrink their catchment areas. It's unfair to

:02:33. > :02:34.blame middle-class parents for wanting the best thing for their

:02:35. > :02:37.children, but those parents who can't afford to pay school fees to

:02:38. > :02:39.get into the best state schools, under the system that has existed

:02:40. > :02:41.for years, are lumped with the school they are given for their

:02:42. > :02:45.children when every parent wants the best for their child, it's just what

:02:46. > :02:49.they can afford. The state school system shouldn't be set up to cater

:02:50. > :02:52.for those who can move to a desirable neighbourhood. Essentially

:02:53. > :02:58.you are paying school fees but you are doing it through another means.

:02:59. > :03:01.House prices. This all comes down to this point, the Local Government

:03:02. > :03:11.Association talking about the burden and the cost of providing these

:03:12. > :03:14.extra places needed. We have too many children and not enough spaces.

:03:15. > :03:17.Yes. That doesn't mean those schools have to be bad. There's lots of ways

:03:18. > :03:23.to look at it. It shouldn't be a case of pupils being terrified.

:03:24. > :03:28.People need another choice. Jim, why we are talking about it, staying

:03:29. > :03:32.with the Times -- while. Petrol may soon be cheaper than water. The

:03:33. > :03:40.price of Brent crude going below $30 a bowl -- $30 a barrel. If petrol is

:03:41. > :03:44.86p a litre then it is cheaper than water... I'm not sure what water

:03:45. > :03:49.they are drinking or what they are thinking of. It's a nice idea, the

:03:50. > :03:53.idea that it has gone that cheap that we can discard it in a bottle

:03:54. > :03:59.or something like that. It is great for us. Everyone in the UK who has a

:04:00. > :04:04.car feels a bit wealthier. It's terrible for countries relying on

:04:05. > :04:06.oil revenue, which includes a lot of places with teetering economies in

:04:07. > :04:12.the Middle East where we would prefer them to be stable with lots

:04:13. > :04:16.of income. It raises many issues. In Scotland, then you have Scottish

:04:17. > :04:19.independence, due in a few months if the "yes" vote would have gone

:04:20. > :04:27.through, what with the finances have been like if the oil price is like

:04:28. > :04:34.it is. What were you going to say? If it is cheaper than water then you

:04:35. > :04:39.could shower in oil. We were talking about what kind of oil, does it have

:04:40. > :04:44.fairy dust or do you have to go to special springs to get it? Vets have

:04:45. > :04:50.a look at the Guardian, their lead story is about support for Jeremy

:04:51. > :04:56.Corbyn -- let's. This is a survey they have done from 632

:04:57. > :05:01.constituencies in England, Scotland and Wales. It's really interesting,

:05:02. > :05:04.even though the opinion polls for Labour in the General Electric

:05:05. > :05:10.aren't great, Labour members are pretty keen on what Jeremy Corbyn is

:05:11. > :05:15.doing -- General electorate. MPs are saying they come back from their

:05:16. > :05:20.local constituencies and they are being told they have done a great

:05:21. > :05:26.job, they are saying that the press and the MPs are being very mean to

:05:27. > :05:29.Jeremy Corbyn. Even if the press are biased to Labour, it is one of the

:05:30. > :05:34.facts of life that the party needs to deal with. Entail it works out

:05:35. > :05:38.how to deal with that and the electorate's suspicions of its

:05:39. > :05:43.leaders then they won't get into power -- until. They have more

:05:44. > :05:48.complaints for the comments about Jeremy Corbyn underperforming rather

:05:49. > :05:55.than voting to bomb Isis in Syria. The action is less important than

:05:56. > :06:00.criticising their leader. Why are they constantly undermining him?

:06:01. > :06:05.Membership has almost doubled in the general election. These members are

:06:06. > :06:08.flooding back in. They are old members coming back in that

:06:09. > :06:12.understand the way Labour works. This isn't naive people, these are

:06:13. > :06:16.people who left because of the Iraq war and they want to get the party

:06:17. > :06:20.back to where they feel it should be. The problem for anti-Corbyn

:06:21. > :06:36.Labour MPs, of which there are many, is how to convince the members that

:06:37. > :06:40.things will be better in 2020. That was his unique selling point, a new

:06:41. > :06:44.kind of politics, they have to convince them of that. That will be

:06:45. > :06:49.a long-term project because the members don't trust the MPs, they

:06:50. > :06:54.trust Jeremy Corbyn. Fascinating. The Mail have that story we have

:06:55. > :06:57.been talking about, the European Court of Human Rights. Looking at an

:06:58. > :07:02.old case of someone who lost their job because he was apparently using

:07:03. > :07:08.personal e-mail when he shouldn't have been. Talk us through this,

:07:09. > :07:12.people will be worried potentially. He set up a Yahoo messenger account,

:07:13. > :07:17.the equivalent of Facebook or WhatsApp, some sort of messaging

:07:18. > :07:21.service. Fissette it up for work but was using it for private use -- he

:07:22. > :07:25.set. When his company checked whether he was doing his job

:07:26. > :07:29.properly, they went through his private messages and use them as

:07:30. > :07:33.evidence he wasn't using his job properly because there were 40 pages

:07:34. > :07:39.of messaging his fiance and his brother. That was in 2007. Finally

:07:40. > :07:44.we have a ruling almost a decade later that they were OK to do this.

:07:45. > :07:47.It's not that they are going to jump straight into your personal e-mail,

:07:48. > :07:51.but if you're logged in on a personal computer using an account

:07:52. > :08:00.then there is a certainly wait to which they have access. The Mail

:08:01. > :08:02.have a wise quote from an employment law specialist on the front page,

:08:03. > :08:04.saying the safest course of action from employees is avoiding using

:08:05. > :08:07.these platforms because who knows whether your boss is watching. If

:08:08. > :08:12.you don't want your employer to see it, don't send it on your work phone

:08:13. > :08:17.or computer. But what about if you have your own smartphone app and you

:08:18. > :08:21.are on work's time but it is your device and you might want to send an

:08:22. > :08:25.e-mail. You keep it in your pocket and you never let your boss know

:08:26. > :08:34.that you have got it and you will be OK. Text in the loo, or something

:08:35. > :08:37.like that. Put it under the table or something like that. There is a

:08:38. > :08:40.point where you are entitled to a private life even at work, so you

:08:41. > :08:44.need some access to be in touch with people on private issues, but where

:08:45. > :08:48.are the boundaries? I think with most bosses, as long as you are

:08:49. > :08:51.sensible and you don't leave too many breadcrumbs that they could

:08:52. > :08:57.follow to find the trail then you are probably all right. Don't do too

:08:58. > :09:01.much of your online shopping or anything like that there. You

:09:02. > :09:05.wouldn't want to work for a boss going through stuff like that. But

:09:06. > :09:10.in some firms, trade unions would be very worried like this, especially

:09:11. > :09:15.workers on low paid, on exploitative contracts. This is the kind of thing

:09:16. > :09:20.an unscrupulous boss could do to someone less powerful -- Lope. I

:09:21. > :09:26.thought the most telling item here is legal experts warn staff should

:09:27. > :09:31.now assume all their online activity is monitored. The safest approach,

:09:32. > :09:38.as you say, is be discreet and don't think they can't have a look. Let's

:09:39. > :09:43.have a look at the i. A picture of a baby with his cute chunky thighs.

:09:44. > :09:47.Quite a serious ethical question here because of a ruling that is

:09:48. > :09:51.about to be made one way or the other about whether genetically

:09:52. > :09:56.modified embryos could be created in Britain. The current law is that the

:09:57. > :10:00.embryos aren't allowed to live beyond 14 days. But this piece says

:10:01. > :10:05.the research has accepted that the research could one day lead to the

:10:06. > :10:08.birth of the first GM babies should the existing ban be lifted. It's

:10:09. > :10:19.really interesting about how much control we are going to allow people

:10:20. > :10:24.over how what type of baby they could have. You can ask people

:10:25. > :10:29.questions, do you want scientists coming up with embryos in a

:10:30. > :10:33.laboratory? No. Do you want a family making sure they don't pass on

:10:34. > :10:38.Huntington's? Absolutely. They are the same thing. Which framing do you

:10:39. > :10:44.like on a slightly contentious issue. Looking at the coverage of

:10:45. > :10:49.IVF babies, it was all wide-eyed and, what is this? Test-tube babies.

:10:50. > :10:55.Even this coverage here, it says a small step for GM babies. This

:10:56. > :10:59.initial decision is about whether the embryo can be genetically

:11:00. > :11:03.modified to look at the very early stages of the development of the

:11:04. > :11:08.embryo, especially looking at why women miscarry, so there's no

:11:09. > :11:11.suggestion of these being implanted, but it opens ethical questions about

:11:12. > :11:18.what could happen further down the line. To the Telegraph. This is

:11:19. > :11:21.Chris Grayling, who has been talking perhaps not hugely surprisingly

:11:22. > :11:28.about his views on the possibility of a Grexit. If we are looking at a

:11:29. > :11:31.referendum on EU membership in the summer or early autumn then

:11:32. > :11:35.ministers have to start positioning and those that want to be on the

:11:36. > :11:40.leave site have to start signalling they want to do this. Chris Grayling

:11:41. > :11:46.is the first to jump -- leave side. We can't criticise too much because

:11:47. > :11:50.we haven't got a deal yet. We are all pretending that David Cameron

:11:51. > :11:54.could come out for leave, although we know he won't. Tentatively he has

:11:55. > :12:00.to say in this potential situation I would probably said we should go

:12:01. > :12:04.against the EU. I think Chris Grayling is not necessarily at the

:12:05. > :12:09.core of the cabinet right now. I think he was sort of sidelined in

:12:10. > :12:12.the last reshuffle to become Leader of the House of Commons from Justice

:12:13. > :12:16.Secretary. It's interesting, the Telegraph piece covering his article

:12:17. > :12:23.says his article today is carefully worded, and it has not come as a

:12:24. > :12:28.surprise to number ten. He's not exploding in the media, he's being

:12:29. > :12:35.very careful, but he has long made noises about leaving the EU and he

:12:36. > :12:36.was one of the key figures to get David Cameron to suspend collective

:12:37. > :12:44.responsibility when the renegotiation finishes. On the front

:12:45. > :12:50.page he writes, even if David Cameron doesn't get the vote how he

:12:51. > :12:56.wants it, he wouldn't have to resign. He says it is wrong that he

:12:57. > :13:03.would have to resign according to David Cameron. Gently done. We know

:13:04. > :13:08.where that is going. Isabel, end us on this rather lovely news on the

:13:09. > :13:14.front of the Daily Record, ?33 million for David and Carol Martin.

:13:15. > :13:18.I love the fact the paper has two pictures of them looking really

:13:19. > :13:21.shocked and surprised and happy. When you see these stories you

:13:22. > :13:25.always think about what you would do with the money and what their life

:13:26. > :13:29.must be like, they always talk about small things because they haven't

:13:30. > :13:35.grasped what they have won. Champagne flutes and a new pair of

:13:36. > :13:40.shoes. They will probably buy a few homes but now it is the shoes. We

:13:41. > :13:44.are all tantalised by these life changing amounts of money. In an

:13:45. > :13:47.area hit by the floods, and the journalists said Will you give

:13:48. > :13:53.anything to the victims of the floods, and they said maybe. The Sun

:13:54. > :13:57.are saying they are going to give their fortune away. It must be

:13:58. > :14:03.awkward if you have already committed to saying something like

:14:04. > :14:07.that. They just want their holiday, doesn't mean they are bad people.

:14:08. > :14:12.The question about them changing, they said it might change what they

:14:13. > :14:16.will do but not them as people. It might change the people around them

:14:17. > :14:19.more than them. You wouldn't fear losing your job because you could

:14:20. > :14:24.pay your mortgage for the rest of your life. Fear of not having a pay

:14:25. > :14:28.cheque is probably quite a big thing for most. A psychologist earlier

:14:29. > :14:34.said it could be deeply demotivating not to have to work again but I

:14:35. > :14:42.could cope for a while. ?33 million? Why not? Many thanks to both of you.

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